It's Ellul! It's 2 weeks until Rosh Hashanah! It's my bat mitzvah sedra Ki Tavo! Bring on the ceremonies, symbols and metaphorical...

The Jewish week of love, book of love and parasha of love. I've always wondered what the shema means when it asks us to "love God with...

This week Miriam Lorie is joined by her friend, Rabbi Joe Wolfson. Rabbi Joe Wolfson brings a beautiful Ramban on what it means to fo...

The good kind of slippery slope? That's what this one is about. I can't tell you how many people I meet who say "I've checked out of...

Ok so everyone is keen to point out why Korach is such a baddie in this week's parasha and don't get me wrong, I don't disagree. But...

It's in this week's parasha where a black hole of death takes place, unmentioned, eerily skipped. But I think there's a hint as to mass...

This week Miriam is in Maharat, New York and is joined by her colleague, @sofia_freudenstein on her BIRTHDAY! Can they go from the...

Content warning - suicide The Torah does not shy away from this heavy subject, nor does it minimise it or surround it with shame. On the...

Sending blessings - in contents as well as wishes - from the Lake District... #shabbatshalom #parasha #nasso #dvartorah

We're ALL counted so we ALL count! Err not quite. At least in this limited human world. Gratitude to the scholar and meditation leader...

he Torah is a deep dark book. And I'm not making up the connection with the garden of Eden because one line in Bechukotai says that if we...

What is the essence of Shabbat? How can we keep the spirit of Shabbat beyond the letter of the laws? And how does this effect this...

A topic close to my heart and that of @kehillat_nashira Until the work is done to heal some of the damage done over the years using the...

Imagine living in a world where your hidden actions were displayed for all to see. No thank you! But the more veiled world we live in...

It has been a difficult week for many of us. If anyone has been affected by recent awful events with what happened to the Dee family, and...

Leavened and unleaved bread in this week's Torah portion, on Pesach, and in within US! Indebted in these ideas to my teacher Rav Alex...

60 (yeh, ish) second sermon on this week's double parasha and how the exact same activity can feel very different when we apply a new...

60 second sermon time (gah ok still 80 but who will begrudge Miriam 20 seconds more Torah?) #parasha #kitissa #goldencalf #Torah #idols #...

Miriam's first 60 second sermon (ok 80seconds, I'll get better) - hat tip to Rev Chris the INVENTOR of the genre! Having been writing...