Chukat

Facing the climate change disaster means facing one another with respect and sincere empathy. Only then can we manage the amount of work it will take to fix that in which each of us has a stake.

I like to imagine that Balaam’s words changed us and shook us out of our complaining so that we could see ourselves in a fresh way.

Our Torah depicts what can happen to us in a world without water... Moses striking the rock to yield water is a vivid metaphor for the water-related violence that is breaking out all over our world — particularly in the Middle East, as well as in South Asia and Africa.

Rabbinical Student and T'ruah board member Kelly Whitehead on Juneteenth and collective memory.

And at some point, I looked down at my hands and my children’s hands, spotless from washing, no dirt under our nails, and I thought about the historical chain of racist violence and state-sanctioned brutality that our hands grasped. Our social system makes certainty of our cleanliness an impossibility. Quite the opposite: we are all unclean, no matter how much we may have washed.

For Parshat Chukat, Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz offers us a more useful way to channel our anger.

For Parshat Chukat, Rabbi Benjamin Barnett writes about the challenges facing Israel's Bedouin.

Rabbi Jesse Olitzky writes about Parshat Chukat.

For Parshat Chukat, Rabbi Jill Hausman writes about selfishness.