This week, from Israel, and the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City to be precise, as we begin to consider our ancestors’ earthly portal to the heavens, in our cycle of scriptures starting to read the ritual manual of the ancient Temple, the book of Leviticus – in Hebrew, Vayikra – “Then the Eternal One called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting” (Leviticus 1:1) – which Rashi, (Rabbi Shelomo Yitzchaki, 1040-1105, the essential commentator, who digests the ancient legacy of Midrash into concise notes upon the verses) calls “parlance of endearment,”...
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The story of Passover is one of the world’s oldest and most influential accounts of liberation, the transit of a nation “from ignominy to celebration,” in the words of the Mishnah, “from servitude to freedom, from mourning to holiday, and from gloom to great light,” in the words of the Seder’s Haggadah....
The voices of the high school students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who visited Harvard’s Kennedy School this past week to speak in the Institute of Politics about their leadership toward reform in firearm legislation, truly are some of the most impressive voices I have heard at...
“Thus all the work that King Solomon did building the House of the Eternal One was completed...” (I Kings 7:51)