pesach: dayenu and A15
sholem aleichem, today is april 15th, tax day in the united states, and the day of the A15 Economic Blockades for Palestine i thought i would take this...
tzav: heart in my mouth
sholem aleichem, vayikra and tzav both lay out the laws of the sacrifice of shalom ("peace", "wellbeing", "repayment"). this is a sacrifice you might offer...
pekudei: we are human
sholem aleichem, our parsha, and the entirety of sefer shemos, ends with the following psukim: וּבְהֵעָל֤וֹת הֶֽעָנָן֙ מֵעַ֣ל הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן יִסְע֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י...
terumah: moving with god
sholem aleichem, א I didn't grow up going to shul, really. People often assume I did. A well-meaning shul-goer the other week explained to me that, since I...
Mishpatim
Sholem aleichem, [CW: discussion of slavery, abortion rights, and genocide (in particular, current events in Gaza)] Mishpatim is one of the most jarring...
Beshalach: apartheid-free Burlington
A statement on the recent Burlington City Council meeting, as a member of the greater-Burlington Jewish community: In the Torah portion read by the Jewish...
Infinitely Broken Shards
The Baal Shem Tov once visited the Noam Elimelech in a dream. They stood on a high mountain, taller than any mountain on earth. The Noam Elimelech cried out...
three texts
sholem aleichem. i don't have many coherent thoughts right now, but i want to share three texts that have been on my heart lately. first, from noach in the...
emor and online class announcement!
sholem aleixem! i've been out of touch for a bit....but i've been cooking up something very special. but before we get to that, a word from this week's...
announcing: revolutionary reading group
sholem aleichem, apologies for bothering your inbox sans drash, but two things: if you are looking for hot etz hi takes on parshas tazria, metzora, or...
shemini: seek wholenesses
sholem aleichem, apologies for the lateness of this newsletter -- with pesach and multiple yamim tovim, i did not have time to write. my word for this parsha...
etz hi tdov: choose love
hi, i'm republishing the piece below (shortened somewhat) in honor of tristen's first yahrtzeit (tomorrow), fern's first yahrtzeit (sunday), and (i...
tzav: gd in transition
sholem aleichem, thank you all very much for your support on my return to newslettering! i'm happy to be back, baruch hashem, for another week. writing this...
vayikra: the three-fold cord
sholem aleichem friends, my apologies for the lengthy absence -- i caught covid shortly after my last newsletter, and it has been a long slog to recover both...
yehoshua: could we
sholem aleichem, Happy New Year.....a little late. My apologies that it has been a full month since the last newsletter. I spend all day typing for my day...
yehoshua: the choice is ours
sholem aleichem, Hope you are all having a good end to the Gregorian Calendar Year :) This week: Yehoshua 13-15 Summary: Time jump! Yehoshua is now old, but...
yehoshua: barred from teshuva
sholem aleichem Happy chanukah y'all! We're halfway done with Yehoshua, thank goodness. Let's go: This week: Yehoshua 11-12 Summary: More kings ally against...
yehoshua: the sefiros turned upside down
sholem aleichem Hello again! I have to (once again) apologize for the erratic posting schedule. Without the parsha schedule to keep me honest, it is harder...
yehoshua: before hashem
sholem aleichem, It's been a while! Sorry about that. I took a week off for TDOR, and then another week off because I'm in the middle of a big move. This...
yehoshua: neither add nor subtract
sholem aleichem,