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Immediate Gratification vs. Sacred Struggle
Have We Stopped Talking With The Divine Because AI Answers Us Faster? Part of the ‘On Second Thought’ series By: Ezra Nadav This week my Rabbi’s drash got me thinking more deeply. He reminded us that Judaism is not about easy answers but about the wrestling — with the Divine, with text, with ourselves. In…
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Born Into Journeys
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I Am Not What I Know
A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav I’ve spent most of my life gathering knowledge, storing it, curating it, offering it to others in the hope it will matter. In classrooms and consultations, workshops and webinars, I’ve been praised for clarity, for insight, for translating the complex into the digestible. It’s…
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Living the Story — A Life Repeated and Renewed: Part 6
Genesis as the Story of Every Human Life: Part 6, the Final Installment A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav Previously in the Series: In Part 1: Conception and Innocence, we stood in the Garden, in that wordless, early knowing of goodness and belonging. Life began not with striving, but with…
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Blessing and Legacy — Reckoning with the End: Part 5
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Dreams and Detours — The Price of Maturity: Part 4
Genesis as the Story of Every Human Life: Part 4 A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav Previously in the Series: In Part 1: Conception and Innocence, we explored the beginning of life, both in the world and in ourselves. Eden is a place of trust, safety, and unearned goodness. But it…
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Covenant and Identity – Becoming a Self: Part 3
Genesis as the Story of Every Human Life: Part 3 A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav Previously in the Series: In Part 1: Conception and Innocence, we began with Eden — a symbol of our earliest beginnings, when we live in unconscious trust, gifted goodness, and untested belonging. It is…
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Knowledge and Estrangement – The Loss of Innocence: Part 2
Genesis as the Story of Every Human Life: Part 2 A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav Previously in the Series:In Part 1, Conception and Innocence, we explored the Edenic beginnings of human life — a time of unearned goodness, unconscious trust, and belonging without condition. But innocence, however beautiful, is…
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Genesis as the Story of Every Human Life: Part 1
Part 1: In the Beginning: Conception and Innocence A part of the ‘On Second Thought‘ series By: Ezra Nadav Genesis Is Our Story Too: A New Series on Growth, Loss, and Becoming. What if Genesis wasn’t just a story about the world’s beginning, but about your beginning too? What if its pages didn’t just tell…
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What I’ve Learned by Attempting to Learn Biblical Hebrew
Why I Now Read Slower, Complain Less, and Love the Torah More From the ‘On Second Thought’ series: By Ezra Nadav Learning Hebrew with dyslexia and an auditory processing disorder has been anything but easy. But it has changed the way I relate to sacred text, to tradition and to myself. When I first set…
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