Creativity
- 5779, Amoraim, Annual Cycle, Bereshit, Comprehensive Exams, Creativity, Galilee, Growth, HUC, Jerusalem, Komps Kaos, Parsha, Rabbis, Second Temple Period, Tannaim, Torah, Yavne
Restart
Bereshit…that’s how we know it’s time to restart the Torah cycle, to begin a renewed year of growth, learning, and creating. This year already, I feel like I’ve needed several of them! Last…
- Academia, Archaeology, Bible, Creativity, Dreams, Family, Friends, Haifa, Homeland, HUC, Israel, Jerusalem, Midrash, Mishnah, PhD, Talmud, Tel Aviv, Tel Dan, Tel Gezer, Travel
Back to the Land
A short update from a long year (hence the void of posts – sometime I will get through a full Torah cycle): In a week, I will have completed my Ph.D. coursework. How…
- Blooms, Consecration, Creativity, Details, Flowers, Garments, Holiness, Kings, Ornate, Parsha, Priests, Purim, Ritual, Sacrifice, Splendor, Spring, Tabernacle, Tetzaveh, Worship
The Finer Things…
Yesterday I couldn’t help but smile and walk a little quicker as I enjoyed a warm day, feeling the sun on my skin and noticing the blooms on the trees. G!d has given…
- Annual Cycle, Bereshit, Cooperation, Creativity, Dancing, Joy, Lifelong Learning, Parsha, Relationship, Simchat Torah, Torah
Let’s Create Anew (Simchat Torah Edition)
Back to the beginning – a new year, a new start to reading the Torah – even a new president, new members of congress, new local officials coming soon. New things to anticipate,…
- Assembly, Community, Congregation, Creativity, Haftorah, Instructions, Israelites, Moses, Obedience, Offering, Parsha, Tabernacle, Temple, Vayakhel
Enjoining the Joining (of Hands)
Moses has received G!d’s instructions for the Israelites, including the construction of the Tabernacle so he could dwell among them. However, for these words to become a reality, the people would have to…
- Annual Cycle, Burial, Creativity, Death, Deuteronomy, End, Haftorah, Inheritance, Israelites, Journey, Land, Moses, Nebo, Parsha, Poem, Presence, Prophet, Simchat Torah, Tribe, Vzot haBrakhah
Time Presses On
The end of a year. The end of a cycle. Could it really have come upon us so quickly? Have we really finished reading the Torah again? For a moment a person might…