There is a command in Torah that appears again and again: זכור — remember. We remember Shabbat.
We remember Sinai.
We remember Amalek. And in our generation, we remember the Holocaust. But remembrance in Judaism is never passive. It is not history for the sake of memory—it is memory that demands transformation. But a question arises as we remember tragedy: Where was God?
 Why did He allow this? Even in the Tanach, we hear cries of “למה”—why? From Book of Lamentations to the Psalms of King...

For those of you that have celebrated Passover before, you know that there more to do than just prepare a special dinner. The week leading up to Passover is tedious and involves meticulous cleaning and scrubbing and searching to make sure that all chametz is removed from the home. To say the least, there is a lot of preparation that goes into readying our homes for Passover. What’s more important than cleaning and preparing out homes though? Cleaning and preparing our hearts. We...

Tonight begins Rosh Chodesh Elul of the Hebrew year 5785. This month calls us to enter in with a sacred invitation to reflect, renew, and...