India is a vast and complicated country. Its 1.4 billion citizens, the world’s largest population, are spread out over 1.2 million square miles, with terrains ranging from the Himalayan Mountains, to the Indian Ocean coastline, the Thar Desert, the rainforests…
Thursday Lunch and Learn | Rabbi Leiby Burnham
Naso תשפ"ג We all know the story of Samson (Shimshon) and Delila, how she extracted from him that the secret of his strength lay in his hair. Indeed, when the Philistines cut his hair, his strength subsided and they subdued…
Thursday Lunch and Learn | Rabbi Leiby Burnham
When tech is hot, everyone wants jobs in tech. Besides the cool campuses, all glass and steel and open spaces, besides the free yerba mate cashew milk smoothies, organic lunches and craft beer on Friday afternoons, besides the uncapped vacation…
Parshat Naso These were exciting times for the Jewish people. Almost a year had passed, and it was again Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the month in which they left Egypt. So much had happened in such a short time. First, they walked…
Life isn’t easy, everyone is going to have to go through some tough stuff. What separates people, is when and how frequently. Some people are front loaders; they start off life with a lot of pain and suffering but climb…
Parshat Naso These were exciting times for the Jewish people. Almost a year has passed, and it was again Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the month in which they left Egypt. So much has happened in such a short time. First they…
This essay combines reality and futuristic predictions. Anything described as happening in 2019 or earlier is true, anything from 2020 and forward is a futuristic prediction. Obviously. The boarding team was dressed in the blue camouflage fatigues of the Seven…