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 together to tell a story bigger than any of its parts. This week provides such a moment. And from a very unpromising start, we can end up somewhere rather beautiful. Shabbat Zachor, meaning the Shabbat of remembrance, is when we have a deoraita (from the Torah) commandment to remember when Amelek attacked the weakest of the Israelites leavi

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 -...

It’s Shabbat shuva - the shabbat of repentance - and our days before Yom Kippur are slipping away. Very resonant therefore, is our...

The scene is a famous one. Yaakov, on his deathbed, asks to bless Efraim and Menashe, the two grandsons he only came to know at the end...

What is one moment which captures a picture of your resilience in the past two years? Have this question in mind as we learn together....

Boiled eggs, free will and the Hogwarts Sorting Hat Like the hard boiled, burnt egg on our seder plate, with each successive plague...

Tzav, which falls this year on Shabbat haGadol, continues the foray into the world of sanctuary rites and rules that characterise...

Tetzaveh - you’ve got your hands full This is the fashionista’s sedra - full of opulent, exquisite details about clothes. The fabrics,...