Category: Judaism & Torah

The Kindness of Strangers (Chayei Sarah)

24th October 2021

In 1966 an eleven-year-old black boy moved with his parents and family to a white neighbourhood in Washington. Sitting with … Read more

18th October 2021

“Take your son, your only son, the one you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a … Read more

7th October 2021

In an extraordinary series of observations on this week’s parsha, Ramban (Nahmanides, 1194 – 1270) delivers harsh criticisms of Abraham … Read more

4th October 2021

Are we naturally good or naturally bad? On this, great minds have argued for a very long time indeed. Hobbes … Read more

27th September 2021

Welcome to the family edition for the upcoming days of Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah In this series, entitled … Read more

27th September 2021

There are words that change the world, none more so than two sentences that appear in the first chapter of … Read more

22nd September 2021

Welcome to the family edition for Succot. In this series, entitled Ceremony & Celebration: Family Edition, we share key … Read more

20th September 2021

Moses did not fade. That is the accolade the Torah gives him at the end of his long and … Read more

13th September 2021

When words take wing, they modulate into song. That is what they do here in Ha’azinu as Moses, with the Angel … Read more

6th September 2021

Welcome to the family edition for Yom Kippur. In this series, entitled Ceremony & Celebration: Family Edition, we share … Read more