Today is my 40th birthday. It is also a week bookmarked by Memorial Day and Shavuot. All of it coming on the heels of my mother-in-law’s miraculous recovery from COVID-19 (my previous blog “A Walking ...

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The liturgy for the holiday of Shavuot showcases three powerful biblical texts: the story of the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:1-20:23), a spectacular vision of God by a ...

The literature of Jewish prophecy and revelation has ample analogues to psychedelic experiences, writes a rabbi and author. The first question many Jewish users of psychedelics ask is whether there ...

Must the precepts of Torah have productive purposes? Must they, in other words, “have a point”? Most modern thinkers have thought so. God’s Revelation, they assumed, must surely be as rational as the ...