Here is an excerpt of a sermon I gave about my approach to Torah.     ….Professor Israel Knohl of the Hebrew University seizes on the parallel narratives describing the creation of the world and concludes that this is not unintentional.  The Bible purposefully begins with a mahklohet, differing opinions, and a dispute, for it …

It snowed again this past Shabbat.  It reminds me of some of the summers I spent at Jewish camp when it seemed to rain every Shabbat.   When trying to decide what to do about Shabbat services and other weekend activities, I recalled a number of years ago when the weather forecasters had given dire …