Step 48: Linear
Year 1: Sedarim on Zoom, quickly put together after we realized this “two week lockdown” was going to be much longer. Year 2: Sedarim in backyards, with others on Zoom, trying to figure out this hybrid idea we were still attempting to understand. Year 3: ...
Step 48: Holy Anarchy
Rabbi Brent Chaim Spodek is a Faculty Associate Fellow for Pardes North America. He has been recognized by the Jewish Forward as one of the most inspiring rabbis in America. He is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom Hartman ...
Step 47: Taste
Dr. Eliezer Diamond is the Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary. He teaches courses in rabbinic literature and introductory, intermediate, and advanced Talmud studies. Dr. Diamond has written on prayer, asceticism, and ...
Step 46: Awakening
One of our tradition’s great love songs, the Song of Songs, invites a departure paralleling that of the patriarch Abraham, as God calls him to leave the comforts of his home in pursuit of divine purpose. The loving commands in Hebrew for the lover ...
Step 45: Time
Jewish time operates in a trajectory all its own. There’s a cyclical nature, a rhythm to the calendar of holidays and rituals, the texts that are read and the peak moments of gathering and reflection. Jewish time is both wholly a part of and ...
Step 44: Disagreeing
Two Jews are disagreeing, and they take their case to their rabbi for adjudication. The first one presents their point of view, and the rabbi nods sagely: “Yes, you are correct.” The second one does the same, and again the rabbi agrees: “Yes, you ...
Step 43: Belonging
It is not until two chapters into Exodus that the Israelites take their first collective action and definitively become a people. Their collective action is a groan. It is a collective moan. It is a cry that bubbles up from the depths of their ...