Reflection & Thought Essays
Here you will find texts offering reflection and critique on cultural, social, spiritual, and halakhic issues. These essays, written in a reflective and intellectual style, seek to illuminate processes and phenomena from both a personal and a public perspective.
On Yom Kippur and the Shalosh Regalim, Yizkor is recited. This reflection urges all to remain in the shul, sharing loss in solidarity with those who pray.
As Moses steps down, he blesses Joshua with courage. Read in the Ten Days of Repentance, Vayelech stirs us to choose wisely—between life and death, blessing and curse.
Tracing nearness and distance—Torah not in heaven nor beyond the sea—reflecting on pain since Oct. 7 and on hope for renewal and healing.
Parashat Ki Tavo column in Times of Israel: hearts, eyes, and ears opened anew—between collective trauma and a search for light and hope as Deuteronomy and the Hebrew year draw to a close.
Biblical teachings on not ignoring suffering applied to social ostracism in schools, featuring poetry and the Kanfei Dror intervention method.
This article explores the gap between halakhic exemption of minors from mourning and their lived grief, proposing Jewish rituals for bereaved children—tragically urgent since October 7.
Dvar Torah on Parashat Re'eh 5785: Choosing between blessing and curse, Levinas' "difficult freedom," individual and collective responsibility.
Dvar Torah for Parashat Eikev 5785: On life alongside rupture, the connection between physical break and spiritual tear, and living with memory.
How do we find words when words are kidnapped? Rabbanit Sarah Segal-Katz on yearning for clarity amid fog, choosing to let light grow from within