There's no sin in childbirth, so why does the Torah say a woman brings a sin offering after birth? I think there's something else going...

There are many theories why Nadav and Avihu bring a "foreign fire that was not commanded" which led to their deaths - they were drunk,...

Yesterday I sat my final rabbinical exam in the laws of Jewish mourning, Aveilut. So it felt apt to find something in this week's...

Why does the megilla start with Vashti? First of all, Vashti gets a bad rap, mainly thanks to a set of Babylonian midrash that many of us...

We're often told that the Mishkan (portable desert temple) was built exactly to God's instructions, with the repeating words "kaasher...

Mirror mirror on the wall... in our parasha, Vayakhel, Moshe attempts to refuse the gift of mirrors to the Mishkan on the basis that...

Can a relationship ever heal from betrayal and infidelity? Well, you should absolutely read "The State of Affairs" by the phenomenal...

It's a little hard to relate to these parshiot which describe the Mishkan creation in great detail. But the Yom Kippur song Mareh Cohen...

Happy rainbow unicorns, it turns out, are not an invention of the last five years, or even a medieval invention as Wikipedia would have...

Slavery is wrong. Full stop. And yet its existence in the Torah - moderated but understood as a fact of life - is problematic. There are...

Instagram's caption bot had fun with all my Hebrew this week - very grateful for the edit function! What does a beautiful quail egg have...

Ever experienced things hitting rock bottom, and then when you think they can't get any worse, a breakthrough happens and the situation...

Much can be said about Pharaoh's heart hardening and being heartened and the implications for free will... but today, I'm interested in...

Nearer to 90 seconds this week - but here's Miriam's thoughts on this week's parasha Vaera. Until the final plague, most of the 10...

It's a new year of 90 second sermons and a new sefer - the book of Shemot. Fab to be back with the wonderful Rabbi Joe to share a thought...

This week Miriam’s teacher, Reb Tanya Farber, shared the Hasidic idea of the Chanukah dreidel with its stem above and the Purim gregor...

I love when the Jewish library offers a scavenger hunt. A trail of connecting texts across Torah, Tanach and Rabbinic writing which comes...

Saw you at Sinai? Regular readers of this parasha blog will know that I don’t often take up an explicitly feminist theme. Sure, I’m...

When Harris and I watch Netflix, it’s generally in ten minute chunks, snatched here and there amidst busy lives. On the odd occasion...

Hagar Part II - or the Akeidah of Ishmael Last week we looked at Hagar’s first exile in the desert, and this week she’s there again -...