Lazer Gurkow, Author at Inner Stream

Re’e: The Pivot

In the course of life, there are always moments of pivot. A moment when we recognize that we have strayed […]

This Shabbat will be special because the full moon will shine on Friday night. The full moon occurs every month

Suffering is sadly familiar to Jews. We have a long and painful history of suffering. Our sages taught that the

We are in a time of year called the three weeks. During this time, Jerusalem was sacked twice, once by

As the Jacob and his family entered the gates of Egypt, Yocheved, the mother of Moses, was born between the

King Solomon famously wrote, “Stolen waters are sweeter.”[1] By this, he meant that the moment something is forbidden to us,

This week we read the Torah portion that delineates the laws of the Red Heifer. Jews who contacted a dead

Judaism has a message for every topic in life. Many are surprised by this. Religion is expected to have a