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Photo of a chocolate cake with candles that spell out "Happy Birthday"
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Vayikra is bad for birthday cakes, but good for life guidance

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf March 19, 2021March 18, 2021
Detail from an illustration in "Figures de la Bible" (1728) shows the two cherubim facing each other on top of the ark.
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Here it is, a Divine truth: See the good in Jews you don’t agree with

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg March 12, 2021March 12, 2021
The Golden Calf, as seen in the 1956 film "The Ten Commandments."
Posted inTorah

Sinai should’ve been all ecstasy. Then the Golden Calf happened. What went wrong?

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen March 5, 2021March 4, 2021
(Photo/Wikimedia-Olaf.herfurth CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Your Shabbat table is magic. No, really. The rabbis said so.

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan February 26, 2021February 25, 2021
“Moses and Joshua Bowing Before the Ark” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
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The power and the mystery of the cherubim, explained

Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon by Rabbi Shana Chandler Leon February 19, 2021February 18, 2021
Illustration of a donkey by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649.
Posted inTorah

Rise above the trap of hating or blowing off ‘the other’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 12, 2021
"Meeting of Moses and Jethro" by Willem van Swanenburg, 1607.
Posted inTorah

A lesson about building bridges — something Jethro taught us 

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 5, 2021February 4, 2021
"Moses Speaks to Pharaoh" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

Just like the ancient Israelites, we’re uncertain about our future

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf January 29, 2021January 28, 2021
A page from the famed German Birds’ Head Haggadah, ca. 1300.
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Being there for someone means imagining what it’s like to be them

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg January 22, 2021January 21, 2021
"Moses Speaks to Pharaoh" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
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Playing God’s name game can show us a brighter future 

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen January 15, 2021January 15, 2021

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