Recharge

The mitzvah of the Jubilee year is a chance to begin again.

What we experience in our early years informs every aspect of who we are.

If ritual is to create a shared language across the generations, we must ensure the Judaism we practice is recognizable both to our ancestors and descendants.

Fire can be destructive or constructive as well as a tool for connecting with the divine.

What we regret shows what we value

Jewish tradition suggests that dreams awaken the imaginative faculty without which prophecy is impossible.

After a month filled to the brim with ritual observance, the Hebrew month of Heshvan invites us to holy stillness.

In an era of predictive ideology, Judaism maintains that humans are endowed with free will.

For the ancient Israelites, the Yom Kippur rituals signified a world in which God brought moral order out of chaos.

Shmita, the Jewish sabbatical year, teaches that what we consider normal is just a construct -- and invites us to imagine alternatives.

The Hebrew month of Elul teaches us that love, like change, requires risk.

Though it is ostensibly about the purification of the Temple, Hanukkah really marks the political achievement of the Hasmoneans.