by Rabbi Misha
The world has gone mad. Human beings have abandoned morality. One person alone remains righteous and blameless. This person will save us from extinction.
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by Rabbi Misha
I’ve been spending a lot of time with my brother, Tari, a Buddhism scholar from a mountain village near Jerusalem, whose been here for the last few weeks.
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by Rabbi Misha
It’s like some kind of ancient spell. You say certain words, throw some ingredients into water, wear certain clothes and put your fist to your chest.
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by Rabbi Misha
This week I’ve been getting excited. Yes, the world rages on. The stupidity knows no bounds. One of the worst leaders we’ve known is speaking at the UN as I write.
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by Rabbi Misha
When you go to the theater there is one moment you can always count on to be beautiful, and that’s when the house lights go down on the crowd and the play is about to begin.
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by Rabbi Misha
In a famous exchange between Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt following the publication of The Banality of Evil, Scholem accused Arendt of having no love for the Jewish people.
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by Rabbi Misha
For a couple of weeks I couldn’t get this one Hasidic niggun out of my head...
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by Rabbi Misha
For a couple of weeks I couldn’t get this one Hasidic niggun out of my head...
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by Rabbi Misha
As the world jumps up and down, throwing my heart around, grabbing at my attention with all its sparkling might...
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by Rabbi Misha
“Would you kill a baby chicken for a billion dollars?” This was the question Manu posed to me as part of our morning prayers today. My heavy-handed response that followed was a reflection of the troubling effect this week’s events had on my soul. “Do you know what a sin is,” I recall myself asking. “No,” said my seven-year-old.
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by Rabbi Misha
In the upside down ways of the world, people want to win. “Total victory,” says one leader, "I didn’t lose, I won big,” says another.
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by Rabbi Misha
Please forgive me in advance for stepping out this week of my rabbinic frame of mind and inhabiting my position as a concerned Israeli living in the US. I won’t be invoking the tradition today, which means I won’t be talking about morality, humanity, responsibility and love.
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by Rabbi Misha
In honor of the arrival of summer, two Iberian poems to drive us out of the never-fading anxiousness about the state of the world and into the plain reality of this beautiful season:
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by Rabbi Misha
As somehow always happens when you study the Book of Job, we ended up chewing on Job’s final words. We were already in hour three or four of our wonderful Tikkun Leil Shavuot this week, which focused on Job, when the words were spoken:
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by Rabbi Misha
Amazingly in synch with the times, this Shabbat’s parashah deals with reward and punishment.
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