Seventy Faces of Torah

Community Blog Can There Be Joy Amidst Vulnerability?

The Torah makes it very clear that we are to be joyful on Sukkot. We read in Deu...

Rabbi Adina Allen

Genesis We Are Created Creative

(Parashat Beresheit, Genesis 1:1-6:8) Beresheit Bara Elohim, In the beginning, G...

Rabbi Brian Besser

Holidays You Shall Have Nothing But Joy

Sukkot Yom Kippur is the most ethereal of Jewish holidays. On the holiest day of...

Rabbi Michael Rosenberg

Holidays Hypocrisy, Boundaries, and the Mitzvah of Part-time Piety

The Days of Repentance Years ago, while walking back to my college dorm room fro...

Deuteronomy I was not at Sinai

Parashat Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20) The people stand at Sinai as would-be...

Rachel-Adelman

Deuteronomy “My Father Was a Wandering Aramean…”: The Ethical Legacy of Our Origins in Exile

(Parashat Ki Tavo, Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) Through two thousand years of diaspora...