Category: Teachings
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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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Meditation with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
On October 13, 2025, which was Hoshana Raba—the final day of Sukkot—Rabbi Tuchman lead the daily meditation sit with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. The recording can be accessed on their YouTube page here.
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Shemini Atzeret: The Most Sacred Jewish Holiday You’ve Never Heard Of with La’asok: The Liberal Beit Midrash
Rabbi Tuchman was honored to give a talk on Shemini Atzeret, the 8th day of Assembly, which is the 8th day following the seven-day harvest festival of Sukkot and is a holiday in its own right. It also happens to be Rabbi Tuchman’s favorite fall holiday. Come and hear why! The talk…
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Day of Learning with My Jewish Learning
Rabbi Tuchman offered the second session of My Jewish Learning’s day of learning commemorating the 2nd anniversary of October 7. This day of learning, focusing on Mishnah, which is customarily learned to honor and uplift the souls of the deceased took place on October 5, 2025. The recording from the day…
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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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Weekly Wisdom from Or HaLev
Parashat Shoftim 5785: Can We Establish Judges At Our Own Gates Offered on August 29, 2025
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Jewish Meditation with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Rabbi Tuchman lead a meditation practice with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality for Shabbat Nachamu. This sit includes a fifteen-minute question and response period after the formal practice. August 8, 2025
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Torah on the Body
A Commentary on Parashat Ve’etchanan for the Disability Torah Project. August 4, 2025 Conceptualizing tefillin as a physical signpost reminding us of the vastness and incomprehensible field of divine love with which we are loved collectively and individually is rather new for me.
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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
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 