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In a wide-ranging interview with The Times of Israel, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg reflects on six decades of writing, teaching,...
10/13/2026

In a wide-ranging interview with The Times of Israel, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg reflects on six decades of writing, teaching, and refining his theological vision in conversation with a changing Jewish world.

His new two-volume collection, Life Against Death, brings together foundational essays alongside new reflections on how his thinking has evolved—and what our unfolding reality asks of us today.

Read the full interview at the link in the top comment.

Few mitzvot are as cherished as lighting the Hanukkah candles. Hadar's new companion explores the story behind the ritua...
10/12/2026

Few mitzvot are as cherished as lighting the Hanukkah candles. Hadar's new companion explores the story behind the ritual. What candles do we light? Where, and how?

Through the give-and-take of the Talmud and our halakhic tradition, these pages invite learners to ask deeper questions about what it means to remember, to hope, and to bring light into the world.

The companion is available for free (we simply ask for a donation to cover shipping costs), and if you place your order by Monday, October 19 - you’ll receive it in time for Hanukkah.

Learn more and place your order using the link the top comment.

10/08/2026

Last week, a friend told me about teaching her high school students political philosopher Thomas Hobbes’ theory that without government, we can’t live moral lives. Moral precepts like seeking peace and keeping one’s word, which Hobbes calls eternal and discoverable through reason, exist even i...

In the beginning, God lifted the world out of chaos. The Torah paints a dramatic scene. A wasteland. A darkness coveri...
10/08/2026

In the beginning, God lifted the world out of chaos. The Torah paints a dramatic scene. A wasteland. A darkness covering the surface of the “tehom”, the great depths.

A story in the Talmud imagines King David digging deep into the core of the earth, while preparing the foundations for the Beit HaMikdash (The Temple), attempting to reach the depths of the “tehom”. Instead, the Talmud tells us, he finds a clay teapot.

What happens next? Find out in R. Avi Strausberg’s Dvar Torah for Beresh*t, available through the link in the 1st comment.

Get R. Strausberg’s Dvar Torah in your inbox every week - subscribe through the link in the 2nd comment.

10/05/2026

What if one book could introduce you to nearly 1,000 years of Jewish conversation about Torah?

Sign up to a new course from Hadar's Project Zug, featuring Rabbi David Kasher, which will explore Mikraot Gedolot — from Rashi to the Ramban, Seforno to the Siftei Hahamim — their historical moment, their approach to parshanut, and a sampling of their actual commentary.

Sign up by October 26 to be matched with a havruta (study partner) and start the new Jewish year off with a commitment to regular Torah study - link in the top comment.

10/01/2026

Now Available: Life Against Death

In this 2-volume set of Life Against Death, Rabbi Irving Greenberg curates, introduces, and reflects on the most important essays written over the course of his lifetime in the United States and Israel, from 1965 to 2025. These influential works recognized as classic in his oeuvre identify turning points in Jewish life, along with policies key to successful Jewish living in the modern world.

Save 40% with discount code 6AF26 at checkout:
https://jps.org/books/life-against-death/

Shemini Atzeret’s essentially neutral, blank name echoes its lack of content; unlike Pesach and Sukkot, it does not comm...
10/01/2026

Shemini Atzeret’s essentially neutral, blank name echoes its lack of content; unlike Pesach and Sukkot, it does not commemorate the history of Bnei Israel in the desert; unlike Shavuot and Sukkot, it has no agricultural meaning or origin; it is not connected to communal spiritual processes like remembrance or atonement.

Precisely because it is stripped of positive content, it invites us to question what it means to experience joy – not joy about something, but pure, transcendent joy – as a state of being.

Unfortunately, over the past three years, the joy of this holiday has become something else entirely.

Read the full Op-Ed by Dr. Tsivia Frank Wygoda using the link in the top comment.

With the end of the year, we also complete another cycle of reading through the Five Books of the Torah. This offers a p...
09/30/2026

With the end of the year, we also complete another cycle of reading through the Five Books of the Torah. This offers a pause to look back on the philosophical, moral, and human journey we walked together. Looking back at the themes we explored, I’ve gathered them into five ideas to carry with us in our relationship with Torah, ourselves, God, and one another.

Read R. Avital Hochstein's Dvar Torah for this week's Parashah, through the link in the top comment.

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