blogs/rabbi-huberman

Parashat Matot-Massei

“After all, what have we got here? A little bit of this, a little bit of that. A pot, a pan, a broom, and a hat." Anatevka, Fiddler on the Roof

According to the store receipt, I paid my final visit about an hour before the end.

I left the synagogue at about 1:45 pm, Thursday, on the premise that our shul’s coffee nook needed a new...Read more...

Parashat Balak: “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwellings, O Israel.” (Numbers 24:5)

I have a question relating to privacy.

When you send an email or text - perhaps containing something sensitive or personal - do you expect your message to remain private?

It’s a question we consider whenever we put something to paper – or...Read more...

Parashat Shelach Lecha: "We looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them.” Numbers 13:33

During the days prior to my bar mitzvah, I received many gifts to commemorate the event.

Most of them have faded into time.

But perhaps the most enduring was a small book given to me by my mother titled “A Boy’s Handbook to Becoming to a...Read more...

Parashat Nasso: May God bless you and protect you." Numbers 6:24

It was about 2:15 pm on a Thursday in my Grade 10 English class, when a seemingly innocent event exposed me to my first incident of anti-Semitism.

Joel Nathanson sneezed.

Perhaps it was allergies – after all, without air conditioning, during early spring, teachers would often leave the windows of...Read more...

Parashat Behar

“We do not inherit the earth from our elders, we borrow it from our children.” First Nations Chief.

About nine months ago, the world lost one of its greatest composers and country music artists, Nanci Griffith.

You may have never heard of her - but her contribution to our understanding of the beauty of the earth will eternally remain with our...Read more...