The Story We Tell About Ourselves (Bo 5780)
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The Weighing of the Heart (Vaera 5780)
Download the accompanying Family Edition here! In this week’s parsha, before even the first plague has struck Egypt, … Read more
Faith in the Future (Shemot 5780)
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Chanukah in Hindsight
History itself has a history. Our perspectives shift over time, and some moments may only seem meaningful in retrospect. … Read more
Not Beyond the Sea (Nitzavim 5779)
When I was a student at university in the late 1960s – the era of student protests, psychedelic drugs, and … Read more
A Nation of Storytellers (Ki Tavo 5779)
Howard Gardner, professor of education and psychology at Harvard University, is one of the great minds of our time. He … Read more
A Stiff-Necked People (Ki Tissa 5779)
Download the accompanying Family Edition here. It is a moment of the very highest drama. The Israelites, a mere … Read more
Mount Sinai and the Birth of Freedom (Yitro 5779)
The revelation at Mount Sinai – the central episode not only of the parsha of Yitro, but of Judaism … Read more
The Divided Sea: Natural or Supernatural? (Beshalach 5779)
The splitting of the Reed Sea is engraved in Jewish memory. We recite it daily during the morning service, … Read more
Against Their Gods (Bo 5779)
The ninth plague – darkness – comes shrouded in a darkness of its own. What is this plague doing here? … Read more