Carrying yesterday’s forms unchanged into altered reality can itself become a kind of falsehood.

Historically, Shavuot is the celebration of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai, beginning seven weeks after the first day of Passover. Agriculturally, it commemorates the time ...

Shavuot, by all reason, should be the pinnacle of Jewish holidays. After all, this was the cataclysmic “day the Earth stood ...