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Richard Diamond

Jan 27, 2026, 12:51 AM

Eternal Revelation, Finite Hands

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On the Danger of Making Human Interpretation Untouchable Judaism begins with a refusal. In a world saturated with idols — carved gods, divine kings, cosmic hierarchies that made power feel inevitable — the Torah introduces a radical claim: the ultimate cannot...

Jan 26, 2026, 9:36 PM

The Blessing of Power

In last week’s Parshat Bo we have the last three remaining plagues God brings down on Egypt: locusts, darkness, and the slaying of the first born. What is the purpose of the plagues? If God only wished to bring...

Jan 26, 2026, 3:14 AM

Wishing Shabbat Shalom to Israel’s Kanaani Cats — From a Chabad Rabbi

In a person’s life, there are moments that at first seem accidental. A phrase. A joke. A glance. A small episode. But with time, you realize: nothing was random. Through moments like these, God sometimes quietly guides a person. Not through commands. Not through thunder. But through the heart. This is how...

Amanda Goldstein

Jan 25, 2026, 5:09 PM

When God Could Not Wait – Parshat Bo

"What would you grab if your house was on fire?" It's a classic icebreaker question, the kind asked at youth groups and dinner parties to reveal what people truly value. We imagine ourselves making rapid calculations - photos, heirlooms, the...

Jan 25, 2026, 4:16 PM

BO 2026—Induced darkness and the lamp in the home

BO 2026 — Induced darkness and the lamp in the home We don’t live in an age that lacks information. We live in an age that lacks inner edge. Light exists everywhere — on screens, in data, in words, in...

Jan 25, 2026, 7:55 AM

Speaking Lies to Power: On the Exodus and Social Justice

I attempt here to make sense of a fundamental yet often overlooked dimension of the exodus story: that it is premised on a ruse. In Ex 3:16-17, God tells Moses to convey to the Israelite elders that God has...

Jan 24, 2026, 3:57 PM

Parashah Bo — Existential lessons

PARASHAH BO — Existential lessons History doesn’t always advance in light. Sometimes the real beginning happens when the light is gone and you’re left with nothing but night — thick night, the kind that makes the air feel heavier than...

Jan 24, 2026, 12:53 PM

On a Future That Can Be Lost — and a Future That Can Still Be Saved Sometimes a person lives a long life. They have children. They have work. They are constantly moving forward. And yet — there is no future. This thought came to...

Richard Diamond

Jan 23, 2026, 7:07 PM

How Pharaoh resembles President Trump

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This Week, as Pharaoh Reappears, It’s Worth Naming Trump’s Pathology This week’s Torah reading reintroduces Pharaoh—not as a cartoon villain, but as a ruler who has become trapped inside his own compulsions. That framing, powerfully explored in Zohar Atkins’s recent...

Jan 23, 2026, 6:56 PM

Parashah Bo — Freedom born in darkness

PARASHAH BO — Freedom born in darkness History doesn’t always move forward in light. Sometimes it moves in the dark — the kind of dark where you feel stupid even hoping. Bo lives there. That second before dawn when the...

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