Category: 2025
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Behar-Bechukotai
Can We Release into the Knowing that We’re Just Passing through? I wrote about this week’s parsha, Behar, for Or HaLev.
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Rest, Renewal, And Listening To Our Deepest Yearnings
Read my new teaching on Svara from their latest issue, Hot Off the Shtender!
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Parashat Emor 5785
Exploring the festival calendar and the practice of counting the Omer On May 16, 2025, I taught a class on Parashat Emor for My Jewish Learning’s Group Torah study. I hope you enjoy the recording linked here. This class focuses on chapter 23 of Leviticus which painstakingly outlines the festival calendar. This…
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Holy Sparks
A conversation with Saul Kaye I am pleased to share today a link to my conversation with Saul Kaye as part of the Holy Sparks podcast. In this wide-ranging conversation, Saul and I talk about my spiritual journey and commitment to Jewish contemplative practice amongst other things. You can find…
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What Is Jewish Mindfulness and How Do I Get Started?
A non-exhaustive intro to Jewish Mindfulness Practice I am pleased to share with you today a piece I recently published on Exploring Judaism about applying mindfulness practice to daily life. This is often known as informal practice. I hope it is of benefit. Please feel free to share.
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Tenderness in These Times
Making It Through Together – Published February 21, 2025 on SVARA We are living in extraordinarily uncertain, destabilizing and disasterous times. Today, I am pleased to offer a piece recently published as part of the Hot Off The Shtender blog series at SVARA. I hope you find it meaningful in…
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Finding Hope Amidst Deep Despair
What does Judaism teach us about moments of deep despair? How can we cope when it feels like there’s nowhere else to turn? Rabbi Lauren Tuchman shares a teaching of the Piaseczna Rebbe. On Jan 16, 2025, Rabbi Tuchman offered a brief talk for Laasok, a liberal bet midrash as part…
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Parashat Vayigash: Meeting Grief with Wisdom
The gentle wisdom of Serah bat Asher. Enjoy this Torah commentary written for My Jewish Learning and published on January 3, 2025.
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Parashat Beshalach Group Torah Study
Taught for My Jewish Learning on February 7, 2025. Follow along with the text here.
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Manna for the Soul: A Written Commentary of Beshalach
Parashat Beshalach teaches that we all need reliable nourishment, for our bodies and out souls. Written for My Jewish Learning and published on February 7, 2025
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 