Shabbat

National pride and unity are important, but it is ethical behavior that makes a people worthy of divine favor.

What Jewish mysticism can teach us about psychedelics.

Revelation doesn’t happen in a moment of calm, but amidst chaos and fear.

We haven’t yet awoken to the part of us that, through calamity and catastrophe, remains open and ever full of love.

When images of horror flash across our screens hourly, how many generations will it take to heal?

How to regain the courage to say what we think and hear what we don't want to hear.

As Jews, we carry within us residues of traumas we may ourselves have never experienced.

What hope or despair, openness of heart or resilience of spirit, will be gathered into those who come after?

Jewish tradition is deeply torn, and even contradictory, in its thinking about war.

Ancient scriptures tell two very different stories about why we celebrate the Festival of Lights.

It is possible to hold both the deep pain of this moment and a sense of gratitude for the blessings that surround us.

Could it be that in our yearning for light, we fail to recognize the gifts of darkness?