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Nitzavim: Ordered in Your Limbs
Parshat Nitzavim contains arguably some of the most famous Torah about Torah. Toward the end of the short parsha, Moshe tells the Jewish people about…
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Ki Tavo: Imagining Abundance
Ki Tavo is a parsha notorious for its curses. The litany of awful things that will take place if the Israelites do not follow God’s commandments is…
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Ki Teitzei: Looking
Thank you for your patience as I took time to study for my exam! The story of the motzi shem ra, the bearer of bad tales, is among several elements of…
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introducing: the feminist teshuva circle
for elul!!
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Re'eh: Attention
Among the many mitzvot we (re-)encounter in Parshat Re’eh is that of shmita. Others have written at length about how the framing of the sabbatical year…
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Learn feminist Torah with me!! A Masechet Kiddushin Class
Hello, Torah lovers!! I am so excited to share the first of my freelance Torah offerings for the year: a ten-week online class about feminist Torah…
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Rabbi Avigayil Halpern
Eikev: Speed
Though Sefer Devarim is some of my friends’ favorite book in the Torah, I often find it frustratingly repetitive. If we behave well and obey God, God…
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