The holiday of Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah at Sinai. The event has far reaching implications as well as symbolic and textual meaning throughout Jewish sources. Moses Maimonides (1137-1204), also known as the Rambam, a seminal thinker in the Jewish philosophic tradition as well as a physician, has a particular understanding of the …
Passover, with its special foods, symbols, and rituals, is behind us. Many of us have also been initiated into new modes of distancing, self-isolation, and connecting remotely. Over time, the echoes may fade from our shared journey out of slavery and oppression to freedome. An yet, Jewish tradition encourages us to re-amplify those echoes and …