This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Toledot. She reflects: "It's one of the biggest questions in the Torah for me, and one with a clear answer despite religious commentaries (particularly the newer ones) tying themselves in knots to justify our Avot and Imahot's flawed human behaviour. Glad to have the Ramban and Radak onside for this one. "[Yaakov] was punished for initiating such a sale because he had upset the norms of civilised society by d

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Lech Lecha. She reflects: "Lech Lecha starts our people's particular story, but it also shows us our dignified place among other dignified people's stories, and our role in relation to the whole world. We cannot have one without the other. Let's remember both this Shabbat." Watch the full video and hear her full teaching:

As we begin the Torah anew with Bereishit, Rabbi Miriam invites us to reflect on the timeless lessons of our first parasha. She says: ”This first parasha of the Torah contains so many heartbreaking truths about humanity - our innate competitiveness, our need to possess and have power over others, our capacity for violence... but I believe also our incredible capacity for self-reflection and progress.”

This week, Rabbi Miriam Lorie invites us into her succah to reflect on vulnerability in a 90-second video sermon. Torah: "You shall dwell...

Rabbi Miriam Lorie is joined by her friend Reveredn Catriona Laing and together they share their thoughts on Parshat Ki Teitzei in a 90-second video reflection.

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Vaetchanan. She reflects: "When life doesn't go the way we'd always...

This week, Rabbi Miriam Lorie brings together Parshat Pinchas  and Pride and Prejudice  in a 90-second video reflection. She shares: "I...

This week’s video sermon invites us into a conversation between Rabbi Miriam and her friend and Yeshivat Maharat scholar, Sarah-Beth...

This week, Rabbi Miriam is in New York celebrating the ordination of a new cohort of female rabbis at Maharat. While there, she reunited...

90 second sermons are back! This week, Rabbi Miriam brings us a dose of 'spiritual sunshine' from her rainy back garden, raincoat and...

With Pesach just one week away, Rabbi Miriam offers a powerful pre-Pesach chizzuk  (encouragement) in a recent Instagram reel. Drawing...

It's Tu b'Shvat tonight and tomorrow - watch below for more... "How to stay grounded (pun intended) in worrying, upsetting times? We've...

This week, Rabbi Miriam is joined by her friend, chevruta and therapist, Abi Symons. Watch along here: Rabbi Miriam explains further: "Bo...

This week’s parsha, Va’era, invites us to reflect on the challenge of speaking up when it feels impossible. Rabbi Miriam Lorie, in her...

"It was sobering to meet the son of a hostage this Chanukah, and the niece of another. Their lives are suspended with worry and fear, and...

A 90 second sermon for Vayishlach from Rabbi Miriam Lorie! In a tight spot as he approaches the potentially dangerous Esav, our ancestor...

This week Rabbi Miriam's video sermon is live from Frankfurt, Germany. "Hello from Frankfurt! Being in the home city of my great...

The Torah is a book for grown ups. Just dig into the first few verses of our parasha, Toldot, and we find deep themes around infertility...

"Bakol mikol kol" - "in everything, from everything, everything" It's more than just a catchy line in benching (grace after meals). As...

90 second musings on the week and the parasha on a grey old English afternoon with Hannah Gaventa. Before Avraham was "Avraham Avinu" he...