Tiny Actions - Profound Impact

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Women’s Vows, and the Fate of Nations
Will These 14 Verses Shape the Future?
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Miriam Herman
Pinchas, Miriam, and the Inheritance of Torah
What Inheritance Are You Called To Carry?
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Miriam Herman
The Angels We Don’t See (But Definitely Create)
How our actions create the world
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Miriam Herman
The Song of the Outsider: Truth from Many Sources
How an Ancient Canaanite Poem Became a Jewish Teaching on War, Ethics, and the Power of the Outsider
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Miriam Herman

June 2025

Korach’s Uprising: Are We Missing the Real Fight?
This week’s Parsha reveals why pausing to question matters
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Miriam Herman
“We Looked Like Grasshoppers”: A Close Reading of Parashat Shelach
When the story is too good to choose just one moment—this week, I followed the parsha’s arc from the spies to the fringes.
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Miriam Herman
October 7, the Draft, and Beha'alotcha
Who Really Belongs in Israel’s Army
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Miriam Herman
Jealousy, Heartbreak, and a Terrifying Law
A woman drinks ink and dust to prove her innocence.
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Miriam Herman

May 2025

Claimed by God: On Firstborns, Levites, and Layered Belonging
Jewish life often seems to pull us in two directions at once…
Closing Vayikra: Chazak, Chazak, v’Nitchazek
Finishing Vayikra in a Time of Fear, with a Call to Courage
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Miriam Herman
When the Broken Bring the Bread
Preparing for the world where no one is left behind
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Miriam Herman
The Verses We Frame, and the Ones We Flinch From
Love Your Fellow / Stone Him? The Torah’s Hardest Conversation
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Miriam Herman
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