While the distressing news continues, Maharat students have been fortunate to come together in New York. It's always so great to be with...

The midrash says that God created multiple worlds before settling on our one. Click here to watch Miriam's 60 second video sermon. But...

This week 60 seconds is on the paradoxes of Sukkot with Cameos from Waffle the cat and schach leaves already blown down before Sukkot has...

Haazinu is a song. The song part of Moshe's swansong before he leaves the world. As we approach Yom Kippur, which R.Alan Lew describes as...

This week Miriam Lorie is joing by Rabbi Oliver Joseph in his beautiful sukkah to talk Torah. This weekend we read "Vezot haBracha", the...

Are you in the camp of people who love the big themes of Rosh Hashanah? Or in the "this is all too heavy, where can I hide?" camp? Our...

In this week's 60 second video Miriam suggests you listen to this song, which puts these gorgeous Torah words to music. There have been...

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...