Writing

Writing

Essays and divrei torah connecting Jewish text and thought to questions of animal ethics and plant-based life. Placeholder entries below — swap in your own pieces.

Ethics

Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim, Plainly

The rabbinic prohibition on animal suffering isn’t a footnote to Jewish law — it’s load-bearing.

Torah

Eden as Origin, Not Exception

Why the Torah’s first dietary vision may be less a curiosity and more a compass.

Holidays

A Vegan Seder Plate, Text by Text

Walking through each item on the ke’arah and what it opens up when reimagined without animal products.

Holidays

Sukkot and the Ethics of Enough

What a week spent in a temporary hut teaches about consumption, harvest, and restraint.

Community

Building a Jewish Vegan Community in Montreal

Notes from several years of potlucks, learning sessions, and figuring it out together.

Ethics

What “Dominion” Actually Asks of Us

Revisiting Genesis 1:28 against centuries of rabbinic commentary that read it far more narrowly than we assume.

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