Complexity. What are your strategies for holding it? Especially when grief, rage, and helplessness push your thoughts in every direction?…
Jeremiah: We are Clay in Your Hands
Jeremiah: his prophecy returns in poetic form on Yom Kippur. In the Hebrew piyyut, liturgical poem, Ki Hiney Kachomer: We…
Vayikra Leviticus: Five Gates
Vayikra: Flawed but Idealistic Vayikra – Leviticus. A flawed attempt to set up an ideal society. Some of its flaws…
Home of Your Soul
Last week, I got an urgent text from one of our offspring. The text said: I’m spiraling a bit about…
Dayenu: Radical Gratitude
Dayenu —enough! It’s an expression of radical gratitude. And a good foundation for the work of teshuvah—repentance, repair, return. I…
Who Shall I Be This New Year?
Here is a New Year teaching for Rosh Hashanah from Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna. With a brief commentary,…
Barbie: Philosopher & Activist
Barbie alert! I liked the movie. But I did not like the ending. Because it is too much like life.…
Multi-faith: Jews & Christians
Multi-faith philosophy. Moses seemed to have one. And so do I. So here are two offerings on a multi-faith theme.…