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...

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...

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...