
Table for Five: Behaalotecha
Sacred Celebration


How should we approach prayer for an end-stage dying patient, for whom medical professionals predict no chance of recovery?

Tomer Persico’s “In God’s Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea” is a tour de force — with a twist. Tracing the history of the concept, he suggests the Deity perhaps planted the seeds for His own modern demise.

AI is accelerating our decline into a monoculture, where everything sounds the same, a culture that is dull and unoriginal.

I wish I knew about this in the 90s when I had the confidence to strut around in a mullet.

As you search, God will likely find you.



Why didn’t the Torah provide any rituals for Shavuot? And why was it so important for Jews to create their own customs?

It’s been seven weeks since Egypt and we’re ready for the next Big Thing…




