“Like a Fleeting Dream”: U-netaneh Tokef, Dreams, and the Meaning of the High Holy...
Man’s actions—even those that seem fleeting and insignificant—can have an impact, positive or negative. Oren Oppenheim explores themes of u-Netaneh Tokef
Before Erev Yom Kippur
In this poem, Mel Waldman considers life and its tribulations over coffee.
The Seder is Anything but Orderly
Why is the Haggadah such a disorganized text? Lehrhaus editor Yosef Lindell offers a strikingly novel approach to the dynamic nature of the Passover seder.
“Like a Fleeting Dream”: U-netaneh Tokef, Dreams, and the Meaning of the High Holy...
Man’s actions—even those that seem fleeting and insignificant—can have an impact, positive or negative. Oren Oppenheim explores themes of u-Netaneh Tokef
The Day After Pardes
Max Hollander analyzes the Talmudic narrative of Pardes and the four rabbis who entered it.
Could It Have Been Different? History According to the Rabbis Joseph Soloveitchik
Can we imagine a world in which the Exodus never occurred? David Curwin suggests that this - as well as a broader dispute about the relationship between Torah and history - is subject to a dispute between The Rav, R. Joseph Dov he-Levi, and his namesake, the Beit ha-Levi.
“Filling In” and “The Poet of Auschwitz”
Two new poems by Temima Weissmann address national calamities, both past and present.
A Day of Remembrance: From Torah Reading to Shofar Blast
Michael Kurin discusses the connections between the Akeidah and the Rosh Hashanah services.
Purim and the Joke of Jewish Sovereignty
Zach Truboff argues that Purim reminds us of our vulnerability even with the State of Israel.
Schrodinger’s Hametz
Leah Cypess imagines the what-ifs of Pesach cleaning.
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