Who Counts?
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Judith HauptmanJuly 3, 2010Theme: Social JusticeWe all filled out census forms this year, as stipulated by the United States constitution. The closing date was March...
View ArticleHow We Reconcile Grief and Comfort
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Marc WolfJuly 17, 2010Theme: Jewish ThoughtThe Hebrew month of Av, as the Rabbis have acknowledged and history has reinforced, is the month of calamity—the month of...
View ArticleThe Day After Destruction
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Mychal SpringerJuly 24, 2010Theme: Jewish ThoughtThe dreaded has happened. The inconceivable has come to pass. The Temple has been destroyed. Our center is no more....
View ArticleAdhering to God's Word
Collection: Torah CommentaryDr. Raymond P. ScheindlinJuly 31, 2010Theme: Jewish ThoughtIn Parashat Eikev, we hear the voice of Moses, that most eloquent of preachers, exhorting the Israelites as to how...
View ArticleEmerging From The Wilderness
Collection: Torah CommentaryProfessor Arnold M. EisenAugust 7, 2010Theme: Jewish ThoughtIn this week's parashah, the book of Deuteronomy leaves prologue behind as the Israelites come one step closer to...
View Article"Alas, Poor Yorick": A Grave Affair
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Robert HarrisAugust 14, 2010Theme: Jewish Practice"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his...
View ArticleThe Jewish "Lost and Found"
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Daniel S. NevinsAugust 21, 2010Theme: Jewish PracticeFew sights are as pathetic as the mountain of lost items accumulated at a summer camp or school at the end of the...
View ArticleThe Religious Value of Critical Study
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Eliezer DiamondAugust 28, 2010Theme: Jewish ThoughtParashat Ki Tavo begins with a description of the ceremony for bringing the first fruits to the Temple. As part of...
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God in Mourning
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Abigail Treu October 3, 2009Theme: Jewish ThoughtGenesis Rabbah 32:7 Another interpretation of “And on the seventh day the waters of the...
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Abraham the Wanderer
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Andy ShugermanOctober 31, 2009Theme: Jewish ThoughtGenesis Rabbah 39:1 “Hashem said to Abram: Go forth from your native land . . . ”...
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Sitting in God's Presence
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Abigail Treu November 6, 2009Theme: GodGenesis Rabbah 48:7 As he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. Rabbi Berekhiah said in...
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The Distance to God
Collection: Torah CommentaryRabbi Andy ShugermanSeptember 14, 2009Theme: GodGenesis Rabbah 60:14 And Isaac went out ‘la-suach’ in the field toward evening . . . (Gen....
View ArticleBoundary of the Wilderness
Collection: Torah CommentaryDr. Alan MintzJuly 10, 2010Theme: HistoryThe Torah is replete with lists of every kind: the generations before and after Noah, the enumeration of the tribes and their...
View ArticleInnovation and Tradition
Collection: Torah CommentaryProfessor Arnold M. EisenJanuary 30, 2010Theme: Jewish ThoughtRabbi David Hartman, in his book A Heart of Many Rooms, cites a midrash that draws a clear and (to my mind)...
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