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tikkun halev
On Monday I went to Mayyim Hayyim to use the mikveh, as I do every year before the holidays to prepare for the new year as well as to commemorate my conversion four years (!) ago. I probably sound like...
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midnight mass
Early yesterday morning I went to midnight mass at the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus. On Monday, I noticed it right across the street from where I’m staying while I’m in New York this week (for...
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guide my steps
I’m a mikveh guide! Or as my friend Sarah likes to say: I’m a mivkeh lady! This is not new information; in fact, I completed my training at Mayyim Hayyim at the beginning of May. But since I’ve hardly...
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short in stature, outsize in personality
i started trying to walk in my grandmother’s steps at an early age; photo by gay lee pearce My grandmother died this summer. She was 96 and had lived on her own until age 92, when she suffered a stroke...
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don’t go near a woman
This post originally appeared on Mayyim Hayyim’s blog, The Mikveh Lady Has Left the Building. mayyim hayyim nametag; photo by salem pearce via instagram This semester, as part of my rabbinic education,...
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disagreement for the sake of heaven
I gave this d’var Torah at Nehar Shalom Community Synagogue on February 12, 2016. I share it today, the 9th of Adar on the Hebrew calendar, for reasons that are explained below. A mishnah in Pirkei...
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wendy’s serves the bread of affliction
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers rally in New York City on March 3, 2016. My fellow Hebrew College rabbinical student Mimi Micner and I wrote this OpEd for the Huffington Post about Passover and...
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palace in time
On Friday evening, I left the delegation on for Shabbat: The group was traveling and spending money the next day, neither of which fits into my practice. Plus, to be honest, I felt like I needed...
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the wall(s) of Jerusalem
Last Sunday, I woke up at 3:30 a.m. and got dressed in preparation to walk to the Old City to participate in that morning’s shacharit service. By all accounts I probably shouldn’t have been sleeping at...
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holy body
Today I gave this d’var Torah in my class on Deuteronomy, on parshat Ve’etchanan. 10/20/17: There’s an update below, in response to a question from a friend. In the wake of the recent horrific...
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