The Tension that is Tanakh
Yaakov Beasley looks at Hayyim Angel's scholarship and evaluates it as an exemplar of Modern Orthodox Bible study.
A Night of Watching in the House of the Rav
Bezalel Naor translates and contextualizes a poem by Pinchas Peli about the home of Rav Kook.
A Story Well Lived
In this essay, Thomas P. Balázs considers Edgar Allan Poe as a springboard to consider what makes a life meaningful
נמשלת ללבנה
נמשלת ללבנה
ניסן תשפ׳ו
שושנה הברמן
והוצאתי
והצלתי
וגאלתי
.ולקחתי
כאיילת השחר שבקע אורה
,כך היא גאולתן של ישראל
,בתחילה קימעא קימעא
כל מה שהיא הולכת
.היא רבה, והולכת
?היינו כחולמים
-בזמן שהרועה תועה
.תועין אחריו
-אבל אפילו בצל...
Three Sonnets
Jeffrey Burghauser's three poems draw on the biblical and rabbinic imagination.
Anonymous Leadership: The Emotional Drama in Ishay Ribo’s Seder ha-Avodah
Shira Hecht-Koller and Aaron Koller explore the worship of the Kohen Gadol through the voice of Ishay Ribo.
I Am Stirring the Chicken Soup in Circles and Thinking
A new poem by Hannah Butcher-Stell, on love and loss.
Not Everything I Needed to Know in Life I Learned in Rabbinical School
Nathaniel Helfgot reflects on all of the things he needed to know as a rabbi that he didn’t learn in rabbinical school.
The Dark Side of Torah u-Madda: Chaim Potok and Core-to-Core Cultural Confrontation
The debate about Torah u-Madda and pop culture continues. Noah Marlowe argues that Chaim Potok's literature offers a useful conceptual framework for, and embodiment of, a profound confrontation between Judaism and elite elements of general culture.
Contemporary Poetry and Mystical Intimacy
Award-winning poet Yehoshua November offers his thoughts on the connection between mystical intimacy and poetry.
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