Your favorite banjo playing Georgia boy brings you a few kind words about the Jewish new year. L’Shana Tovah! Share this:
Parshah Nitzavim-Vayelech
September 2, 2010 By 2 Comments
Children are a real pain. But G-d loves us, so it all sorta works out in the end.
Eat, Pray, Fight…With Your Wife (Parshat Ki Tavo)
August 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What Do Apples, Prayer and Fighting With Your Girlfriend Have In Common? (Ki Tavo) I’m psyched about Rosh Hashanah. I’m supposed to say that for spiritual reasons. But really, I like apples and honey. This week’s Torah portion is about fruit. The first fruit, in fact. We’re supposed to give that up as a sacrifice [...]
Parshah Ki Teitzei
August 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
More commandments in this Torah portion than any other. So this will be like a dvar on a dvar. How do we make these commandments work in daily life? Two ways: taking the past and make yourself an extension of it. Saying to yourself, “this is the way it was back then, and so this [...]
Parshat Shoftim: Quit Being a Power Nazi
August 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This week’s Torah portion talks justice, but justice can’t be administered by one person…
Parshah Re’eh
August 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 Monotheism in a nutshell, all laid out. Make the change you want to see! Share this:
Parshat Ekev: Is G-d A Genocidal Maniac?
July 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Christopher Hitchens made me wonder if G-d is a genocidal maniac. But a steady stream of “nerd movies” proved that wrong…
Parshat Va’etchanan
July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Religion, for many Jews, is a meritocracy. Where you went to college/yeshiva, what branch of Judaism ordained you, what rabbis you studied under, what level of kashrut, negiah, shabbat you keep. This is a litmus test for how-Jewishly-you-can-be-trusted. The more hardcore you are, the better, even if people think that your understanding of Judaism is [...]
Tisha B’Av: We Messed Up!
July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
PunkTorah will be holding an interactive online Lamentation. Together we will mourn and lament. Right here! At 9:15 PM Central. Participate in the “build-a-lamentation” where we will work together to create a work to be featured on PunkTorah.org! Tonight starts the fast of Tisha B’Av, the ninth of Av. What does that mean? There are [...]
Parshah Devarim
July 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22 It’s hard enough imagining a time without the internet, let alone books. But that’s what it’s like to be an ancient Hebrew. Moses keeps repeating these same stories about the People over and over again, not because he’s lecturing or thinks that the Hebrews are too stupid to remember, but because there isn’t [...]
