Breaking Barriers: Sarah’s Laughter and New Possibilities
This week’s Torah portion, Vayera, opens with a promise that seems impossible. Three visitors arrive at Abraham’s tent and declare that within a year, ninety-year-old Sarah will bear a son. Sarah, listening from the tent entrance, laughs. “After I am withered, shall I have pleasure, with my husband so old?” (Genesis 18:12) We often read […]
What is the Torah? We Each Have Our Own Answer.
Last night, we celebrated Simchat Torah, a time not only to conclude another year of reading the Torah but also to begin the journey anew. And on this journey we ask, what is the Torah? The story “When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street” tells of a Zaydeh (grandfather) who wasn’t the easiest to get along […]
