Journal

Abram was told to leave everything: his land, his birthplace, his father's house. He wasn't told where to. On the two words that start the journey, lech lecha, and why you don't need the whole map ...

Some weeks feel like rain that won't stop. Before the flood, Noah was told to make a light for the ark. On the two kinds of light that carry us through: the one that comes in from outside, and the ...

Moses lists everyone before he says a word of substance — all the way down to the one who draws your water. Then: it is not in heaven. The Torah arguing with the excuse that the real thing lives so...

The first fruits ritual asked you to say one strange sentence at the exact moment life was finally good — and then the sages changed it so that nobody would feel small.