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Theological Essays

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May 25, 2026
The Wound That Gives
May 25, 2026
May 25, 2026
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May 21, 2026
The Mockingbird and the Concealment of Innocence
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
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May 21, 2026
Ohr La-Goyim לְא֥וֹר גּוֹיִֽם: Theology, Statecraft, and the Question of Justification
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
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May 14, 2026
Makom, Tzimtzum, and the Collapse of the Horse-and-Rider Parable/Mashal
May 14, 2026
May 14, 2026
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May 12, 2026
The Covering of Blood from Sinai to the Crematoria
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
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May 12, 2026
Dream, Contamination, and the Sanctification of Ambiguity
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
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April 24, 2026
The Wound as Altar: An Anti-Theodicy of the Shoah
April 24, 2026
April 24, 2026
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April 14, 2026
The Inner Light and the Outstretched Hand
April 14, 2026
April 14, 2026
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March 17, 2026
The Spiral and the Sparks: from Eternity to the Bedside
March 17, 2026
March 17, 2026
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February 17, 2026
Shabbat “Beyond Time” and the Physics of Time
February 17, 2026
February 17, 2026
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February 1, 2026
Trees, Divine Presence, and Higher Power
February 1, 2026
February 1, 2026
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January 22, 2026
Blackstar: Symbol, Withdrawal, and The Refusal of Consolation
January 22, 2026
January 22, 2026
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January 22, 2026
Beyond the Garments: the Grammar of Divine Names, Human Projection, and the Post-Holocaust Condition
January 22, 2026
January 22, 2026
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January 19, 2026
Divine Names, Human Psyche, and the Emergence of Process Theology
January 19, 2026
January 19, 2026
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January 16, 2026
The Sacred Marriage and the Messianic Consummation
January 16, 2026
January 16, 2026
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January 8, 2026
The Wagons of Indictment
January 8, 2026
January 8, 2026
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January 4, 2026
Revelation and the Conquest of Demonic Forces
January 4, 2026
January 4, 2026
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December 30, 2025
Neither Object Nor Abyss
December 30, 2025
December 30, 2025
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December 22, 2025
Psalms: Prayer, Praise, and Tikkun
December 22, 2025
December 22, 2025
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December 16, 2025
Sacred Healing, Shattered Vessels
December 16, 2025
December 16, 2025
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December 14, 2025
Surrender as Ontological Revelation
December 14, 2025
December 14, 2025
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December 14, 2025
The Yechida as Higher Power
December 14, 2025
December 14, 2025
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December 10, 2025
Cosmic Sound, Sacred Number, and the Architecture of Musical Consciousness
December 10, 2025
December 10, 2025
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December 7, 2025
The Wellsprings of Embodied Wisdom
December 7, 2025
December 7, 2025
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November 17, 2025
From Grammar to Theography
November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025
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November 16, 2025
The Pain of the Shekhinah
November 16, 2025
November 16, 2025
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November 2, 2025
My Heart Tells Me
November 2, 2025
November 2, 2025
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October 31, 2025
Freedom as Awareness
October 31, 2025
October 31, 2025
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October 24, 2025
The Lonely Man of Faith at Sixty
October 24, 2025
October 24, 2025
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September 29, 2025
A Religious Response to Harari
September 29, 2025
September 29, 2025
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May 6, 2019
The Soul of Conception
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019
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May 6, 2019
The Two Types of Discursive Study of Torah
May 6, 2019
May 6, 2019
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April 1, 2019
The Four Humors and Avoda She’beGashmiut in the Apter Rov
April 1, 2019
April 1, 2019
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April 1, 2019
Mourning and the License to Interpret Torah
April 1, 2019
April 1, 2019
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March 13, 2019
Sanctity
March 13, 2019
March 13, 2019
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December 6, 2018
Becoming Israel: A Dialectical Path
December 6, 2018
December 6, 2018
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November 20, 2018
