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

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

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...

Ki Tavo is the storytelling parasha. In it, we read that a farmer, flushed with pride at their new crops, is to bring the bikkurim, the...

The Rambam, in his Laws of Repentance, says that Yom Kippur attones for sins between us and God, but that things that go wrong between...

All the feels in a field... So much of our lives are dedicated to finding comfort and ease, but the Torah has great wisdom in this week's...

The gap between what is and what should be... that seems to be the stuff of the world right now. But so it ever was as we see in this...

In couples therapy, a method of bridging divides is to get each individual to articulate the perspective of the other, even using the...

Some Torah I learnt from a beloved teacher, Maureen Kendler z"l. The phrase "striking up a conversation" is resonant in this parasha, as...

When a Rabbi and Rabbinical student go on holiday they speak about... exactly what you'd expect them to speak about! So great to share...

What should have been a 2-week walk from Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land (I calculated it on Google Maps) turns out to be a 40-year...

The desert grumbling intensifies in this week's Parasha, Behaalotecha. It has always astonished me that our memory of a difficult past...

"I've been through the desert on a horse with no name... in the desert, you can't remember your name" Singer, Dewey Bunell, wrote these...

Sharing some Torah from my final exam day! Why does our halakhic tradition preserve the individual, dissenting, and rejected opinions? So...

"Proclaim liberty in the land" says this week's parasha, Behar. We need liberty and release more than ever in this hurting world. I'm...

One of my favourite mantras when a Torah parasha is challenging is: "the Torah is the first word, not the last word." This week's...

I love the Gemara's idea that "placing a stumbling block before the blind" could look like inciting anger in another - riling them up so...

I feel very fortunate to live in a country where people can speak freely and love having the opportunity to contribute to the diversity...