the art of torah

Torah teaches us a song that is not finished. It invites us to be co-creators...

Telling the Jewish story provokes more questions than it provides answers. And that precisely how...

When we go out from the fears and anxieties and narrow visions that constrain our...

The pursuit of happiness is found not in the endless chasing after things and experiences...

To experience the divine promise of settlement and fruition in the world requires our creating...

That which is unfamiliar, a mystery, leads us to an imaginative knowledge, through which we...

Set yourself aside. You will not perish. You will discover the promise. … Read More

Do you dream? In ancient cultures, dreams were thought to contain messages from the gods.…...

Ambiguity is not an obstacle to meaning. It is the very source of it. …...

When things go wrong, really really wrong, we may tend to look for salvation in...

Gratitude, compassion and commitment to others reveal a power that has always been ours: to...

We can have both a drive to create, to personalize, to express our individual insights...

Shabbat interrupts our experiencing the world only through a sense of lack and anxiety. It...

Freedom that brings peace is not mere escape from restraints. It is the ongoing refinement...

The flow of a free life is to return to the source of one's origin,...

To be underway is the path of possibilities, love and the creation of new life....

Holiness is not the ultimate, end state. It is a stage leading toward integration with...

Healing spiritual dis-ease involves both realignment with the source of creation and reconnection with community....

Mystery is not that which is unknowable, but that which is endlessly knowable. To live...

To overcome the need to avoid the inevitable fissures in life, to let go of...

An inspired life proceeds from a deep inner experience to a reshaping of one's character...

The most enduring wisdom in Torah is found not in the explicit black letters but...

Both tradition and innovation, convention and imagination, continuity and discontinuity are necessary for the journey...

At the heart of building a sacred community is weaving work, the interlacing of different...

The origin of our redemption lies not in an intervention from outside of our nature...