70 FACES OF TORAH

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The Comfort Of Our Own Significance (Parashat Va’Etchanan, Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
Seventy Faces of Torah is a pluralistic Jewish scriptural comm...
By Rabbi Emma Kippley-Ogman Every week, we invite our ancient prophets to address us through the haftarah (the prophetic
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“Where We Stopped Along the Way” (Parshat Matot/Masei, Numbers 30:2-36:13)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
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by Rabbi Minna Bromberg The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, NY was a refuge for me and for my mother before
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Change from the Inside (Parshat Pinchas, Numbers 25:1-30:1)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
Seventy Faces of Torah is a pluralistic Jewish scriptural comm...
  In a time when many of us long to be able to “do something,” to repair even a small part of an increasingly broken world
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On the Impact of What We Say, and How We See (Parashat Balak, Numbers 22:2-25:9)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
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By Rabbi Dr. Michael Shire It was only a few months ago that we saw graphic and horrific images of refugee children dying
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When Mourning Is Not Yet Done (Parshat Hukkat, Numbers 19:1-22:1)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
Seventy Faces of Torah is a pluralistic Jewish scriptural comm...
Shabbat can function as a break from the unbearably real. We spend our week not only consumed by our personal struggles, large
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”The Girl Who Said No” (Parshat Korach, Numbers 16:1-18:32)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
Seventy Faces of Torah is a pluralistic Jewish scriptural comm...
I run from confrontation.  The very thought of disagreeing with someone makes me breathless.  Yet, as a rabbi, I have to
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The Unattainable Destination Shapes Our Journey (Parshat Shelach Lecha, Numbers 13:1-15:41)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
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By Rabbi Becky Silverstein I once owned a refrigerator magnet that read, “It’s not about the destination, it’s about the
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All Who "Wander" Are Not Lost (Parshat B’ha’alotcha, Numbers 8:1-12:16)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
Seventy Faces of Torah is a pluralistic Jewish scriptural comm...
Like many of us, I found out about the Orlando massacre on Shavuot. It was a terrifying and terrible moment. Once again, our
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How Far We Haven’t Come (Parshat Naso, B’midbar 4:21-7:89)
By Seventy Faces of Torah, Contributor
Seventy Faces of Torah is a pluralistic Jewish scriptural comm...
There should be a name for the particular sense of pride, the utter self-righteousness, that arises when we modern readers
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The Forgetful Sands of the Wilderness (Parshat B'midbar, Numbers 1:1-4:20)
By Ariel Mayse, Contributor
Director of Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Modern J...
God's self-revelation and the giving of the Torah at Sinai was followed by the sin of the Golden Calf, and then the command to build the Tabernacle and thus establish a dwelling place for God amidst the physical world.
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Back to the Garden (Parshat Behukotai, Leviticus 26:3-27:34)
By Alicia Jo Rabins, Contributor
Writer, musician and Torah teacher
It makes sense that the utopian promise is not heaven, but earth. Our ancestors, pre-factory-farm, understood the miraculous elegance of a functional ecosystem.
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The Bells That Still Can Ring: On Rest and Action (Parshat Behar, Leviticus 25:1-26:2)
By Rabbi Susan P. Fendrick, Contributor
Editor, Center for Global Judaism at Hebrew College and Editor...
It is a year of complete freedom for the land and humanity alike, a do-over year, a time to begin all over again. In this context of new beginnings, the choice of Yom Kippur as the day on which to proclaim the Jubilee year does make some spiritual sense.
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The Human Soul is a Candle of God: Finding Meaning in Existence (Parashat Emor, Leviticus 21:1-24:23)
By Rabbi Daniel Klein, Contributor
Director of Admissions for the Rabbinical School of Hebrew Col...
My wife's grandmother is 94 years old. She lives alone in the same house she has lived in for decades. She is remarkably healthy, but is at an age when many people would have already moved into a retirement community or an assisted living facility. But she has no interest in moving.
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Beyond Ghosts and Familiar Spirits: Finding Holiness in the Old and the New (Parshat Kedoshim, Leviticus 19:1-20:27)
By Michael Joseph Brown, Ph.D., Contributor
Scholar of Christian Origins
We are on a multi-layered journey. On the Jewish holiday calendar, after leaving Egypt two weeks ago with all the attendant fear and drama of Passover we are moving steadily toward the holiday of Shavuot--on which we celebrate the revelation of the Torah--and thus toward Mt. Sinai.
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The Mothers of the Priests (Parshat Acharei Mot, Leviticus 16:1-18:30)
By Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson, Contributor
Director of Education at T'ruah
Parshat Acharei Mot closes with a long list of the sexual partners forbidden to men, continuing the apparent male-centric nature of the text. On its most obvious level, the women in this parashah are there mainly as passive objects, or are simply absent.
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Violence and Vision (Passover: 7th day, Exodus 13:17-15:26; 8th day, Deuteronomy 15:10-16:17)
By Jonathan Wittenberg, Contributor
Rabbi
The ancient rabbis chose Isaiah's vision of peace on earth as the prophetic reading to accompany the Torah reading for the 8th day of Passover, the Festival of Freedom.
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Liberation: A Sacred Moment (Passover; Readings for First Days -- Exodus 12:21-51 and Leviticus 22:26-23:44)
By Rabbi Arthur Green, Contributor
Rector, Rabbinical School at Hebrew College
On the second day of Passover, Jews begin a period called sefirat ha-omer, when we publicly count off each day for the next 50, concluding with the holiday of Shavuot. (Hence the Greek term Pentecost, for the 50th day.)
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