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To Jerusalem

How Centralizing the Temple Changed Everything

A very, very tall white man and two white women half his height

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Large and In Charge

On Vending Machine Theology

On Vending Machine Theology

God is not a kiosk and your prayers are not a quarter

worlds that germinate

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worlds that germinate

Indigenous voices for today, and every day

thanks for doing this with me

catching up and checking in

the right and the good

the right and the good

on going above and beyond

Visualizing the mitzvot

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Visualizing the mitzvot

Show Me What Torah Looks Like

Painting of a white astronaut in space, with an aleph underneath him

Ten, Again

Tellin' 'Em What They've Been Told

What the Trees Know

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What the Trees Know

misc essays Featured

On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

the day after

notes on feeling our way into this next chapter

Judean Pillar Figurine

Idol Chatter

What We Talk About When We Talk About False Worship

What's a Little More Demon Torah Among Friends

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What's a Little More Demon Torah Among Friends

just don't offer them blood, ok

“The rabbi dug a trench over the grave of the tzaddik and then lay in it all night, praying and whispering holy names.”

GUEST POST: 🪽😈👹 Let’s Talk about Angels, and Shedim, and Giants

A Pep Talk From the Jewish Monster Hunter

A person stands in one frame, drenched in water, and the other, with fire consuming him

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Water and Fire

Painting of a man in a turban sitting in a chair, looking at a book held by a kneeling man. There are tall candles.

Seeking the History Behind The Mythtory

The Backstory On That Scroll They, Uh, Found That One Time

Two people sitting in a sukkah, one with guitar and kippah and beard, amongst gorgeous art depicting biblical figures

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Be Our Guest

Flowery illuminated manuscript of the opening page of Deuteronomy

Tools for the Long Haul

Wooden sculpture of a book with river stones spiraled inside

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The Book of (Your) Life

“Inscribe us in the Book of Life,” Kotvenu b’sefer he-ḥayyim, Jews pray between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This comes from a midrash in the Talmud (Rosh Hashana 32b) about our fates in the year to come, but it also brings to mind an equally important question of this

Expressionist-style painting of a person looking at horror at someone killed, house on fire

"...a being whose anguish may reach the heart of God."

October Seventh

A manuscript with a series of interlocking circles with calendar months, weeks, etc.

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Chronograms for the New Year

apple carved to look like a butterfly

Head of the Year

Purple image of an older man and a woman singing with their eyes closed, images super imposed on each other

easier to ask for forgiveness...?

Penitential Prayers and A Family Legacy, Revitalized

Biblically accurate angel with halo and wings and horns and tail

Guest Post: S. Bear Bergman is feeling... inclined

On the yetzers -- the good and evil inclinations in Judaism

the place of all possibility adina allen

the wild, fertile place of all possibility

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