Headshot of the author, Rabbi Jill Borodin

Vayikra: A Model for Transparent Leadership

by Rabbi Jill Borodin
I yearn to live in a generation where everyone, including our leaders, recognizes that leaders sin; where our leaders admit their mistakes, are held accountable, and where they actively make amends.
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Ki Tisa: Democracies and Holiness Require Open Space

by Rabbi Andrea Goldstein
Only from an open and spacious heart can I experience a connection to what is holy. When I am focused on what I want and need, or when I am filled up with my own sense of righteousness, then what I have created within is actually a Golden Calf instead of my own small sanctuary.
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Tetzaveh: Meet the Darkness with a Persistent Light

by Rabbi Jay LeVine
We need each other’s lights. A friend, colleague, or ally — perhaps even those we consider adversaries — have the sacred potential to ignite in us the lamp of tamid consciousness and the willingness to widen our circles and give ourselves to the tasks of care, compassion, advocacy, and love.
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Headshot of Rabbi Allan Berkowitz

Terumah: How Much is a Human Being Worth?

by Rabbi Allan Berkowitz
Theologically speaking, to be human is to be sacred. Full stop. During human engagement, when we remain mindful of the sanctity of the other person, we bring acknowledgment of our shared holiness and further elevate the other and ourselves.
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Watch: Israel-Hamas War Public Webinars

by Rabbi Allan Berkowitz
Since the attacks on October 7, T'ruah has offered public webinars for prayer and mourning, to engage with the moral challenges of the war, and to hear from staff who traveled to the region.
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Rabbi Hannah Spiro

Toldot: There Are No Perfect Heroes

by Rabbi Hannah Spiro
Today, we still struggle to recognize the gray within our heroes as well as within our ideological opponents. We jump to point out the hypocrisy, unethical behavior, and dearth of compassion in our enemies, while doing everything possible to underplay that of our allies — and, of course, ourselves.
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Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson

Vayera: War Ethics from Kabbalah

by Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson
What feels so hard in this moment is that I don’t know what the right course of action is. One of the problems I see in the world’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack is a preponderance of either Chesed or Gevurah thinking.
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Rabbi Karen Bender and HUC student Samantha Thal

Sukkot: Sukkot and the Human Right of Dwelling Safely

by Rabbi Karen Bender and Samantha Thal
Perhaps Sukkot is the festival of understanding our journey, for journeys have no concrete and steel foundations, only earth and sandy feet. And the yearning that should come out of this collective memory must be a passionate commitment to end homelessness everywhere, physical, spiritual, or national.
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Rabbi Guy Austrian

Ha’Azinu: Learning From Our Ancestors with Humility and Chutzpah

by Rabbi Guy Austrian
We find that we have to learn from our ancestors with a dual dose of humility and chutzpah: both to learn from their wisdom, and also to transcend their limitations.
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Taking Time: A Resource for Shabbat by Rabbi Jill Jacobs

by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
God, according to the Torah, created the world in six days and then rested on the seventh. This doesn’t mean that the world was perfect at the end of the sixth day of creation. Rather, God models the necessity of taking just one day to experience the world as it is, while acknowledging our own limitations in perfecting it.
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