As we celebrate our liberation from oppression, we confront our inner Pharaoh, and the uncomfortable dissonance that comes with it.

[Cover image: Pharaoh Notes the Importance of the Jewish People, 1902, by James Tissot]

An account of Margaret’s less-than-stellar week, with thanks to Maimonides

How it feels to live in sweet, sweet community

Imagining emunah: be it trust, faith, or hopeless optimism for our future

“A blurred vision of a better world” - opening some boxes left behind by our predecessors

Thoughts on the Sin Buffet and the reflection of us it shows

In which we want to get better at getting together

Getting comfortable with the question “What can I do when there is nothing I can do?”

“We may well each have a particular function without which the whole chant, or the whole campaign, or the whole community won’t rise to its full power and possibility.” More on this and Rabbi Shefa Gold’s “Eight Functions of Consciousness” within.

An essay on the ways our government uses “antisemitism” as a scapegoat

The ethics of silence, as taught by Rabbi David Jacobson

Nurturing our yetzer ha-ra impulses in the month of Adar

Does a building make us more real? Acknowledging the “something” that makes our shul so special.

Color and texture can always be found: staying grounded in hard times

What we don’t know could fill a thousand books. Today, let’s write about something different.

Three questions to reflect on in the new year

The beautifully fragile sukkah

When our problems lack solutions, are we truly lost? Exploring the strange and sorrowful "land of unfixability"

Will we fight against the rising tide, or plan for where it’s taking us?