Poor Moshe. Attacked by his very own cousin! Who then is swallowed up by the earth! Oh my. Our home, “Our Cousin from Lublin” is quite the interesting match. Take a listen...

Shelach/Yehiuda Amichai

Join Adrienne and Rivy for a lively conversation about the desert. We will read the poem by Josephine miles and we will explore the idea of what does it mean for the people Israel to venture forth into the desert on the way to the promised land.

The Suspected Wife and the Nazerite. Seen through the lens of John Donne. Vows. Suspicion. Loyalty. Put to the test.

This is the year of the census. This is the ParSHA of the census and now we’ve got the poem of the census. What’s with all the counting?

What is land? Why must it rest? What is America?

The alienated, the one who curses God. Let’s take a look at what it is to be an outsider. Oh and a poem by John Clare, the romantic.

Truth? Not so simple. It is absolutely diabolical to lie. But what about white lies to spare people’s feelings?

Join us for a lively conversation about gossip. Always maligned, for good reason, it could be downright harmful. But might there be a positive upside of gossip? Leprosy notwithstanding-that is...

This week we discuss the two sons of Aaron who are motivated by love? By ecstasy? By personality? - to offer a strange fire. They perish. Moshe comforts his brother Aaron, “God has said, through those who are close to me I will be holy.”