This week’s Torah portion, Korach, highlights two negative traits that exist within a person: envy and disputing others. These traits do not control us; rather, we control them, or at least we are ...

To raise or to lower? That is a crucial question for a person to consider regarding how one’s spiritual life impacts other people and the world itself. Do I wield my Judaism, my Torah, my very being ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Rachael Bregman, leader of Temple Beth Tefilloh in Brunswick, Georgia. Rabbi Bregman earned her ordination at Hebrew Union College in New York and a Master’s in Human ...

In one of those biting and perhaps ironic alignments of Torah and public Jewish life, we read Parashat Korach as three contemporary rebellions came to a climax this week in contested Jewish leadership ...

As the summer begins and young people set off into the broader world, often without close supervision for the first time, it’s a moment that invites reflection. What wisdom is worth passing on? What ...

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Parashat Korach records three rebellions against Moshe and Aaron: One rebellion was led by Korach, of the Tribe of Levi, who demagogically challenged Moshe’s leadership. Proclaiming himself the ...

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This week’s Parshah, Parshat Korach, contains the foundations of our belief in the Torah and the 613 commandments. Korach, in an all too familiar narrative, was a relative of Moshe who felt slighted ...