Tag: Disability
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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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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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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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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
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The Value of Human Dignity
This talk was originally given on September 16, 2024 and hosted by Laasok.
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Disability as Beloved by G-d
This article was published in Lilith Magazine on August 16, 2024. You can read the full article here. Being a spiritual seeker is part of the human experience. Often, we reach out for connection and to know ourselves better through joining a synagogue or other Jewish institution, or by finding…
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Disability as Beloved by G-d
Read Rabbi Tuchman’s article in Lilith Magazine, published on August 16, 2024. Read the full article here.
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Behar 5782
Parashat Behar, our Torah reading for this week, introduces us to the Shmita year. Every seven years, Leviticus/Vayikra instructs us that the land must lie fallow—no agricultural or food production is permitted and there are a number of other restrictions put into place in addition. As it so happens, 5782…
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Finding My Possibility Model
A version of the below piece originally appeared as part of Hot Off The Shtender, a series of reflection pieces from SVARA. It is hard, nay impossible, to adequately capture the feelings that came over me when I learned about the passing of a dear friend: the fierce and…
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Thoughts For Yom Kippur 5782
Yom Kippur is often translated into English as the Jewish day of atonement, though I feel that this is a mistranslation. Yom Kippur’s awesomeness, in the literal sense of the word, is that the Jewish tradition provides us with a 25-hour period, Shabbat Shabbaton (the sabbath of sabbaths) to focus…
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 