Rabbi Rachel Bearman

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...

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...

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....

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...

“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...

In Genesis 12:1, God calls to Abram, telling him to leave his homeland and to go to a land that God will show him. Abram and Sarai follow...