micro-miskhan a home for pacifist Torah learning
founded by
Rabbi Anita Josefa Barzman MD
about micro-mishkan
Rabbi Anita Josefa Barzman MD founded micro-mishkan to offer a place to gather and connect with Torah in meaningful and life-changing ways.
Here, she will share her weekly pacifist Torah commentaries and a selection of her poems on similar themes.
Your study of Torah can deepen your understanding of ethics and compassion, and inspire you to act to promote justice and peace in our precious world.
Study, gather, create, change the world.
what is a mishkan?
a mishkan is a dwelling place, a home, from the Hebrew verbal root √שכן (sh-ch-n): to dwell, to settle, to abide.
what dwells inside of you?
your innate curiosity, your questions, the inner wrestling you do as you try to live an ethical life, your desire to learn and to act with justice and compassion... all dwell inside of you - your mishkan.
Rabbi Barzman on Toldot
Toldot 5785 - Wells, Water, Strife, Shalom || From impasse to broadminded coexistence
Rabbi Barzman on Chayei Sarah
Chayei Sarah 5786 - Grief can connect us: Small letter, large meaning
Chayei Sarah 5785: His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him...
pierced | going blank
a poem that resonates with the theme of the universality of grief
Rabbi Barzman on Vayera
Vayera 5786 Mob Mentality | Debasement of Ethics
Vayera 5785 Abraham and Collective Punishment | The Innocent Along With the Guilty
Rabbi Barzman on Lech Lecha
Lech Lecha 5786 - War isn't murder: Abram's violence, his vision, and his fever dream
Lech Lecha 5785 Unity of blessings, diversity of curses
Rabbi Barzman on Noach
Noach 5786 - Now we're talking: The Tower of Babel, and why this Rabbi is learning Arabic
Noach 5785 Doves | Olives | Peace
Rabbi Barzman on Beresheit
Beresheit 5786 - Darkness into light; parsha and haftarah
Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Parsha Beresheit from 5784 to 5785 Still Praying for Peace
Rabbi Barzman on V'Zot HaBerachah and Simchat Torah
V'zot HaBerachah 5786 - The Torah is our true inheritance
Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Parsha Beresheit from 5784 to 5785 Still Praying for Peace
Rabbi Barzman on Sukkot and Simchat Torah
Sukkot 5786 -Can we find joy in a time of collective face blindness?
Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Parsha Beresheit from 5784 to 5785 Still Praying for Peace
Rabbi Barzman on Parashat Ha'azinu
Ha'azinu Turned around, in the wilderness again
Rabbi Barzman on Rosh Hashanah 5786
Rosh Hashanah 5786 - The earthquake we need
Rabbi Barzman on Parashat Nitzavim
Nitzavim 5785 - Taking a stand against collective punishment
Nitzavim x Psalm 27 | Elul 5784 - Extraorindary points
Rabbi Barzman on Parashat Ki Teitzei
Ki Teiztzei 5785 - What is a nest? Wounded child, no surviving family
Ki Teitzei 5784 - You must not be indifferent: returning what is lost
Rabbi Barzman on Parashat Ki Tavo & Elul
Ki Tavo x Elul 5784 - Impossible Algebra
Nitzavim x Psalm 27 / Elul 5784 Extraordinary points
some of Rabbi Barzman's other pacifist Torah commentaries