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Beshalach: Scarcity and Sustenance — What Is Enough?

In a time when manna no longer falls from the sky, its ethic becomes our responsibility. By rejecting the culture of excess, using Shabbat as a tool of resistance, and fostering communities of care, we can work toward building the society that our parshah invites us to imagine.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs’ prayer for Minnesota, National Prayer Call for Minnesota 1.23.26

Words of prayer from Rabbi Jill Jacobs in support of Minnesota.

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What To Do With Unbearable Suffering

by Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman brings the Piaseczna Rebbe's teachings on Chayei Sara to our own times.
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Report from El Paso, November 2019

by Rabbi Jill JAcobs
A firsthand account from Rabbi Jill Jacobs, T'ruah Executive Director, of the joint T'ruah-HIAS border delegation, November 2019.
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Where We Go Forth To Meet Each Other

by Rabbi Sandra Lawson
Rabbi Sandra Lawson shares the Torah of her own family's Lech Lecha moments and the value of meeting people across difference that she has learned from all of them.
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Opening the Window

by Ruth Messinger
Ruth Messinger reflects on climate change, the biblical flood of our own time, in this d'var torah on parashat Noach.
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Torah 20/20: Looking with Fresh Eyes

by Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow
Rabbi Avi Katz Orlow introduces T'ruah's newest project, Torah 20/20, in this d'var torah for Simchat Torah.
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Who Doesn’t Get A Clean Slate This Yom Kippur? 

by Rabbi Marc Katz
Rabbi Marc Katz discusses our criminal justice system's need for authentic belief in teshuvah in this d'var Torah for Yom Kippur.
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Seeing Through the Smoke

by Rabbi Joey Wolf
Rabbi Joey Wolf urges us to find hope for the New Year in each other.
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How Is This Fair?

by Rabbi Amy Small
Rabbi Amy Small asks us to widen the path of justice in this week's d'var Torah on Parshat Shoftim.
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“Act Like You’ve Been There”

by Rabbi Joshua Strom
Rabbi Joshua Strom advises us to "act like we've been there" when we read VaEt'chanan.
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A Trauma-Informed Reading of Parshat Devarim: Advice to Activists on Building Resiliency

by Rabbi Francine Roston
In this week's commentary on Devarim, Rabbi Francine Roston reflects on the need to understand and process trauma before moving forward.
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