Building Holy Places – Parashat Terumah

Writing this piece is particularly timely for me. Last Friday, my congregation shared in a day of worship and solidarity with members of the local Muslim community. We prayed with them in their [...]

Show Up – Parashat Mishpatim

  “Three pilgrimage festivals you shall celebrate before Me each year.” Exodus: 23:14 At some point in every Hebrew school curriculum a child learns the topic of the Shalosh Regalim, the [...]

Sacred Recognition – Parashat Miketz

In Miketz, the penultimate Torah portion of the Joseph narrative, Joseph experiences a dramatic reversal of fortune. When we last saw Joseph, he had gone from his father’s favorite child, to a [...]