Author

  • Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet

    Adam Zagoria-Moffet is the rabbi of St. Albans Masorti Synagogue in the UK. He was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary where he also received an MA in Jewish Thought. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and has lived in Minnesota, New York, and Israel before moving to the UK. His interests are primarily in mysticism, ethics, and Sephardic Judaism and culture. He also runs Izzun Books, a small independent publisher of unusual Jewish titles. He lives in St. Albans with his family.

The Danger of the Divine

The Danger of the Divine

Yom Kippur is a reminder about yirah, about awe. God is here, powerful, and dangerous. The best response to that is a sense of yirah.