What's Love Got to Do with It?
On the connection between Song of Songs and Pesach By Rebecca Chess Spring is here! And thus Passover is fast approaching. We prepare our...
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Robindra Nath Banerji
- Apr 4, 2022
- 3 min
Drash It and Receive A Reward!
This week’s parshah, M’tzora, is one of the most weird and unrelatable in the entire Torah. It deals primarily with three subjects:...
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Rebecca Chess
- Mar 8, 2022
- 3 min
Leviticus: How Do we Deal with Difficult Texts?
Rebecca offers us suggestions and tools to help us dive into challenging texts, whether thats in Leviticus or beyond.
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Robindra Nath Banerji
- Feb 16, 2022
- 7 min
Ki Tisa: Casted Bodies
It’s radical to read Torah to its roots. When the Kabbalists imagined the Tree of Life, they placed its roots in the world of...
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Max Antman
- Feb 7, 2022
- 5 min
Widening the Circle
Contributing writer Max Antman relates Parasha Tetzaveh to Black History Month considering legacy as motivation for progress.
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Rebecca Chess
- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
Finding Solace in the Psalms
Rebecca reflects on their feelings and where they are finding comfort after the events at Beth Israel in Colleyville Texas.
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Rebecca Chess
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
The First Human
This week is transgender awareness week, it is the week leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day that our community...
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Liana Wertman
- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
Finding Sarah
Many people know of the story where our Patriarch Jacob gets the name Israel, but allow me to share it again here. In Genesis Chapter 32,...
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Liana Wertman
- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
Leah, Through Her Children
"Now, seeing that Leah was disfavored, HaShem opened her womb, while Rachel was childless." (Genesis 29:31) Leah was given to Jacob...
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Julia Berg
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
We Are B'nei Rivka • Parshat Toldot
We descend from her. We would be nothing without her. To this day we remember her, though probably not as often as we should. She is the...
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