Creation

November 3, 2016

Why I’m Heading Home (published in the Times of Israel)

My wife, Karin, and I just decided to make aliyah – to immigrate to our ancestral homeland. Here’s a blog post about how at least I […]
August 25, 2014

Preparing Our Seeds for a New Year (published in the Huffington Post)

This week’s Torah portion, Shoftim, contains a verse that many of our sages have understood as making a profound comparison between people and trees. As our […]
April 9, 2014

Pesach: Song of Creation (published in the Times of Israel)

Some brief thoughts on why we read the Song of Songs, aka the Song of Solomon, on Pesach, drawing on three of Judaism’s most colorful thinkers: […]
April 6, 2014

Nisan: The Re-Beginning of Time (published in the Huffington Post)

Spring is here! And with it, comes the possibility of new beginnings in every area of our life…appropriately, this is my first post for Huff Po, […]