Korbanot Pregnant with Meaning – Parshat Tazria 2024

Pregnancy is objectively difficult. The experience varies from woman to woman and from pregnancy to pregnancy, but there are common challenges that apply almost universally even if everything is going as expected. During the first trimester, a pregnant woman may have extreme nausea, cravings, and just a very weird relationship with food. I remember that …

Thanksgiving Expiration Dates – Parshat Tzav 2024

Aristotle was a brilliant philosopher whose ideas about ethics and living the good life are still relevant and taken seriously today. However, his record as a scientist has not held up quite as well. In his book The History of Animals, Aristotle explicitly endorses the idea of “spontaneous generation,” that some living things are born …