Torah From Boca
Torah From Boca
Rabbi David Baum
When You’re Strange: What Judaism Teaches About Belonging
16 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2025 at 10:06 pm.
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Jim Morrison once sang, “When you’re strange, no one remembers your name.” This week in Parashat Eikev, I reflect on how the Torah commands us to do the opposite: to remember and to love the stranger, because we ourselves were strangers in Egypt. I share why this mitzvah is the most repeated in the Torah, how it speaks to today’s epidemic of loneliness, and what it means to build a Jewish community where no one is left unseen or forgotten.

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