Our guest this week is Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton of the Or Haneshama congregation in Ottowa, Canada. Rabbi Bolton was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1996. After serving as ...

In this week’s Torah portion, it is written: I broke the pegs of your yoke and led you upright. (Leviticus 26:13). On this verse, Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch (one of the early leaders of Chasidism) ...

In an effort to show up to synagogue more knowledgeable about the weekly Torah portion – and be prepared to offer a few words of Torah on short notice if asked by my lunch hosts – I picked up Yiscah ...

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