God wants us to know that argument make us wiser and stronger. Restrictions on debate make us weaker.

Hearing the Silent Aleph -   Vayakhel   ©️Rabbi Mordecai Finley, 2025 This week’s Torah portion, Va-yakhel, is the first of ...

He is not leader of the church but is a prophet on the level of Moses, as implied by Franklin Graham's invocation at Trump’s ...

While hiddur mitzvah is interpreted as beautifying a commanded act with a sense of abundance, as usual, the Torah asks us to ...

We must remember that what hurts you will also eventually hurt me and that we, the collective we, will not survive. Community is where we find God. Our relationship with God is We-Thou, not I-Thou.

Just over five years ago, the world lost one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Kobe Bryant, when his helicopter ...

We journey in hope. This is what I learned during a Lenten retreat I attended with fellow priests this past week. As we journey, we look forward to God’s ...

The Goop founder also popularized the term "conscious uncoupling" in 2014 when she used it to describe her separation from ...

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed, recounted the role he played in the installation of Oba Ogunwusi, expressing dismay that ...

This week’s Torah portion is a story of forgiveness and the opportunity to make things right. The opening sentence tells it ...

He ordered his troops to draw their swords and prepare for a massacre. They were 400 strong, and the world was about to ...