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Jun 4, 2026, 8:03 PM

The Heavenly Horizon: A Spaceman’s Shabbat

Rabbi David Shloush, 2008 (Wikipedia, https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Rabi_david_shloush.jpeg, Public Domain)

On 1 April 2026 – the eve of Passover 5786 – NASA launched a crewed spacecraft on a flyby trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. This was the first crewed flight near the Moon since Apollo 17...

Annette Poizner

May 27, 2026, 8:36 PM

The Long Road…Through Another Civilization

For decades, Jack M. Daniel immersed himself in one of the world’s great civilizational knowledge systems. As a practitioner and scholar of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he devoted years to studying a worldview shaped by pattern, polarity, movement, balance, symbolism, and...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

May 15, 2026, 5:51 PM

Very Short Story: Your Nameless Sweets

My favorite dessert stood before me, the smell of fresh pastry along with the creamy scent of its cheese. I wanted to have some, but decided not for religious reasons I felt more ardently to observe I politely declined,...

May 14, 2026, 9:54 AM

The Letter Zayin and Revelation — The Work of Sivan

Every Hebrew month carries its own spiritual rhythm—a distinct energy inviting deeper self-understanding. After the liberation of Nissan and the healing journey of Iyar, Sivan arrives with a higher calling: revelation. This is the month when freedom becomes covenant,...

Richard Diamond

May 13, 2026, 9:16 PM

What the Kabbalists Knew Before the Physicists Said It

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The Big Bang names not a first moment within time but the ontological inception of this cosmological regime — the constitutive actualization of spacetime, its laws, and its initial conditions, in atemporal dependence on the structure of possibility itself. That...

Shanee B. Michaelson

May 12, 2026, 7:11 PM

BaMidbar: Mapping Our Relationship

There are relationships built out of similarity, and relationships built out of translation. Ours has always felt like the second kind. My husband and I came from neighboring worlds that somehow still needed interpretation. We both grew up in Los...

May 5, 2026, 12:37 AM

In Honor of Lag Be’omer: The Case For Mysticism

It always saddens me when people conflate creativity with authenticity, as is frequently done by the proponents of Rambam’s theology. Maimonidean thought is creative but that does not mean that it is also necessarily authentically Jewish. I believe that Rambam’s...

May 4, 2026, 6:10 AM

The Case against Cremation and for Traditional Burial

The Midrash tells: When Cain killed his brother Abel, it was the first death the world had ever known, and Adam and Eve were overcome with shock and grief. They sat beside Abel’s lifeless body, weeping and unsure what...

May 3, 2026, 6:29 AM

Lag B’Omer, Turn On Your Love Light!

One of my favorite songs that the Grateful Dead used to cover is “Turn On Your Love Light,” written by Joe Scott and recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961. The chorus of this composition is powerful: “Turn on your...

Annette Poizner

Apr 29, 2026, 8:05 AM

From Parts to Patterns: Jewish Psychology, Chinese Wisdom, and the Self

Across the history of psychology, one idea appears again and again: the human psyche is not singular. It is composed of parts. This insight appears across cultures, but in modern Western psychology, a notable number of influential parts-based models were...

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