This week, Rabbi Miriam is joined by her colleague, Rabbanit Tali Aronsky to share a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Matot-Masei. She introduces this sermon with: !Hello from Yerushalaim! So great to be with Rabbanit Tali Aronsky, one of over 150 Rabbis gathered at the Rabbinic Torah Seminar. Yesterday, a lecturer shared that in the face of despair at a broken political reality, many people are turning inwards to their family or small community and saying "here is a place

This week, Rabbi Miriam is joined by her chevruta, Rabba Wendy Amsellem to share a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Chukat. Come along for a condensed yet deep mini chevruta (chavrutette?) Rabba Wendy Amsellem, teacher extraordinaire, showed me a pretty challenging midrash on a verse from this week's parasha, Chukat. On a seemingly obscure verse about "the law of a person (Torat Adam) who dies within a tent" the midrash brings us the voice of the first ever Adam. His challe

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Korach. She reflects: "A 90 second sermon for Korach, or rather for his family who managed to separate themselves from his unsavory, ambitious ways, and who went on to write some of the most beautiful Psalms in the book. One of these, Psalm 49, is read at most Shiva houses and becomes a blueprint for how Jews think of wealth, power and mortality."

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Shelach Lecha. She reflects: "Our parasha contains a huge story. But what about the back story?" Click below to find out: We All Stood Together - By Merle Feld|for Rachel Adler My brother and I were at Sinai He kept a journal of what he saw of what he heard of what it all meant to him I wish I had such a record of what happened to me there It seems like every time I want to write I can’t I’m always holding a