Tag: Jews
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We Begin Again
Introducing a new cycle of Torah with the Disability Torah Project Here we are, beginning a new cycle of Torah. We’ve now properly entered the new year of 5787 as the holidays—hard to believe—are behind us. I was privileged to start the year off by writing for the Disability Torah…
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How can we come closer to what is true?
Read on for Weekly Wisdom on parashat Pinchas by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman, Or HaLev Teacher. In Parashat Pinchas, we are introduced to the five daughters of Zelophehad. We’re told `Vatikravna b’not Zelophehad` – `and the daughters of Zelophehad came close`. They approached the Ohel Moed, the tent of meeting, with a particular…
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On the Other Side of Sinai
Shavuot is now behind us. The multi-dimensional holiday is simultaneously about revelation of Torah at Mt. Sinai, a harvest festival of abundant gratitude and bringing first fruits when the Temple stood in Jerusalem and a time when we pay particular attention to the needs and lives of the poor, the…
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What Allows Our Practice to Flourish?
On Parashat Terumah Parashat Terumah, read the Shabbat of Feb 20-21 in 5786 begins an extended reflection and discussion of sacred space. The Mishkan, the portable sanctuary the people create from gifts brought for its purpose accompanies them as they journey in the desert. It is a place for the…
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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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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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Weekly Wisdom: Parashat Balak
This piece was offered as part of Or HaLev’s Weekly Wisdom series. July 10, 2025 “The ass said to Balaam, ‘Look, I am the ass that you have been riding all along until this day! Have I been in the habit of doing thus to you?’ And he answered, ‘No.’…
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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.
