Life has always been brutal and unfair, and we have always survived and even thrived. That won't change now.
She is a bottomless top-shelf gimlet.
She is built of bloody bruised knuckles.
How to be half-Russian, half-Orthodox, and half-religious, but a whole Jew.
You have been given a special gift: a mother's gut. Now you need to expose its beautiful power.
We changed our lives because of what you told us Judaism stood for. Now we're waiting for you.
Death, you are my hugest fear, but also a sneaky beam of brilliant hope for transcendence.
In Vayishlach, Yaakov is given a new name: Israel. We may learn from Yaakov's life journey that God is always with us even during the darkest days. Through crippling and painful darkness, He never abandons Israel.
No angel of G0d came, no replacement animal happened by the scene. Abraham slashed down at the neck of his blessed son, spilling his blood on the holy mountain.
What will you do with all of this outrageous beauty?
