Chaya Shuchat

When G-d does make demands of me, they tend to be in trivial areas—but areas that hit me where it counts.

My inner feminist bristles at the laws of vows described in the beginning of this week’s Parshah.

What does it mean to have a good life, a successful life? How do we handle life when it doesn’t bring us everything we hoped for?

How does the agent of destruction become the agent of healing?

What if you could see with your ears?

Since the Jewish people is like one body with one soul, when we overreact and attack someone else, we are actually hurting ourselves.

Compliments are rare. My critics are not shy and freely express their displeasure with my work. At the end of the day, I feel drained to my last drop of energy. So why do I bother teaching?

Preserving the dignity of the receiver is a cornerstone of mitzvah of charity: Maimonides lists eight levels of giving, correlating to the degree to which the giver is sensitive to the needs and feelings of the recipient

Their job was to bring up the rear and gather up any objects left behind--missing socks, perhaps, or lost children... It's not a very glorious role

“Ritually pure”—what, exactly, is that? What properties does a ritually pure sample of olive oil have that the others don’t?