Rachel exposes herself as she never has before. Through poetry, photography, and an essay, Rachel exposes her fears and journey towards Jewish observance.
I am in a classical art gallery in London and the portraits all blur into a crowd of static, monotonous...
Describing the era immediately preceding the Big Bang and ensuing inception of life as we know it, the Kabbalists describe how this unified intelligence shattered, sending sparks of primordial light throughout what would soon become our entire universe. These luminescent shards of the ultimate source-code remain hidden away to this day, concealed in mundane aspects of our life, waiting for someone to come along and decode the message
This practice of our particular brand of loving is an unnerving and relentless remembering.
I needed to find the meaning in all this. I found two rabbis who comforted me, one from the Talmud, and one from Ohio.
I’m writing this letter to you. What happens when you, only you, define your self-worth?
The power of silence, the limits of words... in essay form.
Knowing other souls: glorious, but maybe the end of fun.
I was made for breaking. I am built from the raw material of utter destruction, every fissure
bursting with crumpled petition.
I spent a year with Chabad Hasidim in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I exulted, starkly disagreed, and considered glorious possibilities—often in the same moment.