The story of Jacob and Esau is really a story about appetite, purpose, and the lifelong tension between living for the moment and living for meaning. Their struggle begins before they are born. Rebecca, feeling the chaos in her womb,…
Month: November 2025
Chayei Sarah – Snapshots of a Life Well-Lived
The Torah portion Chayei Sarah—“the life of Sarah”—begins with Sarah’s death. The contrast is deliberate. The Torah’s concern is not merely with the end of her days but with the meaning of her days. It records Abraham’s memorialization of Sarah’s…
Vayera – A Rock Feels No Joy
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel once sang, I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries. In those few lines, they captured something hauntingly prophetic — the isolation of…