Leah named her son Yehuda — "I will give thanks." That name became Jew. We are the people named for thank you.

Moses asks his last words to land like rain on young grass. After Yom Kippur, seventy students in a Michigan parking lot showed him they did.

Ki Teitzei packs seventy-four commandments into one parsha. Most of them are tiny. All of them assume you left the house this morning.

We drove the group to the airport, returned the rental car, and got on a train to Jerusalem. Some journeys end when you leave. Some end when you decide to stay.