Fallen Angels: Remythologizing and Recovery
November 20, 2018
November 20, 2018
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November 1, 2018
Pulling the Wool Over the Eyes: Abimelech’s Paradoxical Gift
November 1, 2018
November 1, 2018
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September 2, 2018
The Poetry of Paradoxical Faith, Aaron Zeitlin
September 2, 2018
September 2, 2018
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September 2, 2018
The Two Torahs-Deut. 17:18-20
September 2, 2018
September 2, 2018
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August 28, 2018
Schechina Consciousness II
August 28, 2018
August 28, 2018
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April 30, 2018
Thoughts From Jerusalem
April 30, 2018
April 30, 2018
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February 6, 2018
"Manna From Heaven" and the Taste of God
February 6, 2018
February 6, 2018
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January 22, 2018
Textuality, Narrative and Mysticism
January 22, 2018
January 22, 2018
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December 1, 2017
Tiferes Shlomo on Rachel and Leah
December 1, 2017
December 1, 2017
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September 1, 2017
The Lion Who Destroys But Also Rebuilds
September 1, 2017
September 1, 2017
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August 28, 2017
The Divine Twin
August 28, 2017
August 28, 2017
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August 28, 2017
The Blind Fiddler
August 28, 2017
August 28, 2017
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May 28, 2017
Eulogy For My Friend and Mentor George Lasry
May 28, 2017
May 28, 2017
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February 6, 2017
Parables and Princesses
February 6, 2017
February 6, 2017
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December 1, 2016
Tikkun Olam Revisited
December 1, 2016
December 1, 2016
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July 28, 2016
Silent Prayer: Afterthoughts
July 28, 2016
July 28, 2016
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July 6, 2016
On The Death of Elie Wiesel
July 6, 2016
July 6, 2016
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April 12, 2016
Silent Prayer
April 12, 2016
April 12, 2016
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April 4, 2016
Memorial Dedication for Rabbi Gettinger
April 4, 2016
April 4, 2016
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March 2, 2016
The Exile of the Soul
March 2, 2016
March 2, 2016
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March 2, 2016
Mirror of The Divine
March 2, 2016
March 2, 2016
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February 29, 2016
Bribing Satan and Queen Esther
February 29, 2016
February 29, 2016
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July 26, 2015
Yael Zipporah
July 26, 2015
July 26, 2015
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May 31, 2015
Broken Hearts-Broken Tablets: A Visual Midrash
May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015
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April 14, 2015
Tzafun
April 14, 2015
April 14, 2015
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March 31, 2015
The Sign Has A Reality
March 31, 2015
March 31, 2015
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January 11, 2015
Norah Alila : Divine Complicity in Human Malfeasance
January 11, 2015
January 11, 2015
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January 2, 2015
Comments on Abraham
January 2, 2015
January 2, 2015
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July 31, 2014
The Schechina Consciousness and Reb Nachman’s Lost Princess
July 31, 2014
July 31, 2014
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July 31, 2014
Sibling Romance As Metaphor For Divine Fracture
July 31, 2014
July 31, 2014
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May 13, 2013
The Absent Seventh Beggar: More Thoughts
May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013
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May 7, 2013
Blasphemy As A Spiritual Tool
May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013
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April 11, 2013
The Month of Iyar: Rosh Codesh
April 11, 2013
April 11, 2013
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March 11, 2013
Confronting Evil Out There and Within: Lizensk 2013
March 11, 2013
March 11, 2013
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November 9, 2012
Der Schvindel Trep: The Swindling Spiral Staircase
November 9, 2012
November 9, 2012
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October 24, 2012
Adam vs. Jacob: A Study in Loneliness
October 24, 2012
October 24, 2012
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August 30, 2012
The Absent Seventh Beggar: Rabbi Nachman’s Final Parable
August 30, 2012
August 30, 2012
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June 17, 2012
Moshe's Humility
June 17, 2012
June 17, 2012
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June 15, 2012
Shlomie Toirah: The Legacy
June 15, 2012
June 15, 2012
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May 29, 2012
Rabbi Akiva Teaches Us How to Suffer
May 29, 2012
May 29, 2012
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April 27, 2012
The Space Upon Which the Torah Hinges
April 27, 2012
April 27, 2012
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April 2, 2012
