BY AMY JOSEFA ARIEL
VAYERA GENESIS 18:1–22:24
Why did Idit look back? Did she miss her neighbors, or did she want to watch them burn? Was she aching for her two daughters who refused to leave, or was she upset about her material losses? Our Torah does not answer these questions. All we know is that she looked back.
BY AMY JOSEFA ARIEL
LECH LECHA GENESIS 12:1 – 17-27
Abraham is a good person. Abraham did not just stand there and let Pharaoh’s officials turn Sarah into a sex slave. And he most certainly did not just accept gifts from Pharaoh.
Except . . . he did.
NOAH (GENESIS 6:9 – 11:32 )
It is this parsha in which I find my heart, and it is also this parsha that breaks it.
BRESHEET 1:1 - 6:8
Hebrew is a gendered language, it’s true, and our tradition has known from the beginning that human experience is as rich and varied as each hour of a day.
SUKKOT 5778
We woke to the threat of rain, but it was the morning after Yom Kippur. . . . Rain or shine, it was time. Sukkah time.
YOM KIPPUR 5778
Here we are - so like Jonah - in the belly of our own fish, in the midst of a swirling sea, and we call out to . . . Who?
HA'AZINU
Have you seen The Good Place? I don't mean the actual "Good Place", of course. I mean the NBC show. Basically, The Good Place packs in everything we do in this High Holiday season.
NITZAVIM-VAYEILECH
How do we, with our bodies and our souls, best take in and express - best experience our relationship with God? How do we best honor the relationships with God others experience? Perhaps we could broaden the way we think about the concept of standing, of being upright in soul and in body.
KI TAVO
We are here to pay attention.
VAYIGASH
I received my first blood transfusion, of A- blood, on December 16, 2010 the night before I was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia - 2,214 days ago as of this Shabbat.
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