I believe from my experiences of being present in the moments of birth and in the moments of death that there lies a remarkable — and deeply holy — closeness in how we take our first breaths and how ...

Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. This week’s Torah portion is Ha’azinu: Deuteronomy 32:1 – 52 Nobody likes to be criticized. In my fifth year of rabbinic school, I was required to write and deliver a ...

Our penultimate Torah portion is … a poem. Even allowing for the oral culture of the time, ending a book of narrative and law with song is a pleasant twist. Ha’azinu describes God’s power as creator ...

In this week’s video, we close the entire Torah, and we ask ourselves, what lessons can we learn today? How can we be inspired by the Torah’s messages, and fulfill our destiny as a people? This video ...