Chanukah, a REAL holiday. — By Ben
Chanukah is a lie. Or rather that’s what I came away with after a seminar taught at my reform Temple when I was 12. I don’t remember much, I just […]
Chanukah is a lie. Or rather that’s what I came away with after a seminar taught at my reform Temple when I was 12. I don’t remember much, I just […]
If you read my FB posts, you will see just how brutal a year 2016 has been, especially in the world of music. Personally, I am quite happy to see […]
This week’s Torah portion, parsha Vayeishev, begins Joseph’s story. And it’s quite a story at that. There’s betrayal, seduction, a prison set piece, some dreams sequences, and (of course) mistaken identity. But the event […]
“We all have two lives. The second one begins when we realize we only have one.” (Rabbi Shlomo Seidenfeld) As we approach the end of the secular year and the […]
I know what you’re thinking. I’m going to go into Jules’s use of Ezekiel 25:17 as a speech before he “takes care of” his clients. Maybe go into how he dissects it […]
“You think you have no energy now? Just wait…” I am nine months pregnant with my first child and am scratching my head as to why this well-meaning person thinks […]
“There are 70 faces to the Torah” -Midrash As the Midrash is pointing out, there’s no one way to read the Torah. There’s gematria, Aggadata, the four levels of understanding, Rashi’s […]
Stress… Anxiety… It is an all-consuming misadventure. How hard is it to think of anything else when stress reigns supreme? We wake up anxious, spend our day in the same […]
In this week’s parsha, we have the infamous deception of Yitzchak by Yaakov for the coveted brucha. It’s a particularly troubling passage as it paints (without proper interpretation) our forefather in […]