Faith and Doubt: A Reading of Exodus 17
April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
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November 14, 2011
Quantum Hassidut- Hitbodedut
November 14, 2011
November 14, 2011
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August 2, 2011
Notes to Parshat Massei
August 2, 2011
August 2, 2011
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July 20, 2011
Two Types of Managing Divine Wrath: Moses vs. Pinchas
July 20, 2011
July 20, 2011
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July 20, 2011
Jonathan and Allenby: A Tale of Two Tricksters
July 20, 2011
July 20, 2011
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June 23, 2011
Phillips Machine and the Plumbing of Kabbalah
June 23, 2011
June 23, 2011
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April 12, 2011
ESTHER’S PLEA : Reading the Self in Her Struggle
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
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March 25, 2011
Priestly Robes and the Archetypes of Moses and Aaron
March 25, 2011
March 25, 2011
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March 25, 2011
The Plague of Darkness
March 25, 2011
March 25, 2011
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March 20, 2011
Mashal Hakadmoni as Primordial Metaphor
March 20, 2011
March 20, 2011
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March 6, 2011
Answering Answer to Job: Jung, Job and Buber
March 6, 2011
March 6, 2011
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June 6, 2010
Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh
June 6, 2010
June 6, 2010
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October 11, 2009
Schechina Consciousness
October 11, 2009
October 11, 2009
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September 27, 2009
Entanglement and the Unified Theory of Us: Judah and Joseph
September 27, 2009
September 27, 2009
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September 21, 2009
Searching Souls: Uman 2009
September 21, 2009
September 21, 2009
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August 16, 2009
Apikorsus and Epicurus: Rehabilitating Elisha
August 16, 2009
August 16, 2009
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August 9, 2009
The Sweetness of Torah
August 9, 2009
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August 2, 2009
Non Nobis Domine and Psalm 115
August 2, 2009
August 2, 2009
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July 29, 2009
Grief and Intimacy: Tisha B’Av 2009
July 29, 2009
July 29, 2009
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March 15, 2009
The Broken Vav
March 15, 2009
March 15, 2009
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August 24, 2008
Agape and Eros in Relating to the Divine
August 24, 2008
August 24, 2008
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August 17, 2008
From Text to Myth
August 17, 2008
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August 10, 2008
Munich
August 10, 2008
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August 3, 2008
Torah as Access Codes to the Divine
August 3, 2008
August 3, 2008
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July 27, 2008
The Fugue and Reading the Text and Myself
July 27, 2008
July 27, 2008
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July 20, 2008
Tikkun Olam
July 20, 2008
July 20, 2008
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July 13, 2008
The Tears of Moses
July 13, 2008
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July 6, 2008
The Divine Wound
July 6, 2008
July 6, 2008
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April 20, 2008
Lessons for the Foetus
April 20, 2008
April 20, 2008
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April 13, 2008
The Great Brotherly Argument
April 13, 2008
April 13, 2008
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April 6, 2008
Frogs and Self-Sacrifice
April 6, 2008
April 6, 2008
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March 28, 2008
The Music of Midnight
March 28, 2008
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December 2, 2007
Matriarchs and Martyrdom: From Sarah to Rabbi Akiva
December 2, 2007
December 2, 2007
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October 14, 2007
The Tears of Rashi
October 14, 2007
October 14, 2007
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October 7, 2007
Parable of the Banished Wife
October 7, 2007
October 7, 2007
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August 6, 2007
Dancing With the Pain at the Footstool of God
August 6, 2007
August 6, 2007
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July 27, 2007
Middot
July 27, 2007
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July 9, 2007
Re-visioning God: Acceptance After Sin
July 9, 2007
July 9, 2007
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June 17, 2007
The Alexanderer Rebbe’s Three Tales
June 17, 2007
June 17, 2007
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June 8, 2007
The Kabbalah of Pain
June 8, 2007
June 8, 2007
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October 15, 2006
Rabbi Akiva and Suffering
October 15, 2006
October 15, 2006
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October 8, 2006
Yom Kippur 2006
October 8, 2006
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June 1, 1987
The Agony of the Yarmulka
June 1, 1987
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