Tag: Torah
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Parashat Noach
Thoughts on a challenging parsha Now that the holiday season is behind us, I hope this finds you taking in the opportunity for stillness and quiet it affords. And however you did (or did not) celebrate, I hope this season of the year treats you kindly. Today, I am pleased…
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 