Sound and Fury
byI am haunted by those old gods Odin, Zeus, Osiris as shadow and blood rippling through my genes ephemeral rifts in my body’s memory…
Culture
Parshat Tetzave
byUpon a surface reading of the text, Aharon appears to have lacked the readiness for ultimate sacrifice.
Son of the Rising Star
byHandcuffs, battered face blooded nose and blazing eyes a proud brow, the snarling head of lions, ripping havoc into the tails of foxes to…
Parshat T’ruma
byThe notion of giving everything to HaShem illustrates the difference between the mentality of redemption and that of the exile.
Celebrating the 28th of Shvat
byBefore Rome destroyed Jerusalem, Israel’s calendar had several festivals commemorating Maccabean victories. The story of our 26 year guerrilla war is actually so much bigger than just Ḥanukah.
Parshat Mishpatim
byIsrael being a ‘kingdom of priests and a holy nation’ necessitates the sanctification of individual, interpersonal and national life so as to give earthly expression to the Torah’s lofty spiritual values.
Guard Duty, 3:55pm
bySparrows clipped like clothespins to the hoary bramble sprawling between the bars of sun-bleached iron industrial grey and gentle slate to them the melding…
Parshat Yitro
byThe Torah is not a ‘religion’ relegated to the houses of study or prayer. Nor is it a set of rules meant to coercively modify human behavior.
Blood Moon
byThere was in its eyes a glow the pale shimmer of curling mist at the edges of the sea an irradiated grimace not quite…
Parshat Beshalaḥ
byAt various historic points, a ‘low soul’ has prevented the children of Israel from successfully advancing our national aspirations and collective mission.
Ayekah
byI keep asking myself a question or something like myself a question the being that exists in the tension between what I feel should…
Parshat Bo
byThe more we define ourselves as the actors rather than as the characters we play, the more our characters can actually succeed at fulfilling their unique roles in the story HaShem placed us in.