Etrog: The Official Fruit of the Bar Kochba Revolt? - Oct 4, 2023 - Evidence of the significance of the etrog and arba minim to Bar Kochba's revolt, from coins and letters. And asking why this was so important to them.

Derashah: Yom Kippur - Two Wars. Two Goats. Two Jews. - Sep 28, 2023 - The religious experiences reflected by the שעיר לד' and the שעיר לעזאזל, matching the very different experiences of the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War.

Derashah: Rosh HaShanah: Existimare Aude! - Sep 28, 2023 - A derashah for Rosh Hashanah: The shofar's call to transcend the intellectual and open up to what we feel.

Derashah: Etrog: Promise and Danger - Sep 28, 2023 - A derashah for Succot. Why do we use the esrog, which may have been the fruit of the Eitz haDaas, for the arba minim with which we daven for rain on Succot?

Derashah: The Succah and My Noachide Wedding - Sep 28, 2023 - Derashah for the first day of Succot, on Hashem's decision to give the nations the mitzvah of succah, and to thwart their efforts to sit in it.

Medical Treatment on Shabbat 7: Safek Pikuach Nefesh, Sakkanat Eiver - Sep 27, 2023 - Defining "safek pikuach nefesh"; understanding the issue of "sakkanat eiver" and applying it to teeth and fertility treatments.

Peace and Kanaut in Our Polarized World - Sep 21, 2023 - A Teshuvah Derashah: Is outrage ever good? How do we know when outrage is good? How can we steer clear of outrage, in a world where it is so prevalent? And how does this relate to our personal teshuvah process?

Medical Treatment on Shabbat 6: Hutrah vs. Dechuyah - Sep 20, 2023 - Returning to the issue of providing whatever is "normal" treatment. And is Shabbat הותרה or דחויה to save lives?

Avinu Malkeinu: Concession or Complementary? - Sep 20, 2023 - Is Malkeinu (our Monarch) a concession to reality if we don't qualify for Hashem to be Avinu (our Parent)? Or are Avinu and Malkeinu two complemntary roles, and we want both father and king?

Medical Treatment on Shabbat 5: Saving Lives, Part 1 - Sep 13, 2023 - How we know that saving lives overrides Shabbat; applications of the argument of חלל שבת אחת; which actions are approved in caring for someone whose life is in danger.