Category: Holidays
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Practicing stopping for Shemini Atzeret
A Time to Take a breath and take it all in The Jewish holiday season is nearing its culmination with the joy-filled final day(s) of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Whenever you find yourself reading this post, I invite you now to take a pause before moving onto the next…
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What Happens When Illusions Fall Away?
Disability Torah for Yom Kippur 5786 We are approaching Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. This day is a time for soul-searching, teshuvah and, as I write in my piece for The Disability Torah Project, a invitation to honest not-knowing. At its essence, Yom Kippur invites us to…
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My Jewish Learning Group Torah Study Parashat Ki Tavo
On September 12, 2025, Rabbi Tuchman offered the weekly Torah study session for My Jewish Learning on Parashat Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26-29). She invited participants to hear and respond to a piece by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of blessed memory on the importance of sound in Judaism. Teachings chronologically: October 7,…
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Hatred, Holiness and the Image of God
A Pre-Tisha b’Av lecture for the Haberman Institute For Jewish Studies July 30, 2025
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We All Were At Sinai: The Transformative Power of Inclusive Torah
Why inclusiveness is crucial to Torah and Judaism. A talk given on May 29, 2025 for Laasok: the Liberal Bet Midrash in advance of Shavuot.
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B’Kol Libeinu: The Call of Our Hearts
As we approach a High Holiday season like none other, many of us find ourselves wondering how to approach these weighty days. B’Kol Libeinu: The Call of Our Hearts is a Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur Machzor Companion with contributions from over 40 magnificent educators, clergy, writers, poets, and artists. You can…
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Torah in the Field
This article was originally published by Svara on September 13, 2024. You can read the full article here. Avodah, according to the likely pshat or plain reading of the Mishnah, refers to Temple worship. This is curious though, isn’t it? The Rabbis simultaneously sustain and subvert what has come before.
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Unpacking Tisha b’Av: A Journey of Discovery, Reflection and Renewal
Presented by the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies
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Enough Space, Enough Room
Published by SVARA on April 19, 2024. In her beautiful song, Enough Room, my teacher, Rabba Dorothy Richman invites us to imagine and bring into being the truth that there’s enough room, enough space, enough joy, for all of us here. We find ourselves too often in the narrow place, not knowing…
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What Does the Talmud Say About The Seder?
Watch the teaching here. Rabbi Tuchman joins My Jewish Learning along with Dr. Rachel Scheinerman and Rabbi Elliot Goldberg to explore what the Talmud says about the seder. April 15, 2024
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 