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The Torah portion we read this week is not easy to absorb. It is one of two places in the Torah where G-d describes the severe consequences of sin....
G-d asks us to journey through life believing that our fellow is golden—to see people through their strengths rather than their faults. Sadly, we...
This week’s Torah portion describes the intricate rituals of Yom Kippur. On this singular day, the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies five...
This week’s Torah portion speaks of the mysterious lesions that appeared on the skin of those who trafficked in gossip. Their punishment was at once...
When we raise the matzah at the Seder table, we are tuning into two contradictory experiences. First, we encounter the matzah as the “bread of...
When Moses arrived in Egypt after sixty years of exile, claiming that the G-d of their ancestors had summoned him to liberate the Hebrews, a...
On the first day of the month of Nissan, fifteen days before the Exodus, G-d said to Moses, “This month, you and I will be redeemed, for we will be...
What is worse than a philandering marriage therapist, an obese dietician, or a lying ethics counselor? A conceited man of G-d. The two are mutually...
Sometimes we quietly wonder whether life is fair. Others seem to glide from one simchah to the next, while our own milestones arrive tangled in...
This week, we study the vestments worn by the High Priest as he performed his service in the Temple. The High Priest represents the epitome of...