blogs/rabbi-huberman

Parashat Ki Tavo              

    God's Plan -- In its Time

About five years ago, students from my former elementary school class gathered on Zoom to catch up for the first time in more than 50 years.

Growing up in the 1960s, we were a class of 24—12 boys and 12 girls—who graduated...Read more...

Parashat Shoftim  (Judges)                

    Justice: God Mentioned it Twice

A piece of art that hangs in our dining room often becomes obscured by dishes, Shabbat candles, and our big bowl of kippot.

It’s not my favorite piece. Its colors are bland, but sometimes as we...Read more...

Parashat Eikev                  

    More than Bread

About 30 years ago, shortly before I left the communications profession, I sat on an advisory council for a college’s journalism program.

Twice a year, two dozen senior representatives from journalism, public relations and...Read more...

Parashat Matot-Masei                       

    Another BIrthday:  The Lives Within our Lives

About three weeks ago, I turned 72. No Mazal Tovs or cards are necessary, but the significance of this particular birthday occurred to me sometime during the day.

Seventy-two—four times...Read more...

Parashat Balak                           

    Jewish Respect for Privacy

The prayer that begins morning services each day is, perhaps, one of the oddest within all of Judaism.

It’s odd because it wasn’t even written by a Jew.

But its ramifications extend to our lives...Read more...