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black and white drawing of nadav and avihu being thrown backwards by a flash of light
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In praise of silence: Sometimes the wisest move is to keep your mouth shut

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 4, 2024April 4, 2024
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inTorah

If God had created a perfect world, humans would be nothing more than robots

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein March 28, 2024March 28, 2024
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir holds a grogger during a Megillah reading at his home in Jerusalem on Purim 1991. (Photo/Israel Government Press Office)
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Silence isn’t golden: The power of Purim groggers

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg March 21, 2024
A 19th-century painting of Purim partying in Tzfat, Israel (Photo/Wikimedia)
Posted inTorah

Find an excuse to feel some collective Jewish joy

Rabbi George Altshuler by Rabbi George Altshuler March 14, 2024March 14, 2024
"Friday Evening" by Isidor Kaufmann, 1920 (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
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Shabbat candlelighting remains the most transformative Jewish action of all

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon March 7, 2024March 8, 2024
Painting of the Golden Calf
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Why the Israelites really built the Golden Calf

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen February 29, 2024February 28, 2024
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inJewish Life

This week’s Torah portion wants us to loosen our grip on wealth

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 16, 2024February 16, 2024
From "Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law" by Rembrandt
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Even for newly liberated Israelites, freedom doesn’t exist in a vacuum

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 8, 2024April 1, 2024
"Moses on Mount Sinai" by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895-1900
Posted inTorah

Silence allows us to truly connect with God, Torah and ourselves

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg February 1, 2024February 1, 2024
"Jacob Blesses His Sons" from "Figures de la Bible," 1728
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Jacob’s complicated blessings and rebukes for his sons

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen December 28, 2023

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