Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/category/jewish_wisdom/page/26/)
Every year Tikkun publishes a Haggadah supplement for Passover. This year we only published the first part of it in the print magazine (the two pages pictured at right) and promised that the entire haggadah would be published online, here, in time for Passover.
The time-honed debate about whether the Song of Songs is a celebration of sensual love or a depiction of the ever-changing, running-and-returning relationship of the Holy One and the People is put to rest in Rabbi Shefa Gold’s recent translation and commentary of the Song.
How is it that a concept rooted in medieval Jewish mysticism has so endeared itself to contemporary Jews? Howard Schwartz retells the myth of the “Shattering of the Vessels” and explains how it created a foundation for modern-day tikkun olam.
In this week’s perasha we encounter a taxonomy of “our own”, the classification of the animals permitted for our consumption, and those forbidden to us.
A review of BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH: AN ILLUMINATED TORAH COMMENTARY by Ilene Winn-Lederer.
This week we will discuss sacrifice and speech. Those of you who are fans of psychoanalysis and are looking for confirmation within Jewish sources, pay careful attention to the opening teaching, with its foreshadowing of parapraxes.
With Purim, there is no miracle. It takes place in exile, the Jews are a persecuted minority, and a lot of political intrigue is involved.
As we begin reading the book of Vayikra, we shift from discussing themes of narrative and liberation to dealing with concepts relating to “holiness,” a term which needs to be so radically redefined in our time that it almost has no meaning.
What if God emerges from and evolves with us?
Like Kafka’s parables and the enigmatic, humane tales of Rabbi Nachman, Rodger Kamenetz’s Burnt Books has an economical generosity that is thoroughly secular, deeply religious, and seriously joking.
“Is the cornsnake Jewish?” This was a tough question to answer. I was visiting with the first-grade class taught by my then-girlfriend, who had introduced me to her students as “Farmer Josh” — and then thrust a large-ish cornsnake into my less-than-willing hands.
This week’s perasha recounts the repeated (or continued) call to erect the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary built to house the ark and the sacred utensils, after the debacle of the golden calf episode.