You Shall Not See My Many Faces and Remain Lively In Judaism, the two most common names for God are Elohim and the tetragrammaton...

What is Shabbat, allegorically? The point of writing a Torah blog is to understand the Torah as fully as possible. Sometimes an attempt...

(Itemized accounts, aephod, Hhoshen, robe, tunic, headband, tabernacle, setting up-anointing the tabernacle, cloud covers tent of meeting)

Closely Approaching God thru Experience God wants us to be close. HaShem does not need to eat, nor have a need for us to sacrifice from...

Ascension Offering, Striving to Contain Exhaustion Parashat Tsaw begins with the phrase: זאת תורת העלה “This is the Torah of the...

Estranged Fire – Drunkenness, Disheveled In the chapter before parashat Sh’mini (chapter 8 of Leviticus), Moshe anoints not only Aharon,...

Scattering about, and becoming Shook Up So much of ancient Judaism concerns itself with the opposite concepts of being ritually impure...

(Ritual purification from, (if poor), regarding an afflicted house, impure discharge, seminal discharge, menstrual discharge) This blog...

God’s Bringing Forth of Existence is in the Cloud In the opening paragraph of parashat Acharay mot, there are a number of reasons - both...

(various holy behaviors: respecting parents-shabbat, rules regarding eating peace offerings, gleanings, don’t be deceitful, don’t profane...

Regarding God, Don’t Miss the Tree for the Forest The verb KaHaeN (כהן) means “to perform with precise and mindful intention” or “to give...

Bringing into View God’s Bringing Forth of Existence Last week’s blog emphasized that embedded within the tapestry of our lives there are...

(Positive consequences of observing laws-Negative-casualness, Vows-valuations-consecrations-redemptions-Jubilee) This blog has not yet...

Camps of Establishing Mental Presence The opening parashah of the book of B’midbar in some ways is fairly simple thematically. Chapter...

Elevating One’s Seeing One must be vigilant when observing experience, not only to guard against dangers, but also to become aware of the...

Enlightenment to Engagement, to Complaint-Laziness At the end of the previous parashah, Moshe enters the tent of meeting and hears “the...

Spying Out What Oppressively Draws in of Experience In parashath Sh’lah (שלח), the people are instructed to send men to spy out the land...

A Sin of Festering Over the Details of Experience In the previous parashah, God sent us to dispose ourselves (ארץ)1 to what oppressively...

Engaging Experience, Despite Being Afraid Hhuqat: The Israelites failed to willingly accept God’s challenge to enter into what was...

The Failure of Prognosticating Experience Beyond all other considerations, the purpose of life is to live it. With our advanced brains...