Balak #ParshaTweet: Sorcerers, talking donkeys, and mid-air transmogrified curses teach one thing: magic is real and must be used for good.

MUSTREAD if you are brave enough to build a pluralistic Jewish Future

MUSTREAD if you are brave enough to build a  pluralistic Jewish Future: Rabbi Marc Baker's  graduation speech @GannAcademy http://t.co/T8WHb8fJwo

The impulse toward mehadrisnism is rooted in the hard-to-dispell internal senses of personal inadequacy and religious inauthenticity which combine to provoke self-flagellation and a ritually expressed Jewish obsessive compulsion.