Change is a frightening concept. We gravitate towards the familiar—the routine, the ordinary, the comforting rituals of our daily lives...

The transition from Ki Tissa  to Vayakhel - Pekudei holds the key to understanding how failure can lead to growth, adversity to...

The image of Shiri Bibas courageously trying to protect her babies from the monsters has been seared into our consciousness because it...

Over the past 16 months, in the wake of the war with Hamas, Israeli artists have responded through song, reflecting a spectrum of...

I was recently listening to a podcast where Abigail Shrier, an American psychologist and author of Bad Therapy: Why Kids Aren’t Growing...

On New Army Officers, Holocaust Remembrance and Pharoah's Amnesia This week, my eldest daughter graduated from officer training school...

Listen to the first words voiced by the three heroines who returned this week from their captivity in Gaza, and you’ll understand how the...

Envisioning a Different Reality This week, I listened to the father of 19-year-old Liri Albag, who was taken hostage by Hamas and has...

For the soon-to-be-released Rabbi Sacks podcast, which I’ve been working on over the past year, I had the privilege of interviewing...

I said to a friend the other day that if I stop and ruminate about what the hostages are enduring or the unimaginable barbarity...

We all dream of ladders to heaven. Whether it’s Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven  or Yaakov’s dream in this week’s parsha, there’s...

We are a nation existing in the shadow of trauma. The events of this past year have shaken us to the core, leaving scars and wounds that...

Rather than demanding promises from humankind, God unilaterally commits to a promise never to destroy the world again. This is a radical...

By all accounts, Rav Avi Goldberg, the 47-year-old father of eight who was tragically killed this week, was an extraordinary person. His...

The past year has been a lesson in surrendering our human need for control.  As human beings, we crave certainty. We build our lives...

I don’t think I thought about God Or self transformation Or return Or love Instead there was guilt and shame Appraisals Scales and...

This week, my brother married his childhood friend of many decades. Despite, and perhaps even because of, their long journey and the...

One of the earliest post-Holocaust stories, “ Yossl Rakover Speaks to God ” by Zvi Kolitz, is a visceral and raw account of the ramblings...

וְהָיָה, כִּי יְבִיאֲךָ ה אֱלֹקיךָ, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ--וְנָתַתָּה אֶת-הַבְּרָכָה עַל-הַר גְּרִזִים,...

It seems an odd way to conclude the book of Bamidbar. The Parsha covers laws about oaths and vows, the request of the tribes of Reuven,...