Ever experienced things hitting rock bottom, and then when you think they can't get any worse, a breakthrough happens and the situation...

Much can be said about Pharaoh's heart hardening and being heartened and the implications for free will... but today, I'm interested in...

Nearer to 90 seconds this week - but here's Miriam's thoughts on this week's parasha Vaera. Until the final plague, most of the 10...

It's a new year of 90 second sermons and a new sefer - the book of Shemot. Fab to be back with the wonderful Rabbi Joe to share a thought...

This week Miriam’s teacher, Reb Tanya Farber, shared the Hasidic idea of the Chanukah dreidel with its stem above and the Purim gregor...

I love when the Jewish library offers a scavenger hunt. A trail of connecting texts across Torah, Tanach and Rabbinic writing which comes...

Saw you at Sinai? Regular readers of this parasha blog will know that I don’t often take up an explicitly feminist theme. Sure, I’m...

When Harris and I watch Netflix, it’s generally in ten minute chunks, snatched here and there amidst busy lives. On the odd occasion...

Hagar Part II - or the Akeidah of Ishmael Last week we looked at Hagar’s first exile in the desert, and this week she’s there again -...

It’s Shabbat shuva - the shabbat of repentance - and our days before Yom Kippur are slipping away. Very resonant therefore, is our...

The scene is a famous one. Yaakov, on his deathbed, asks to bless Efraim and Menashe, the two grandsons he only came to know at the end...

What is one moment which captures a picture of your resilience in the past two years? Have this question in mind as we learn together....

Boiled eggs, free will and the Hogwarts Sorting Hat Like the hard boiled, burnt egg on our seder plate, with each successive plague...

Tzav, which falls this year on Shabbat haGadol, continues the foray into the world of sanctuary rites and rules that characterise...

Tetzaveh - you’ve got your hands full This is the fashionista’s sedra - full of opulent, exquisite details about clothes. The fabrics,...

Nine and a half years ago, when Kehillat Nashira was a new dream, Gaby and I, the minyan’s founding chairpeople, spent much time thinking...

Feeling alone, unprotected, vulnerable, in uncharted territory? Or is that just Yaakov in this week's parasha? Like him, we're more cared...

What are the things you live for? What motivates you above all else? What would distract your focus from a mission you are supposed to be...

Shabbat shalom This sedra presents a veritable embarrassment of riches and it was seriously hard to decide what to speak about, but I...

Shabbat shalom This sedra presents a veritable embarrassment of riches and it was seriously hard to decide what to speak about, but I...