This graduate course encourages students to identify issues in inter-faith communication, become aware of personal barriers, and develop skills for…
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Encountering the Other
This graduate course encourages students to identify issues in inter-faith communication, become aware of personal barriers, and develop skills for…
Terumah: Did God Create Humans or Did Humans Create God?
“Did God create humans or did humans create God?” That, said my study group, is a question posed by Parshat…
Praise God, Yishtabach Shimcha: Learn to See in a New Key
Praise. For God, that is. Two days ago, I thought I understood praise. But I was wrong. Yesterday, I learned…
Limits of Rationalism (Vayikra)
God tells Moshe: people will bring offerings: cattle, goats, sheep, birds, grain. Make sure Aaron and his crew know how…
Talking about God
I’m kind of an unreflective theist; I grew up hearing the word “God.” On Shabbat, my family sang, “On the seventh…
Where did that sermon come from, Rabbi?
Saturday January 1, 2005: My first day of work as a congregational rabbi. “You can lead part of the service,”…
Is Kabbalah a Universal Theology?
Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, has been handed down from Biblical times. It has appeared in different guises, expressed in the…
Crossing the Interfaith River
Each wisdom tradition, says Hassidic teacher Reb Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), vibrates at a unique frequency. Each tradition is a…