Oedipus, Terminator, Harry Potter — all show how trying to outsmart the future backfires. Shoftim says the same: “Be tamim with Hashem.” The real freedom isn’t knowing tomorrow — it’s trusting today.
Gratitude is easy. Action is hard. That’s why the Torah insists that seeing blessing means being a blessing.
When most people hear “fear of God,” they picture the same fear dictators like Putin or Kim Jong Un demand — the kind that crushes thought and freedom. But what if the Torah’s fear of God is the opposite — a force that empowers, enlightens, and sets you free?
In Parshat Yisro, we’re told to keep Shabbat because God created the world. But in Va’eschanan, we’re told it’s because we were taken out of Egypt. Why the shift? Is this a contradiction—or something deeper?
When I first moved to LA, I worked at a reality TV company. A client hated one of our segments, ironically, the part they had pushed for. Furious, they demanded […]
Aharon the priest ascended Mount Hor at God’s bidding and died there, on the first day of the fifth month in the 40th year of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. […]
Parsha’s Pinchas contains the first account of a woman asking to speak to the manager. Not just one woman, but five. The daughters: Machlah, No’ah, Choglah, Milkah, and Tirtzah stood […]
תָּמֹ֤ת נַפְשִׁי֙ מ֣וֹתיְשָׁרִ֔ים וּתְהִ֥י אַֽחֲרִיתִ֖י כָּמֹֽהוּ Bilam, the wicked prophet, famously wanted to curse the Israelites but Hashem changed his words and Bilam instead blessed them three times. The quote […]
Hashem said to Moshe and Aharon, “Because you did not believe in Me to sanctify Me in the presence of Bnei Yisroel; therefore, you will not bring this congregation into […]
“Korach took…” famously starts this week’s parsha. With 250 men, Korach confronts Moses and Aharon saying, “You have taken too much for yourselves since the entire congregation is holy and […]
Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 