Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Genesis (Bere’shit)
Bere’shit: Standing Over Against
Noä: Learning to Be Present
Lekh Lekha: Eternal Thou
Va-yera’: Many Forms of Candor
H¿ayyei Sarah: Rising from Grief
Toledot: How Conflict Begins
Va-yetse’: When Time and Space Become Secondary
Va-yishlah¿: Holy Insecurity
Va-yeshev: On the Narrow Ridge
Mikkets: Trapped in a Dream
Va-yiggash: Learning to Put Feelings into Words
Va-yeh¿i: The Importance of Supportive Relationship
II. Exodus (Shemot)
Shemot: Get Off the Road
Va-’era’: Reification
Bo’: History as Strangers, Responsibility as Redeemers
Be-shallah¿: Daily Spiritual Practice
Yitro: All of Us, Together at Sinai
Mishpatim: Respecting Religious Difference
Terumah: Not Within, Between
Tetsavveh: The Sanctity of Decision Making
Ki Tissa’: Eclipse of God
Va-yak’hel: Shabbat as Cornerstone
Pekudei: There Is No Sin in Having Money
III. Leviticus (Va-yikra’)
Va-yikra’: Will and Grace
Tsav: The Afterglow
Shemini: Learning from Loss
Tazriä: Healing through Meeting
Metsorä: Faith and Science Together
’Ah¿arei Mot: The Curtain Will Part
Kedoshim: Hebrew Humanism
’Emor: Magic, Manipulation, and Prayer
Be-har: Intersection of Land and Justice
Be-h¿ukkotai: Mountains in Time
IV. Numbers (Be-midbar)
Be-midbar: Holiness in Time
Naso’: Words That Bless Children
Be-häalotekha: Eternal Thou
Shelä-Lekha: People Want Proof
Korah¿: When Politics Take a Horrible Turn
H¿ukkat: On Jewish Law
Balak: Quick and Decisive Punishment
Pinh¿as: Evolving Jewish Law
Mattot: “Imagine the Real”
Mase¿ei: Interfaith Relations
V. Deuteronomy (Devarim)
Devarim: Dealing with Anger
Va-’eth¿annan: Chosenness and Universalism
¿Ekev: Spirituality of Eating
Re’eh: Privilege and Responsibility
Shofetim: Ends and Means
Ki Tetse’: Animal Well-Being
Ki Tavo’: The Fugitives
Nitsavim: Equality in Labor
Va-yelekh: Wanting More Time
Ha’azinu: Children in Poetry
Ve-zo’t Ha-berakhah: When There Are No Words
VI. Holidays
Rosh Hashanah: Where Are You?
Yom Kippur: New Thinking
Sukkot: The Holiday
Shemini Atzeret: Sudden Stop
Sim¿at Torah: When You Come to the End
Hanukkah: Because We Never Really Get There
Purim: A Day Like Yom Kippur
Pesach: “Education of Character”
Yom ha-Shoah: Nuance in Reconciliation
Yom ha-Atzmaut: A Growing Outcome
Shavuot: Revelation, Then and Now
Epigraph Source Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography