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Oct 10, 2025, 7:07 PM

V’Zot HaBracha: Empires are dust, but blessing is light

V’Zot HaBracha: Moses’ Legacy — Not Power, but Blessing Summary: In the final Torah portion, V’Zot HaBracha, Moses leaves no empire or army behind, but a blessing that lives forever. His legacy reminds us that true strength lies not in domination...

Oct 10, 2025, 5:35 AM

The Spiritual Matrix of Creation, Cosmic Mysteries Decoded.

The Spiritual Matrix of Creation, Torah’s Wisdom Reflected in the Fabric of the Universe In this article, I will provide a very abridged version of the mystical secrets of creation and show you how these secret undercurrents are actually built...

Oct 10, 2025, 12:11 AM

When the Stake Never Ends

This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of G-d, blessed the Israelites before his death. As a dying man, Moses has never been so busy. In the previous Torah portion Haazinu, the prophet-king rebukes his people for...

Moshe Emilio Lavi

Oct 7, 2025, 11:02 AM

Two years after October 7, I am still writing to the Israel I lost

The author’s family in Sderot on September 5, 2023, a month before the October 7 attack. On the right is Omri Miran, who is still held hostage by Hamas (Moshe Emilio Lavi)

Only when my brother in law and the rest of the 48 come home will Israel be able to breathe again. Only then can we begin to rebuild what was lost

Oct 5, 2025, 5:29 PM

Bearing the Burden: Patience, Suffering, and Hope

This past Shabbat I heard a profound insight from Rabbi Kaller that I found fascinating. In Hebrew, the word for patience is סבלנות – savlanut. Its root, ס־ב־ל, means to suffer, to bear a burden—but also patience. Hebrew is...

William Hamilton

Oct 3, 2025, 6:59 PM

With Yom Kippur behind us, the hardest inner-work happens now. The personal commitments you made yesterday are in the balance today. Perhaps if you pay attention to one-at-a-time, your positive prospects will improve. Resist that urge. Insist on speaking up...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Oct 3, 2025, 5:56 PM

Ha’azinu – Learning the Art of Dying by Learning the Art of Living

On Moshe’s last ascent and the dignity of a life prepared “Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death,” writes the famous twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. “If we take eternity to mean not infinite...

Mordechai Silverstein

Oct 3, 2025, 10:59 AM

Facing Life’s Exigencies

The most daunting question religion must confront is how to explain the existence of evil in the world. This profound challenge, known as theodicy, asks how a benevolent deity could allow—or worse, cause—suffering and misfortune. Parshat Haazinu, Moshe’s poetic farewell...

Oct 3, 2025, 10:31 AM

The Power of Metaphors: Parshat Ha’azinu

This shabbat we find ourselves between one holiday and the next! Between Yom Kippur, with all of its images of God as King and forgiving Father, and Sukkot, when we celebrate and sit outside in memory of the clouds...

Oct 3, 2025, 8:34 AM

Manchester, York, and the Song of Haazinu

Dedicated to the memory of those murdered in the Manchester terror attack, their loved ones, the injured seeking healing, and a community I hold dear. On Yom Kippur, as an ex-pat Brit in Israel, I was using the Koren Rabbi...

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