In Deuteronomy 30, Moses stands before Israel on the 7th of Adar, the last day of his life. For forty years he has been their

There is a Hebrew word that, to me, carries something essential about the biblical understanding of knowing God. טַעַם — taʿam Its root is

This week, I was awakened by the sound of a shofar—sharp, broken, almost crying. I looked at the calendar, following my guess. Exactly. The

Imagine the scene with me. Forty years have passed. Moses is standing on the plains of Moab. Before him is a new generation. They did

Since the days of the Exodus, Jewish spirituality was centred on the Temple and its sacrifices. Yet after the Babylonian exile, something remarkable began to