Tag: Torah
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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.
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Rest, Renewal, And Listening To Our Deepest Yearnings
Read my new teaching on Svara from their latest issue, Hot Off the Shtender!
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Parashat Emor 5785
Exploring the festival calendar and the practice of counting the Omer On May 16, 2025, I taught a class on Parashat Emor for My Jewish Learning’s Group Torah study. I hope you enjoy the recording linked here. This class focuses on chapter 23 of Leviticus which painstakingly outlines the festival calendar. This…
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Reading Psalms In Difficult Times
An ancient practice for an ever-changing world I am delighted to share with you today a piece I recently published on Exploring Judaism about the practice many have of saying Psalms/Tehillim at difficult times. Life is full of its ups and downs. Tehillim/Psalms has been a refuge, a place of deep recognition,…
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 