Meaningful

Studio G-dcast Six days in San Francisco. Six stories. Twelve artists. Studio G-dcast When Moses ascended to the heavens he saw the letters of the Torah that he had received from God and Given to the...

On the eighth day after a male member of the tribe is born, Jews circumcise the baby boy. In Parshat Ekev, Moses tells the Israelites to circumcise their hearts. No, really! Circumcise their hearts....

There's a lot of counting and measuring, distributing of land and tallying of distance and people in Masei, the last chapter in Bemidbar, the Book of Numbers, which makes sense when you think...

My name is Aaron. You know, Moses’s brother. The guy who was asked to speak for him to Pharaoh because Moses has a stutter. That was seven plagues ago. Since then Egypt's gone through blood,...

At Mt. Sinai, God called upon the Jewish people to be a holy people, partners with God in creating a world of justice for all. In Parashat Shoftim, which means "Judges,"...

Karpas, baytzo, zro’a, charoset, maror... And of course, matza! Aren't I wise? I know all about Passover We were slaves in Egypt then Moses got up in Pharaoh's face with frogs and...

You know that saying, "cheaters never prosper"? In Toldot, we get a story of a cheater who did seem to prosper but at what price? Isaac, the long-awaited son of Abraham and Sarah, is...

Welcome to the book of Bemidbar, the fourth book of the Torah. This chapter, its first, is about a people who want to leave slavery behind. But they’re scared of freedom at the same time. Bemidbar...

There is a curious anomaly, that is there is a curious not-fitting-together-of-ideas in the opening chapter of the Book of Genesis. What did God create on the first day? Everybody knows that. God...

This parsha is the second of three in a row that follow the story of Joseph. Which makes Parshat Miketz sort of like the "Empire Strikes Back" of Torah portions. This episode begins...