I’m a philosopher and an artist. A systems thinker and a builder. I translate between languages — between traditions, between ideas and reality, between people who don’t quite see each other yet.
I grew up in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. I dropped out of high school. I tried college for half a year and rabbinical school for a few months in two different places. None of it stuck the way it was supposed to. I learned what I needed by living. I work from the periphery — a hedge witch, more or less. The view’s better from the edges.
The thinkers I keep returning to are Abraham Joshua Heschel, Marcus Aurelius, and Hunter S. Thompson. Different traditions, same project: how to see clearly and act anyway.
I live in Jerusalem. I speak English and Hebrew and a little Arabic.
What this site is for
This is for the things I want people to engage with fifty years from now. The essays argue. The poems don’t. The tools are tools. The art is art.
If anything I write changes your mind, or the world, that’s the only reason it exists.
What I’m working from
The argument under all the arguments is that every human being is equal in the image of the divine — and that this isn’t a sentiment but a halakhic, political, and practical commitment with consequences I’m still working out. The first time I really understood what that meant was meeting a Palestinian man face to face for the first time, when I was tending bar at a hotel in Jerusalem and he was a guest. Most of what I’ve written since is downstream of that moment.
I might be wrong about how fast any of this changes. I’m not sure which way to update.
If you’re new here
Start with The Perks of Being a Maimonidean. It’s the cleanest door into what I think halakha is for, and most of the rest builds outward from there.
Or read around. The Topics page is the map.
What you can ask me to do
I’m available for consulting — strategy, systems, translation work, the awkward middle between vision and execution. The Contact page is the way in.