Below you can find divrei Torah (Torah commentaries) from a Reconstructionist approach.
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| Kaplan on Creation: An Explanation of Jewish Mission | Mel Scult |
| Shabbat and Holiness | Steven Nathan |
| Symbolism of Rainbows | Howard Cohen |
| Avraham, Happiness, and God's Open Hand | Ellen Dannin |
| Be a Blessing | Steven Nathan |
| Go to Yourself: Abraham and the Spiritual Journey | Jonathan Kligler |
| The Destruction of the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah | Steven Nathan |
| The Akeida: Questions of Sacrifice | Sydney Nestel |
| Welcoming Strangers, Welcoming Angels | Hannah Spiro |
| Filling in the Missing Pieces of Sarah's Life | Elizabeth Bolton |
| Abraham's Second Life | Lewis Eron |
| Quality or Quantity? | Micah Becker-Klein |
| Questioning Jacob's and Rebecca's Behavior | Shai Gluskin |
| Isaac, Digger of Wells | Ellen Dannin |
| A Seasonal Hint: Jacob Didn't Ask for That Much Stuff! | Arlene Berger |
| Meeting Angels | Lewis Eron |
| Wrestling With... | Steven Nathan |
| My Brother's Keeper | Lewis Eron |
| Connecting the Dots | Ellen Dannin |
| Tamar and Judah | Ellen Dannin |
| Tamar the Hidden | Ellen Dannin |
| The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Love Trumps Power | Jeremy Schwartz |
| Joseph, The Favorite Son | Elizabeth Bolton |
| If I Had Only Known - Parashat Vayigash | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Prophets and Sages | Lewis Eron |
| Trapped In Our Own Lies | Lewis Eron |
| These Are The Names | Micah Becker-Klein |
| Naming the Divine | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Moses' Double Mission | Lewis Eron |
| A Plague of Darkness | Michael Strassfeld |
| Responsibility and the Hardened Heart | Steven Carr Reuben |
| What Is True In This Moment | Jacob Staub |
| A Plague of Darkness | Michael Strassfeld |
| The Rituals of Democracy | Yael Ridberg |
| "Hearing" The "Voice" of God | Howard Cohen |
| Sinai and Humanity | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Turning Memory into Empathy: The Torah’s Ethical Charge | Shai Held |
| Filling the Earth with God's Presence | Ellen Dannin |
| A Pilgrimage and a Reckoning | Mark Pinsky |
| The Torah as Puzzle: Rearranging the Parts | Jeffrey Schein |
| Why Be Good? | Ellen Dannin |
| Trying to Limit the Divine | Lewis Eron |
| The Importance of Vision | Jeffrey Schein |
| Journeying from the Personal to the Communal | James Greene |
| Coming Together | Steven Carr Reuben |
| The Importance of Vision | Jeffrey Schein |
| Journeying from the Personal to the Communal | James Greene |
| Coming Together | Steven Carr Reuben |
| The Ascending Heart | Jeffrey Schein |
| The Eternal Flame Within Us All | Arlene Berger |
| Tzav: The Haftarah as Commentary | Jonathan Kligler |
| What Is True In This Moment | Jacob Staub |
| Strange Fire: A Midrash | Steven Nathan |
| Life, Death and Holiness | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Blood | Ellen Dannin |
| The Mighty Waters of Justice & Love | Yael Ridberg |
| Life, Death and Holiness | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Love the Stranger as Yourself | Jonathan Kligler |
| The Mighty Waters of Justice & Love | Yael Ridberg |
| An Eye For An Eye? | Jonathan Kligler |
| It's Not Fair! | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Blessings and Curses | Lewis Eron |
| Land | Richard Hirsh |
| Land | Richard Hirsh |
| Blessings and Curses | Lewis Eron |
| Covenant as Marriage | Howard Cohen |
| Nachshon: Did He Jump Or Was He Pushed? | Steven Nathan |
| Everyone Counts | Jonathan Kligler |
| The True Honor | Lewis Eron |
| The Nazirite | Richard Hirsh |
| From Impurity to Blessing | Toba Spitzer |
| Just A Little Prayer Will Do | Lewis Eron |
| Be Careful What You Wish For | David Stein |
| Are We There Yet? | Jonathan Kligler |
| Healing the Crushed Spirit | Jonathan Kligler |
| Putting Aside Fear for Courage | Steven Carr Reuben |
| The Reminder of Tzitzit | Steven Nathan |
| Leadership | Steven Nathan |
| Who Has The Authority To Change Judaism? | Richard Hirsh |
| Why Did Korah Rebel? | Elizabeth Bolton |
| Who Was Korakh? | Lewis Eron |
| The Well of Tradition and Miriam's Well | Lewis Eron |
| Reacting to Loss | Arlene Berger |
| On Being A Paradox Jew | Michael Cohen |
| Balaam Recognizes the One God | Richard Hirsh |
| How Good It Is | Jonathan Kligler |
| The Next Generation | David Steinberg |
| Equal Before God | Steven Nathan |
| Transitioning Leadership | Richard Hirsh |
| Silence as Protest | Howard Cohen |
| The Importance of Re-reading Torah | Richard Hirsh |
| The Inner Journey | Jonathan Kligler |
| Making the Epic Personal | Lewis Eron |
| The Inner Journey | Jonathan Kligler |
| Making the Epic Personal | Lewis Eron |
| The Importance of Re-reading Torah | Richard Hirsh |
| Shabbat Hazon | Richard Hirsh |
| Retelling Our Story | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Finding Your Voice | Jonathan Kligler |
| The Ten Commandments | David Stern |
| It Reached No Further | Howard Cohen |
| Our Sustaining Hope | Lewis Eron |
| Shabbat Naḥamu | Richard Hirsh |
| Living the Good Life | Ellen Dannin |
| By Bread Alone? | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Open Your Hand | Jonathan Kligler |
| Be Happy! | Eric Mendelsohn |
| Melekh Ha-Olam, Sovereign of All | Lewis Eron |
| Justice, Justice | Jonathan Kligler |
| Consequences | Elizabeth Bolton |
| First Fruits | Steven Nathan |
| Serving God in Gladness | Lewis Eron |
| The Inner Witness | Jonathan Kligler |
| Standing Together This Day | Steven Nathan |
| Standing Together in Covenant | Howard Cohen |
| Choose Life! | Jonathan Kligler |
| Standing Together This Day | Steven Nathan |
| You Should Live To Be 120 | Lewis Eron |
| Standing Together in Covenant | Howard Cohen |
| Choose Life! | Jonathan Kligler |
| When Will We Ever Learn? | Mira Beth Wasserman |
| Our Akeidah, Our Binding | Ellen Dannin |
| The Akeida: Questions of Sacrifice | Sydney Nestel |
| Future Prayer | Ellen Dannin |
| Eleh Ezakara - Sacrifice and Martyrdom | Lewis Eron |
| Sukkot: Yom Kippur's Counterbalance | Michael Cohen |
| Moses Died With A Promised Land | Ellen Dannin |
| Taking Down the Sukkah | Lewis Eron |
| Love Trumps Power | Jeremy Schwartz |
| Covenant as Marriage | Howard Cohen |
| Revelation as a Gift | Steven Carr Reuben |
| Shabbat Hazon | Richard Hirsh |
| Our Sustaining Hope | Lewis Eron |
| Shabbat Naḥamu | Richard Hirsh |
| The Modern Meaning of Tisha b'Av | Lewis Eron |
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