Awarding the Emperor an Independence Day Prize
byThe image of Israel awarding its highest civilian honor to Donald Trump projects the very opposite of Jewish independence & empowerment.
Israel’s Vision for Humanity’s Future
byIsrael must develop its prophetic national character in order to play a leadership role on the world stage.
Metzora: Counting to Eight
byThe purified metzora waiting for seven days outside his tent parallels Moshe’s delay in returning to the people of Israel, after years of separation while in the house of Pharaoh & then later in Midian.
Stronger Alone
byWhen Israel inevitably returns to war with Iran, it should do so without a globally overcommitted & fundamentally disinterested United States.
What ‘Shalom’ Really Means
byHow the ancient prophetic understanding of ‘Shalom’ fits into a broader Jewish liberation framework driving Israel’s national development.
Tazria: Eight Types of Tzaraat
byThe Torah presents us with different forms of tzaraat, expressing various levels of moral decline.
The Pollard Dilemma: Sovereign Architecture Versus Strategic Contract
byTwo primary load-bearing walls can’t compete for the same space. One must be the foundation & the other must be secondary. This is the deeper lesson of Jonathan Pollard’s story & the choice he made.
The Usefulness of ‘Jewish Extremists’
byThere are sectors of Israeli society that express a deep national consciousness more similar to that of the ancient Israelites than to the nationalisms currently found in Western societies.
Shemini: The ‘Eighth Day’ of Creation
byHuman history exists within the ‘seventh day’ of Creation while the Temple belongs to the ‘eighth day’ & therefore transcends the laws of our world.
On Orla & Indigeneity
byThe relationship between the people of Israel & our land is not incidental but actually structural.
The Torah’s Allegorical Language
byWhat we call the ‘Kabbala’ might actually be a more scientific approach to Israel’s Torah that helps us to preserve its original prophetic understanding.
Tzav: Disrupting the Chronology
byWhile the ‘Torah of Moshe’ teaches the korbanot in a way that’s relevant to righteous idealists, the ‘Torah of Aharon’ teaches these laws as they relate to the average person in need of cleansing from sin.