Dvir Cahana, at The Blogs

Jun 15, 2024, 12:11 AM

Calling All Rabbis: You Are Needed More than Ever

Many people believe that you can only judge the vitality of an institution by its success during its second generation of existence. At 25 years young, my Orthodox rabbinical school, YCT, is now officially in its second generation. YCT...

Nov 4, 2022, 12:11 AM

Emerging from the Flames

My grandmother, Alice Lok Cahana, Hinda Aliza bat Yosef, was thrown into the gas chamber. Though she was crunched between 200 terrified people, at that moment she was completely and utterly alone. Staring death in the face, she contemplated...

Oct 30, 2022, 12:01 AM

The Patria in our Patriarchs

In the opaque smoke of battered trust and unrelinquished uncertainty through the void of the pandemic, the upcoming 2022 midterm election serves as a momentary relief, suspending us outside of our worn pessimism. The ability to have a say...

Oct 28, 2022, 12:28 AM

Love, Ocean and Dove-otion

(The following is a constructed midrash of the final days on the ark) It was a brisk afternoon in late October. Noah looked out from his Teiva and noticed how the tips of the mountains had begun exposing their nibs...

Oct 26, 2022, 2:52 PM

A Guide To What Shouldn’t Be Perplexing

Va'Tetze Esh by Hagit Cohen from The Amen Institute's Artist Fellowship

Unpacking One Of Shlomo HaMelech’s More Peculiar Queries Though the four species are rich in meaning and carry layered sets of connotative significance, it is curious to read Vayikra Rabbah 30:14—when the midrash tells us that Shlomo HaMelech, in all...

About Me

Dvir Cahana is enrolled at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary. He founded the Moishe House in Montreal and sat on their regional advisory board. Dvir received Jewish Week’s 36 under 36 recognition for launching The Amen Institute, where artists and rabbis come together to inspire the creation of sermons and art work.