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Dovid Vigler
Jul 30, 2024, 5:52 PM
Meditations on The Great Alaskan Salmon Run
No Matter Where Life Takes You—Don’t Forget Where You Came From It’s one of the most remarkable experiences I have ever witnessed—the Great Alaskan Salmon Run. On our recent visit to beautiful Juneau, Alaska, we encountered the extraordinary phenomenon of...
Jaron Treyer
Jul 17, 2024, 6:40 AM
Facing the Copper Serpent
On Sunday, this bus stop was the scene of a car ramming attack, a type of incident all too familiar in Israel. I spent hours waiting for a bus here. Last Shabbat, in synagogues around the world, we read: "Moses...
Dana Greitzer Gotlieb
Jul 17, 2024, 5:45 AM
Parshat Hukat: Breaking the Silence
Would you like to hear a story? This is a true story about me. So you can learn a bit about my journey and how it relates to our week's Torah portion. Do you remember when we were kids, people would...
Ben Einsidler
Jul 16, 2024, 5:23 PM
Bringing Forth Our Best Selves- Hukkat 5784
Our parshah this week, parshat Hukkat, is not, shall we say, the “sunniest” of parshayot. This week we learn of the strange ritual of the red heifer, to be performed when a person contracts impurity through contact with the...
Maury Grebenau
Jul 14, 2024, 10:28 PM
The Intellectual and Emotional Toll of Kitzur Nefesh
Rashi (Bamidbar 21:4) וכל דבר הקשה על אדם נופל בו לשון קצור נפש, כאדם שהטורח בא עליו ואין דעתו רחבה לקבל אותו הדבר, ואין לו מקום בתוך לבו לגור שם אותו הצער Every challenging thing for a person is captured with...
Kenneth Cohen
Jul 13, 2024, 9:51 PM
Rewarded for Faith
The Mitzva of the פרה אדומה, the Red Heifer, is considered the most difficult commandment of the Torah. It is in the category of a “Chok,” which means that we are not meant to understand it. Other examples of Chukim,...
Jonathan Sacks
Jul 12, 2024, 11:07 PM
Descartes’ Error (Chukat, Covenant & Conversation)
In his 2011 bestseller, The Social Animal, New York Times columnist David Brooks writes: We are living in the middle of the revolution in consciousness. Over the past few years, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, and others have made...
Rachel B. Posner
Jul 12, 2024, 6:29 PM
Parshat Hukat: Shades of Grief
My father in law died in an ICU in Portland Oregon on October 7th. In the last hours of his life, I sat with him chanting psalms, unaware of the horrors unfolding for our brothers and sisters in Israel....
Steven Zvi Gleiberman
Jul 12, 2024, 2:55 PM
Don’t Cancel People
A person was driving down the road when he noticed a car pulled over on the side of the road. This person, an observant Jew, pulls over to help. He asks the man, a secular Jew, what the problem...
William Hamilton
Jul 12, 2024, 1:32 PM
Answering Antisemitism
“I thought I overheard the word 'Nazi'” Julia Jassey recalled from the basement of a Student Hall at the University of Chicago. It was her first week on campus and she had decided to join the French Club. “I...
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