Parashat Eikev offers another Jewish entry point to a consideration of reparations. “Beware,” Moshe says, “lest you come to think that your good fortune is of your own doing.”
Read moreThe Plain of Threading
Where evening becomes day, light alternates with leaf, and experience becomes story.
Read moreConditions for Prophecy
Prophecy is not dead. But it does require the right conditions to emerge. What are the insights waiting to come from or through us? How can we make it easier to hear them?
Read moreThe Walls are Broken, But We Ain't Done Yet: Fasting as Community Protest
Our ancestors fasted when the rains were running late.
Tisha B’Av, coming up in a few weeks, might be a cautionary tale. This is what destruction looks like. This is what it looks like when there’s nothing left to be done. But the 17th of Tammuz is a blueprint for possibility. “Do something now,” it seems to tell us. Fast. Plead. It’s not too late. It’s not over yet.
Read moreA Nameless Angel and a Woman whose Name Might or Might Not Have Been Tzlelponit
A story from the Book of Judges about an angel prophesying the miraculous birth of a child, and the unnamed woman who was to be Samson's mother.
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