Post How to Build Resilient Faith Devorah Paley’s story inspire us to recognize the miracles in our lives, both past and present, and invite us to cultivate a deeper faith that can guide us through life’s… Read More
Post Into the Unknown Seven Weeks of Superheroes On the second night of Passover, Jews worldwide began counting the Sefirat HaOmer. For seven weeks, or forty-nine days – or seven squared, as my six-year-old… Read More
Post The Bitter Path to Redemption God has chosen our generation for greatness. The path may be bitter, but great days await…. Read More
Post The Symbolism of the Seder Plate The Passover Seder is a generational affirmation, a transmission of the story of God’s miraculous redemption of the Jewish people from Egypt. In this context, the Seder plate, as the… Read More
Post Who Said “Let My People Go!”… Anybody? Moses didn’t actaully say “let My people go.” Instead, he siad “send My people out.” It would take a year’s worth of plagues to devastate Egypt and convince the Jews… Read More
Post Leprosy: A Gift from God? Any clearly communicated message from God is a blessing. A message from God that alerts one to a crisis in one’s relationship to God is invaluable…. Read More
Post The Land of the Law The purpose of the commandments is for us to serve God by creating a Godly society. Even the laws that address individual behavior are meant to contribute to this goal…. Read More
Post Why are Eggs Eaten at the Passover Seder Meal? Even as we rejoice this Passover in God’s salvation and redemptive acts in history, we must also take a moment to remind ourselves that we live in a broken world,… Read More
Post One Shoulder We are fortunate to live in an age when Christians and Jews, and God-fearers of many nations are joining together to fight the battles of God. Let us pray that… Read More
Post The Art of Questioning We have a really fun Passover tradition in my family. It’s purely silly, and as far as we know, it does not originate from an ancient ancestral book, nor has… Read More
