Rabbi Rachel Bearman

This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Noach, and it includes two very famous stories (and a lot of genealogies). The first of the...

According to tradition, Rosh Chodesh Elul (the first day of the month before the High Holy Days) was the day that Moses went back up...

This week’s Torah portion, Naso, is the second portion in the book of Numbers. In the middle of the parashah, nestled between seemingly...

The sound woke me from a deep sleep. It must have triggered the instinct that caring for my own son had planted deeply in my brain...

In this week’s double Torah portion - Acharei Mot, Kedoshim- we read a very famous verse, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and say...

THE ISRAELITES: The whispers have been flying for days. They buzz and bite like the flies that tormented the Egyptians. Moses has been...

I’ve been waiting to die for weeks. Each day, as we travel through the desert, I put one foot in front of the other, toes slipping in...

In the beginning, for unknowable amounts of time, Divinity existed in a world that was unformed and mysterious. They were not lonely....

Earlier this week, I read a piece in the New York Times called, “How We Survive the Winter.” The article was published the day before the...

The prayer of the unnamed, unloved, and unwritten. We are the wives of Jacob. We are the unnamed, the unloved, and the unwritten. We are...

I was the snake. The fruit was not temptation; it was opportunity. The sin would have been to stay in ignorance, to remain in the garden...

For months and months, I’ve been excitedly considering what I should talk about in my first High Holy Day sermon at my new congregation....

The Haftarah portion for Rosh Hashanah comes from the first two chapters of 1 Samuel, and it tells the story of two, very unhappy women....

**** Spoilers for the 2020 Mulan (and also I guess for the 1998 Mulan… which you should have seen by now.)*** Whelp… I watched the remake...

“They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, ‘You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and the...

This weekend, I set up the sewing machine that I bought after it was announced that we should all be wearing masks when we’re in public....

Ezrat Nafsheinu- Soul sustainer, I'm tempted to go get my tallis, sit with my legs tucked up underneath me, and wrap myself in fabric and...