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Gedalya Sloshay

Jun 2, 2026, 5:39 PM

One Law, One People

What the Korban Pesach teaches about belonging, difference, and unity In this week’s parsha, a striking detail appears in the laws of the Korban Pesach. The Torah discusses a convert who joins the Jewish people and wishes to participate in the...

May 24, 2026, 6:37 PM

The Blessing of Being Seen

We live in a time of relentless exposure and deepening invisibility. Never have human beings been more publicly visible to one another. We broadcast our thoughts instantly, document our lives continuously, and carry audiences in our pockets. We know one...

Richard Diamond

May 23, 2026, 1:08 AM

What Good Are 613 Commandments If We Fail the One?

There is a comforting story we tell ourselves. It holds that suffering ennobles, that the persecuted become the most reliable guardians against persecution, that a people who endured the full inventory of human cruelty would, of all peoples, carry...

May 18, 2026, 8:21 PM

Everyone Plays a Part- Bemidbar 5786

One of the things I love about my job is that there’s no such thing as a “typical” day. Being a pulpit rabbi is not your typical 9-to-5 job like many others. Depending on the schedule and needs of...

May 17, 2026, 8:20 AM

When Walls Become a Window: How Light, Vision, and Torah Change Reality

The world appears solid, fixed, and immovable. A wall is a wall, a window is a window, and the difference between them seems obvious: one blocks vision, the other allows it. Yet upon closer examination—through both modern physics and...

May 17, 2026, 3:24 AM

Buried With Her Tehillim

At my grandmother’s funeral this week, I noticed some movement near the grave. At the moment I did not realize what it was. Only afterward did I find out what had happened. They had buried her together with her...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

May 17, 2026, 12:20 AM

Parashat Bamidbar: The Wilderness as Destiny

Sefer Bamidbar (Numbers) teaches us that there is no shortcut to genuine religiosity. To achieve it, one needs to dwell for years in a desert, full of dangers; wild animals, storms, war, and unbearable heat. It is surely not by...

May 15, 2026, 6:56 PM

Bamidbar: ‘Numbers’ Isn’t Our Translation

Parshat Bamidbar begins with a count. Tribe by tribe, family by family, the Torah constructs a census of remarkable precision. Yet Chazal simultaneously express discomfort with counting Jews directly, associating it with plague, vulnerability, and a kind of spiritual...

May 15, 2026, 5:49 PM

Parashat Bamidbar: Order in the Void

✦ ✦ ✦ The desert has no edges. Wind erases footprints before anyone thinks to call them a path. And there — where there are no cities, no walls, no fixed horizon — the voice arrives. Without disturbing the dust. It...

Mordechai Silverstein

May 15, 2026, 5:44 PM

Rallying Around the Flag

Since time immemorial, flags have served as markers of identity, unity, and purpose. At the opening of the second chapter of Bemidbar (Numbers), God commands the children of Israel to organize themselves by tribe around the Ohel Moed (Tent...

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