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Hande Gençünal

Oct 31, 2026, 5:34 PM

The Glass Is Ours, the Well Is His, on Vayera

There is something I have felt and wished for since I was a child. When I hand even a glass of water to someone who comes into my life, I want to be able to give it as though...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

A Pleasure We Share: Why a Pharaoh Appreciated God

Judaism, in every sense, encompasses so many different cultures - perhaps because what defines Jews most of all is a set of values, more so than we are a culture or a religion (when you consider the different traditions...

Hande Gençünal

Oct 27, 2026, 7:04 AM

The Shame Hidden in the First Word 2

I ended the first essay with a hope about stepping out from among the trees. A person can only come out of hiding, I said, once they feel they have been clothed with love. I wrote that the last...

Oct 27, 2026, 1:02 AM

The Torah Holds the Hidden Quantum Secrets of the Universe.

The Zohar condenses an entire cosmology into a single luminous sentence: "God looked into the Torah and created the world; man looks into the Torah and sustains the world" (Zohar II, 161b). The underlying principle is that the Torah...

Hande Gençünal

Oct 24, 2026, 11:34 PM

Above the Stars

The first words spoken to Avram are not a direction. They are a list of departures. Lech lecha me'artzecha umimoladetecha umibeit avicha. Go from your land, from your birthplace and from your father's house. There is something strange about...

Hande Gençünal

Oct 22, 2026, 11:43 PM

The Shame Hidden in the First Word

The Torah keeps a secret in its very first word. Bereshit. In the beginning. In the Tikkunei Zohar, the letters of this word are rearranged, and two other words emerge from within it. Yirah and boshet. Awe and shame....

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 21, 2026, 1:08 AM

Parashat Lech Lecha: The “Why” You Are Your Greatest Spiritual Master.

A magical characteristic of life is that even when you think your faith couldn’t possibly be stronger and is arguably the strongest in the world, it can still increase! Everyone knows about the riots in Paris that started last Saturday...

Hande Gençünal

Oct 19, 2026, 7:41 PM

On the withdrawal of the Infinite and the space that love leaves behind When you set a compass on a sheet of paper, the sharp point goes in first. The circle comes later. Yet the whole measure of the circle,...

Bruce D. Forman

Oct 16, 2026, 11:54 PM

The Death Penalty: What Judaism Knows About Justice and the Power of Restraint

The recent controversy surrounding the suggestion of a public execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of murdering 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, has renewed interest in capital punishment. The Trump administration’s proposal to livestream...

Hande Gençünal

Oct 16, 2026, 8:51 AM

On the smallest letter and the whole that a broken thing remembers Whatever letter a scribe is about to write, the pen first touches the parchment as a single dot. That dot grows, stretches, bends, and becomes an alef, a...

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