by Rabbi Misha

The South Indian spiritual sensation Sadhguru drove his motorcycle across the border from Jordan this week and made his way to Tel Aviv.

by Rabbi Misha

Non-Attachment is generally considered a Buddhist notion. Jews tend to attach themselves to creatures and objects, then cling to them, and if possible, eat them.

by Rabbi Misha

I’ve been exhausted all week. No amount of sleep seems to be enough. Nor caffeine. Until Monday morning I was full of energy, the house felt alive and filled with hope. As the news of the leaked draft began to sink in, so did my energy sap. The atmosphere seemed to cloud.

by Rabbi Misha

In Talmudic fashion, artist Ghiora Aharoni views shattering as the beginning of creation. The Brachot tractate tells us what it means when something breaks in a dream.

by Rabbi Misha

A few days ago, I took the boys on a pilgrimage to Leonard Cohen’s gravesite in Montreal.

by Rabbi Misha

by Rabbi Misha

Something beautiful took place this week in Albany. Seniors and disabled people joined their home care workers to occupy the capital demanding a living wage for home care workers.

by Rabbi Misha

In order to praise our existence with a full throat one has to be a prophet, a poet or suffer from some other form of insanity.

by Rabbi Misha

I have never considered writing a letter to the Pope until yesterday.

by Rabbi Misha

Voldymyr Zelensky, in the spirit of the Bíblical prophet, Amos, seems to declare, “I am no prophet nor the son of a prophet. I am a comic actor who was visited by a dream which has overtaken my life. The lion has roared; who can but tremble? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?”

by Rabbi Misha

We carry the incredible gifts of this city everywhere.

by Rabbi Misha

One week ago, there were one million less refugees in the world. One week of war creates homelessness on that vast a scale.

by Rabbi Misha

This war has made me question whether our children are growing up with the proper disdain for and hatred of war.

by Rabbi Misha

More than anyone else I know, the person most brilliantly engaged with the story of the Golden Calf, which appears in this week's parashah is my friend and teacher, artist Ghiora Aharoni.

by Rabbi Misha

All the third-grade students would line up and prepare for our favorite monthly ritual, the Pointless Adventure.

by Rabbi Misha

During the ceremony I asked the young woman what she is carrying with her from her previous spiritual traditions into this stage in her life. Her answer surprised me with its simplicity. “Kindness,” she said…

by Rabbi Misha

On abortion in a Jewish lens.

by Rabbi Misha

Witnessing a birth is like seeing God.

by Rabbi Misha

During this time of year, the drive up to Jerusalem is majestically white, not from the snow but from the blooming almond trees everywhere, the Shkediya.

by Rabbi Misha

Kabbalistic wisdom on God, good and evil for the week of January 6th.