Shabbat

Abraham had to search for a grave when Sarah died. Our family was luckier.

The maze-like path of the labyrinth, leading in and out of a sacred center, echoes an ancient kabbalistic idea.

As the floodwaters rise around us, the story of Noah’s Ark calls on us to ask: What does righteousness look like in our generation?

The biblical book of Ecclesiastes offers a different way to think about time — not as a unit of measurement, but as shifting periods of emotion and action.

Jewish tradition suggests that discovering blessing is always possible — even in hard moments.

The sea of Sabbath rules and restrictions can be overwhelming. Here's how to experience them as joy and freedom.

According to the Midrash, the lighting of Sabbath candles is a symbolic rectification for Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden. Why?

Shabbat Parah, Shabbat HaHodesh and Shabbat HaGadol.

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The Haftarah selection comes from Hosea 14:2-10 and Micah 7:18-20. Ashkenazic communities add Joel 2:15-27.