Journal
Hakafot
Simchat Torah: It Ends. It Begins Again.
Why we finish the Torah and start it again in the same breath — and the hidden heart formed by its last and first letters.
Four Species
The Four Species of Sukkot — And the Four Kinds of People
Etrog, lulav, hadass, arava — what the four species of Sukkot mean, and why they are only held together, never alone.
Am Yisrael Chai
Menachem Av: The Month That Turns Mourning Into Comfort
Rosh Chodesh Av opens the most solemn stretch of the Jewish year — yet its very name, Menachem Av, means ‘the comforter.’ A reflection on mourning, endurance, and the turn from grief to comfort.
Belonging
"Your People Shall Be My People": What Ruth Teaches Us This Shavuot
At Sinai, there was thunder.
There was fire. There was smoke rising from the mountain, a sound like a great shofar growing louder and louder, and a voice so overwhelming that our ancestors said: w...
Days of Awe
Shabbat Shuvah: A Pause Between Beginnings and Renewal
Between the joy of Rosh Hashana and the solemnity of Yom Kippur, the Jewish calendar offers us a unique moment: Shabbat Shuvah – the Shabbat of Return.
It is a time suspended between celebrati...