Turning and Returning: Forgiving God, Forgiving myself
I don’t think I thought about God Or self transformation Or return Or love Instead there was guilt and shame Appraisals Scales and...
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Sep 186 min
Parshat Ki Tavo: Can we tell a Bigger Story ?
This week, my brother married his childhood friend of many decades. Despite, and perhaps even because of, their long journey and the...
Sep 66 min
Parshat Shoftim: Loving Torah More than God
One of the earliest post-Holocaust stories, “ Yossl Rakover Speaks to God ” by Zvi Kolitz, is a visceral and raw account of the ramblings...
Aug 295 min
Parshat Re'eh - Which Mountain Will You climb?
וְהָיָה, כִּי יְבִיאֲךָ ה אֱלֹקיךָ, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ--וְנָתַתָּה אֶת-הַבְּרָכָה עַל-הַר גְּרִזִים,...
Jul 316 min
Parshat Matot Masei : “Are your brothers to go to war while you stay here”: I or We?
It seems an odd way to conclude the book of Bamidbar. The Parsha covers laws about oaths and vows, the request of the tribes of Reuven,...
Jul 236 min
Parshat Pinchas: Breaching Boundaries and Conflict Resolution - 17 B’Tamuz and Today
Today we live in a world riddled by conflict on the global, national and communal level. The most pressing question for contemporary...
Jul 105 min
Parshat Chukat: The Power of Silence
The philosopher Theodor Adorno speaks about the notion of silence as an absolute expression of permanence. The silence that followed the...
Jul 15 min
Parshat Korach: On echo-chambers. polarisation and the importance of arguing well
Everywhere you go in Israel, you will see the sign "יחד ננצח" - together we will win. Many speak about the imperative to unite and speak...
Jun 255 min
Shelach Lecha: Falling in Love Again
For several years before October 7th, we had fallen out of love with our people and our land. As the Israeli singer Hanan Ben Ari implied...
Jun 198 min
Parshat Beha’alotecha: The possibility at the heart of Crisis
Bnei Yisrael are ready to enter the land. The men have been counted for battle. The tribes are encamped around the Tabernacle. The...
Jun 58 min
Parshat Bamidbar: The hostages or the war?
There are many today who frame our current reality as either/or. Either the hostages OR the War. Either we save those suffering...
May 298 min
Parshat Bechukotai: Is the model of sin and punishment still relevant today?
What is religion? We tend to think of being religious as having belief in and being dependent on God, but I would argue that much like...
May 215 min
Parshat Behar (Bechukotai): What sits at the heart of an ethical society?
The parshiot of Behar-Bechukotai are often read together, but as this year is a leap year they are read separately. However, there is a...
May 99 min
Parshat Kedoshim: On Antisemitism, Spinoza, Holiness and the Modern Days of Awe
Many people have been pondering the connection between the woke movement in America and fundamentalist Islam. How have they made such...
Apr 191 min
Pesach: On Hidden Miracles and Righteous Women
In this video blog on Pesach, in light of the last week, I explore the idea of our relationship to miracles - both in the Bible and today...
Apr 37 min
Parshat Shemini: How are we meant to draw close to God?
Sefer Vayikra provides answers to difficult theological questions. How do you come close to a transcendent being? In what way can we...
Mar 217 min
Sefer Vayikra: On The War, the Hostage Families and the Jewish Legacy of Hope
Since the start of the war, Galatz (the army radio station) end their morning broadcast by naming one of the hostages and inviting a...
Feb 156 min
Parshat Terumah: I Give therefore I Am
AT the start of the war one day I came home to find that my 7 year old had found a box and spent hours decorating it, writing a message...
Jan 223 min
Parshat Beshalach: The women who dare to hope, in those day and in ours
בזכות נשים צדקניות ישראל נגאלו ישראל ממצרים Yes, in the righteous women’s merit we were redeemed. They are the women of faith, not...
Jan 106 min
Parshat Vaera – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
When I went to visit the shiva of Amichai Oster ז"ל, the beloved son of Marcy Oster, one of my long term students, his fellow army unit...
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