One day, Rebbe Baruch found his grandson crying. “What’s wrong?” he asked. “My friend and I were playing hide-and-seek,” he answered. “I stayed hidden for a long time, but I got tired of waiting. When I came out, I saw that my friend had gone home. He didn’t even come looking for me!”

It is the season of t’shuvah. As you probably know, t’shuvah, often translated as “repentance,” literally means “return,”

This week’s Torah portion, Ki Teitzei, has the distinction of being the parashah with the most mitzvot in it – 74 laws, in fact.

“You are what you eat.” Some say a French politician and author named Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin coined a version of the phrase in 1826,

Graham Nash was not, as far as I know, inspired by the Book of Deuteronomy when he wrote this song in 1968. So we’ll consider it just a happ

The walls are crumbling before our very eyes. Walls of denial, walls of defensiveness, walls of deception. The walls are crumbling and we can see – we must see – what is behind them: starvation, suffering, death.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Friday, June 26, 2015. The Supreme Court issued their decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, granting same-sex couples the right to marry in all 50 states.

“Kol ha’olam kulo, gesher tzar m’od. The whole world, all of it, is a very narrow bridge.” Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav, the chasidic master who wrote this teaching over two hundred years ago, captures an unpleasant, if common, human experience.