by Yael Turitz Kaplan '27 I’ve been thinking a lot about blessings lately. This summer, I am privileged to be completing a unit of...

by Rabbanit Dalia Davis '22 The six-word memoir is a succinct and trendy way to summarize one’s life. At workshops and conferences around...

by Anna Veronese '28 This dvar Torah is dedicated to the many smart women of Yeshivat Maharat, with whom I have the honor to learn. A...

by Rabbi Yali Szulanski Parshat Shelach opens with stunning possibilities. The people of Israel stand at the edge of fulfillment, poised...

by Rabbi Marianne Novak ' 19 When I was an offsite student at Maharat, I was privileged to be able to come into the Beit Midrash once a...

The Talmud Yerushalmi asks a deceptively simple question, “How were the tablets written?” After a debate about the number of commandments...

by Susan Hornstein '25 Our parsha opens with the laws of Shemittah, the Sabbatical year. Shemittah has it all! It has every kind of...

by Anna Eisenstat Rimerman '27 Our parsha introduces a deeply challenging concept: ritual limitations for “a person with a blemish,” “ish...

by Yehudit Mazur-Shlomi '27 Parshat Acharei Mot, or After the Death, begins with instructions given to Aaron after the tragic passing of...

by Sofia Freudenstein '25 In Bava Metzia 86a, there is a very unusual story about Rabba Bar Nachmani, on the run from Babylonian...

by Michal Fox Smart '28 Why would anyone volunteer to write a parsha blog due the week before Pesach? I will explain. The spreadsheet for...

by Chana Borrow '26 Growing up, I thought I understood the Passover seder. It was simple: tell the story, eat dinner, find the afikoman ....

by Chanchkie Slavin '26 I wonder what it means to be free? We talk about it, celebrate it, even dedicate a whole festival to it. But what...

On the seventh day of Pesach, we will read "Shirat ha-Yam" (the Song of the Sea) marking a joyous celebration within the Exodus. At this...

by Ariel Wolgel '26 What can we say when sorry just isn’t enough? How might we proceed when we cannot find the words to move through...

by Rabbanit Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld '19 Mishlei 3:19-20 describes wisdom as a primordial force that existed prior to creation: The LORD...

by Shoshana Jakobovits '26 The beginning of the book of Shemot is absolutely breathtaking: the burning bush, ten plagues, the Exodus from...

by Lilinaz Evans '27 One of the most striking moments in parshat Ki Tissa is the intimate, direct communication between God and Moshe....

Rava said, “A person is obligated to become intoxicated on Purim until they are unable to distinguish between ‘cursed is Haman’ and...

by Jennifer Zukerman '28 When I was about seven years old, my mother asked me to see if the mail had been delivered. I returned to report...