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Parshat Vayechi: Power Cannot Understand True Kindness
Parshas Vayigash: On the Dangers of Building Pyramids
The Devar Torah as a Written Form
Reminder: ParshaSalon Miketz-Vayigash
The Great Apikores of Warsaw: A New Critical Edition Based on Manuscripts
Parshas Miketz: Power and Prophecy Fulfillment
Parshas Yayeshev: On Not Breaking Character
Parshat Vayishlach: Why Must You Know My Name?
Parsha Salon Resumes; Parshat Vayishlach
Vayetzei: On Feminist (Re?)Interpretation of the Torah
Devar Torah Toldot: Yitzchak In The Field of Forking Paths.
Things I Noticed Going Through The Parsha (Toldot)
The Peshat and Derash of Sacrifice
Scattered Thoughts on The Situation
Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikva Frymer Kensky
Parshas Lech Lecha: Finding God in the Dark
It is Not Good for Man to be Alone
Noach: Uniformity vs. Diversity
It is Not Good for Man to be Alone
A Couple of Old Divrei Torah on Bereishis
Fleeing From God and God's Image
Sukkot as the Resolution of Doubt
Yom Kippur Thoughts: Sinning and Returning, Sinning and Returning
On Orthodox Judaism and The Left: A Response to Rabbi Weisinger
Parshat Vayelech: Won't Someone Think of the Children?!
Nitzavim: The Radicalism of "It is not in Heaven"
What I Wish Orthodox Rabbis Understood About the People They Write Off
One Year Anniversary of This Substack
Pickup Basketball as Torah She'Baal Peh
Parshas Shoftim: On the Anti-Monarchy/Anti-Imperial Tradition in Judaism
Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Sandwich?
Oh No, Area Man Has Take on Tanur Shel Achnai
Social Media Will Stunt Your Emotional Growth
More Thoughts on Prescriptive vs. Descriptive, or: How to Organize a Library
How do we Turn This Place into a Community?
Humans are Flow/Trance Seeking Creatures
Inceldom and The Spirit of Capitalism
Being on the Spectrum, Other People's Feelings, and Secondhand Anxiety
Mareh Mekomos: Parshas Pinchas
A Hypothesis About Pachad Yitzchak
Parshas Chukas: The Bitter(?) Waters of Miriam
An Experiment in Devar Torah Brainstorming
NFL Coaching Trees and Halakhic History
Guest Post by R. Avigayil Halpern: Korach: Human and Divine Exposures
On Being "One of The Good Ones"
Parshas Shelach: The Plot of the Spies
Parshas Behaaloscha: On Novelty and Routine
On God's Pronouns: A Speculation
Episode One: Shaul, At the End and Beginning
It's Not (Really) About the Pronouns
An Observation About Women's Torah Authority in Orthodoxy
Parshas Bamidbar: Counting the Leviim
Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich
Parshas Emor: You Can't Celebrate Without Other People
Parshas Tazria Metzora: Lashon Hara as Epidemic
Where Did All The Prophets Go?
Resonance: Understanding Prophecy and Divine Providence
Parshas Shemini: Overdosing on God
Parshat Vayikra: Salt vs. Honey
Steel-Manning Complaints About Cancel Culture
Shabbos 9 with R. Aryeh Bernstein
Parshat Ki Tisa: The Intimacy of Separation
Parshat Tetzaveh: On the Stones of the Eiphod
Parshat Terumah: On Creating Spaces
Parshas Mishpatim: We Are Not Things
Parshas Yisro: What Did Yisro Actually Invent
Hypothetical History: A New Post Series
Parshas Beshalach: Mon as the Permitted Fruit
Why I'm Going to Try to Minimize My Social Media Use
Parshas Bo: We All Go or No One Goes
Parshas Va'era: Hearts Hardened By Power