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Adin Steinsaltz
Adin Steinsaltz
October 16, 2016, 11:01 am
Seven shepherds and eight princes of men
Connecting the ushpizin, the historic Jewish leaders who strangely visit sukkahs worldwide each night, to the holiday itself
By Adin Steinsaltz
September 27, 2016, 3:45 pm
Rosh HaShanah: The head of the year
Why use a body part to denote a fresh start? A study in how people improve themselves
By Adin Steinsaltz
August 12, 2016, 3:19 pm
Remembering Jerusalem
The holy city's destruction was the ruin of all existence, casting a curtain of sadness over reality ever since
By Adin Steinsaltz
June 10, 2016, 3:50 pm
The process of receiving the Torah
Shavuot recalls the Jews' 'out of space, out of time' Sinai encounter, and charges them to bring that holiness to life
By Adin Steinsaltz
April 10, 2016, 3:20 pm
In every generation
The Haggadah's text, though fixed, beckons to each seder's participants to perfect it with new interpretations
By Adin Steinsaltz
March 17, 2016, 3:18 pm
Purim, the festival of laughter
Reason can't defeat the absurdity of anti-Semitism: what's left is either despair or finding the humor in it all
By Adin Steinsaltz
September 3, 2015, 2:40 pm
Prepare for the New Year
The custom of public contemplation before the High Holidays gives Jews a chance to ask each other: Where are we going?
By Adin Steinsaltz
May 18, 2015, 9:57 pm
Curious Jews
The uniquely human drive to study for its own sake is the trait that raises humans above the angels
By Adin Steinsaltz
March 23, 2015, 12:55 pm
Freedom means more than being unchained
Those who are set free but have no real aspirations are destined to become slaves to other masters
By Adin Steinsaltz
February 3, 2015, 11:54 am
Tu Bishvat: Connecting with the living world
Trees provide sustenance and inspiration -- and cutting one down may have once launched a Jewish-Roman war
By Adin Steinsaltz
December 15, 2014, 11:29 am
Hanukkah — lighting a new kind of candle
The Hasmonean wars marked the first time in history that people were willing to die for their beliefs
By Adin Steinsaltz
July 3, 2014, 7:32 pm
A healing pain
God will find the right way to make our enemies pay for what they did -- our task is to 'do' Kaddish
By Adin Steinsaltz
June 16, 2014, 10:32 am
Add more holiness
The founder of the yeshiva where two of the kidnapped teens studied calls on Jews to pray for their safe return
By Adin Steinsaltz
December 28, 2013, 5:56 pm
Who will be our rabbis?
Where are the rabbis in Israel who care about the prostitutes at Tel Baruch beach?
By Adin Steinsaltz
September 15, 2013, 8:50 am
The season of our rejoicing
The Sukkot holiday experience of return to the primordial condition of deficiency and exile is a recipe for joy
By Adin Steinsaltz
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