Rain

The sun had perpetually baked the vulnerable earth under it with its brilliant glare, and the earth had cracked up like shards of glass for want of water. Sandals, black oxfords and people from all walks of life came together in prayer. They wet their ...

As in a marriage, when the wedding-party is over, the couple's true intimate life begins. Shemini Atzeret is described as the "time of intimacy with the Divine." At this time, we ask for rain - the symbol of intimacy between heaven and earth.

Where is the world’s most ordinary place? A fifteen days’ journey from Jerusalem, in a field on the banks of the Euphrates.

The calendar is more than a measure of time; it is a cycle that charts our inner life and our relationship with our Creator.

On the difference between Egypt and the Holy Land, and the inner significance of the Plague of Hail

Our source of sustenance is neither regular nor predictable. It does not well up from a channel grooved in the earth, nor is it treaded up from a hole in the ground. Our eyes are forever trained upward, in hope and expectation, and in faith...

Another humid day: Humidity is fine if you're a young raindrop into water-weight training, pumping moisture. But once you're too muscular, you'll be on your own without a parachute. Then, at best, you might join a scenic river sailing out to sea, to see ...

Moses asked for spiritual "rain." G-d responded by offering "dew"

"All new born boys in the river," Pharaoh commanded. What is the deeper meaning behind this cruel decree?

“When you depend on the weather,” the old farmer would say, “everyone prays.”