blogs/rabbi-huberman

Parashat Ki Tavo 

"I, God will speed up everything in its time." -- (Isaiah 60:20)    

God is Not Claus

In the early pages, he asks, “What is the most difficult commandment to keep?”

After considering many...Read more...

Parashat Shoftim

    Does God Pull the Strings?

During the early-1970s, for a brief period, my mother became a local folk hero.

She gained a reputation as a foreteller of the future.

Each year, our synagogue held a fund-raising “bazaar.” Aside from selling used clothing, furniture, kitchen items and chachkes to...Read more...

Parashat Va'etchanan

Shema Yisrael Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad. “Listen oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One.” Deuteronomy 6:4

I have a uniquely Jewish question to ask you:

When you offer a personal prayer to God, or when you’ve had an opportunity to place a note Jerusalem’s Western Wall, what...Read more...

On the last day of our recent trip to Israel, as we walked towards an Ethiopian restaurant, one of our participants shared perhaps one of the wisest assessments I’ve ever heard about Israel. 

“Whatever you thought about Israel before you got here—you would be wrong.”

Sharon’s comments came after...Read more...

On my 10th birthday in 1963, my mother presented me with a pocket-sized book that I kept close to my heart well into my teens.

Titled Every Boy’s Handbook, it offered all kinds of information at a time when I was...Read more...