Jewish Learning for Every Journey
Jewish Learning for Every Journey
Question: For decades, I have put a lot of thought, energy, and financial commitment into environmental sustainability. Cemeteries, with their pristine, well-watered, always raked lawns, rub me the wrong way. […]
In this week’s Parasha, Vayigash, we learn about Jacob’s final journey: to Egypt. This journey doesn’t start in Egypt but in the dark, sacred pause just before it. In Genesis […]
Parashat Miketz almost always coincides with Hanukkah, and that “almost always” is itself a kind of commentary. It prompts the question: what happens when the Torah’s story of Yosef […]
The dreidel’s story is a great example of how Jews take something from the surrounding culture and spin it into something deeply Jewish. Historically, the dreidel began as a […]
On the first night of Hanukkah this year, as Jews gathered to kindle lights on Bondi Beach in Sydney, gunmen opened fire and turned a public celebration of Jewish […]
The Jewish calendar is packed with holidays, and while the secular dates for these holidays may shift from year to year, the Hebrew dates stay the same annually. Pesach starts […]
Dear Jonah Platt. Last night, I had a lot of trouble sleeping—and it’s all because of you! More on that in a moment. First, I want to sincerely thank you […]
I have always been puzzled by a story in this week’s Parasha, Vayishlach. In the Parasha, , we learn of the death of Rachel (Genesis 35:15-19). The text tells […]