It seems that humans, from their inception, are destined to struggle with the meaning of existence. We ‘clothe’ ourselves in many...

There are three fundamental principles of Judaism that are set out in this week’s parsha. 1. The idea of equality and shared...

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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,...

Dara Horn in her bestselling book “People Love Dead Jews” regales the reader with countless stories about the lives of dead Jews or...

What do we do when our reality is shaken to its very core? When the ground under our feet is destabilised to such a degree that we feel...

לעילוי נשמת מאיר זאב בן מנחם מנדל הכהן In Memory of my maternal grandfather Ze’ev Racker on his 31st Yarzheit It seems an odd way to...

Today we live in a world riddled by conflict on the global, national and communal level. The most pressing question for contemporary...

Last week and this weeks parsha share many parallel themes. As a book whose theme is the growth of the nation it is natural that...

There is the famous adage: 2 jews 3 opinions. There is something quintessentially Jewish about argument. From the moment God invites...

If Bereshit is a book about the road to character of the individual and the family, Bamidbar is a book about the road to growth of the...

The Omer period not by chance to my mind, annually coincides with what I term the modern days of awe here in Israel – Yom Hashoa, Yom...

Ramban and Rashi disagree on the chronological placement of the Mishkan (tabernacle) narratives in the Torah. At the heart of their...

Dependence to Independence: Donald Winnicott, the renowned British paediatrician and psychoanalyst, presents an important theory of child...

" 8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9 And...

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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 year I’ve been teaching a course at Matan on the problem of evil – On the heels of Covid I thought it may speak to people, it may...

(Preamble: This post was initially written for the participants of a class I teach at Matan on the problem of evil, following a class in...