the art of torah

PARSHAT EMOR 5786 WHISPERS OF LIFE

To rely solely on strict judgment to repair the effects of life's inevitable unfairnesses exposes...

PARSHAT ACHAREI MOT-KEDOSHIM 5786 TO SEE THE STRANGE AS ONESELF

More than shared interests, backgrounds and points of view, it may be our strangeness to...

PARSHAT TAZRIA-METZORA 5786 THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE

The struggle for life is less about defending ourselves from attack and more about increasing...

PARSHAT SHEMINI 5786 THE WAY TO THE FUTURE

The way to the future is paved by overcoming our impediments to intimacy.… Read More

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PASSOVER’S JOURNEY

“In every generation, you must see yourself as if you yourself came out of Egypt.”...

PARSHAT TZAV 5786 WINGS OF HOPE

A state of liminal flow, that between wakefulness and dreaming, can release us from a...

PARSHAT VAYIKRA 5786 LIGHT FROM DARKNESS

The Mishkan and its rituals were designed to help us overcome the distance we might...

PARSHAT VAYAKHEL-PEKUDEI 5786 WISDOM’S HOUSE

To imagine ourselves - and those around us - as capable of so much more...

PARSHAT KI TISA 5786 A KNOT OF MYSTERY

To say that one has a knot in one’s chest or stomach is to describe...

PARSHAT TETZAVEH 5786 AN ANGEL OF EARTH

A home that welcomes the unexpected, the visitor, is one constructed for glory and beauty.…...

PARSHAT TERUMAH 5786 A TEXT THAT FLICKERS, A DOT THAT WANDERS

The path towards peace, fulfillment and responsibility involves shedding absolute certainty and the urge to...

PARSHAT MISHPATIM 5786 TO BEGIN WITHOUT BEGINNING

Sacred beginnings are not based on a knowledge of our destination. They are driven by...

PARSHAT YITRO 5786 TO SET THE SOUL VIBRATING

The awareness of what we share with one another doesn't lessen what we each have....

PARSHAT BESHALACH 5786 THE LONG, SHORTER WAY

The path of patience, effort and challenges may seem longer than one based on shortcuts...

PARSHAT BO 5786 FROM FEAR TO AWE

To move from fear to awe is to free ourselves of an isolating focus on...

PARSHAT VAERA 5786 THE BREATH OF REDEMPTION

To breathe unconstricted from fears and pains of the past and anxieties about the future...

PARSHAT SHEMOT 5786 THE MYSTERY OF BEING

Pharaoh does not know Joseph, the one who saved Egypt from destruction. Israelite reunion and...

PARSHAT VAYECHI 5786 A RESILIENT LIFE

A resilient life is one that returns again and again after loses and setbacks to...

PARSHAT VAYIGASH 5786 RING THE BELLS

It is not those who profess perfection who create a better world. It is those...

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RING THE BELLS: Winter Solstice

Here is an offering for this week of winter solstice, when we are inspired to...

PARSHAT MIKETZ 5786 SHATTERING AND HOPE

Memories are constructed framings of what we have experienced. Our brains can reframe those which...

PARSHAT VAYESHEV 5786 ACTS OF LOVE

The way of love has no certainty of a specific outcome. It is a path...

PARSHAT VAYISHLACH 5786 A LOVE SUPREME: THE BLESSING OF UNCERTAINTY

The blessing of uncertainty is the opportunity to discover what lies beyond the limits of...

PARSHAT VAYETZEI 5786 WHERE TO FIND HOPE

IN HONOR OF THANKSGIVING, WHICH ENCOURAGES US TO GATHER AROUND A TABLE WITH FAMILY AND...

PARSHAT TOLDOT 5786 THE BLESSING OF GENERATIONS

The way to the promise of fulfillment, fruition and peace requires an un-knowing of those...