“God hates us,” the people say. We think we can hate ourselves with impunity. But what if learning to receive God’s love is one of our major life tasks?

God doesn’t love us because we are good, but because God is good.

Lying down beside the suffering one, stroking her hair, singing her a lullaby.

When you slept, I lay down with you. When you were cold, I was cold with you. When you had a headache, I saw and I cared.

With gratitude to the Tzlofchad women and their Torah as it continues to ripen and reveal itself in this moment through all of us.

What piece of God’s Torah can you see that no one else — even the wisest experts among us — can see?