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 …

Moshe and the Butterfly Effect – Parshat Shemot 2024

It was in the Steven Spielberg movie Jurassic Park that I first learned about the Butterfly Effect, a phenomenon studied in an area of mathematics known as Chaos Theory. The Butterfly Effect concept is attributed to mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz in a 1972 paper about weather prediction. But using the metaphor of the butterfly …