recharge

Ancient rules regarding priestly purity offer guidance for moments when weighing different kinds of needs against each other proves difficult.

Allowing oneself to be overcome by the exquisiteness of a moment is harder than it seems. Shabbat can help.

Shavuot is not just the culmination of Passover, but also its subversion.

Truly great leadership requires a correspondence between an individual’s inner and outer lives.

Why is the festival of freedom also the holiday with the most rules?

Only when we open our doors to the hungry will we really be open to redemption.

Modern Jewish life has been largely drained of the drama and emotional release available in ancient times. Is there a way to recapture it?

Visiting with those in dire need, God's presence never felt more present — or absent.

The mythic and the magical has its place in the sanctuary of the holy.

Countless moments in the Bible demonstrate the raw power of voice, divine and human, to heal or destroy.