Friday April 25, 2025/27 Nisan 5785 Hevre/Friends, Six years ago Rabbi Donniel Hartman framed the cluster of sacred days that unfold...

Friday April 18, 2025/20 Nisan 5785/Pesach Hevre/Friends, The Torah readings for the days of Passover together retell the epic of our...

Friday April 11, 2025/13 Nisan 5785/Pesach Hevre/Friends, With Pesach just days away, I struggled this week when, at the end of meetings...

Friday April 4, 2025/6 Nisan 5785 Parashat Vayikra Hevre/Friends,   וַיִּקְרָ֖א אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר יְהֹוָה֙ אֵלָ֔יו מֵאֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵ֖ד...

Friday March 28, 2025/28 Adar 5785 Parashat Pekudei/Shabbat Hachodesh Hevre/Friends, This Shabbat - Shabbat Hachodesh - announces the...

Friday March 21, 2025/21 Adar 5785 Parashat Vayakhel Hevre/Friends, Spring has arrived and with it warmer temperatures, melting snow,...

Friday March 14, 2025/14 Adar 5785/Purim Parashat Ki Tisa Hevre/Friends, As Shabbat arrives, the conclusion to the week of shiva for...

Friday March 8, 2025/7 Adar 5785/Shabbat Zachor Parashat Tetzave Hevre/Friends, Yesterday Andi and I had the sweetest pleasure of...

Friday February 28, 2025/30 Sh'vat 5785/Rosh Chodesh Adar Parashat Terumah Friends/Hevre,   Of the many different names for God imagined...

Friday February 14, 2025/16 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat Yitro   Friends/Hevre,   Driving back to New York from Montreal this past Tuesday I did...

Friday February 7, 2025/9 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat B'Shalach/Shabbat Shirah Friends/Hevre,   It’s a tense moment when this week’s portion,...

Friday January 31, 2025/2 Sh'vat 5785 Parashat Bo Friends/Hevre,   Yesterday we welcomed the new month of Sh'vat during which we'll mark...

Friday January 24, 2025/24 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vaera Friends/Hevre,   Emily Damari. Romi Gonen. Doron Steinbrecher. Names seared into our...

Friday January 17, 2025/17 Tevet 5785 Parashat Shemot Friends/Hevre,   Could it really be happening? Could the hostages finally be coming...

Friday January 10, 2025/10 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vayechi Hevre/Friends, In this week’s final portion of the Book of Genesis, as Jacob nears...

Friday December 27, 2024/26 Kislev 5785 Parashat Miketz/Shabbat Hanukkah Hevre/Friends,   On the first night of Hanukkah about 75...

Friday December 20, 2024/19 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayeshev וַיֹּ֕אמֶר-- אֶת־אַחַ֖י אָנֹכִ֣י מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ  [J oseph] answered, I am looking...

Friday December 13, 2024/12 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, This time next week Andi and I will be back in the Laurentians...

Friday December 6, 2024/5 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, When people ask about my experience growing up in the Orthodox...

Friday November 22, 2024/21 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Chaye Sarah Hevre/Friends, The most dramatic story in parashat Chaye Sarah is the one...

It sounds so simple: be grateful for all we have. And yet, there are times when it’s just really hard to feel it.

Yesterday over coffee after a grueling exercise class, I got a loving but firm lecture from my daughter (when did those tables turn?).

Friday November 8, 2024/7 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Lech Lecha Hevre/Friends, In his 2005 essay on holding together the tensions of...

It’s 4:35 in the morning and I’m lying awake waiting to die.  Not that there’s anything wrong with me. Other than the fact I’m convinced...