Jewish vitality emerges from communal conversation on what really matters. The Torah’s laws and narratives are the soil of Jewish engagement, stretching us to interpret and find meaning.

This d’var examines how the breaking of the glass at wedding conveys the Jewish reality principle that life is incomplete up close and we are duty bound to make the world more whole. Likewise, Deuteronomy 15, which describes the need for relinquishing debts in the Sabbatical year and for freeing Hebrew slaves is linked to…