December 5, 2025 -
December 5, 2025 -
Making Our Blessings Count On Shabbat evening, after the graceful candles are lit and the family is gathered around the table, it’s customary for parents to bless their children. ThisRead More »
Drive a Mercedes Benz? My Jewish summer camp experiences always coincided with Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. While recounting the destruction of the Temple in JerusalemRead More »
Repeating Our Parents’ Behavior Sometimes, we repeat our parents’ behaviors without even realizing it. In our parsha, sons repeat their father’s behavior when Judah and his brethren are informed thatRead More »
The Word of the Year 2018 has been a tough year: school and synagogue shootings, massive wildfires and hurricanes, more #metoo issues, and turmoil in the Oval Office and withRead More »
All That Doesn’t Kill Me… Tragedy affects all of us. Some challenge us and make us stronger. Some make us weaker. Our Parsha seems to jump on the “All thatRead More »
Preserve the Love Last Shabbat we experienced the worst violence against the Jewish people in American history. In the days that followed, we perhaps received some of the greatest broad-spectrumRead More »
Looking Forward with Faith One of the things that intrigues me the most is the commonalities shared in origin stories or myths as some might say. Are they variants onRead More »
Sensing the Sublime The book of Genesis speeds quickly from the creation of the universe to the expansion of humankind on the face of the earth. The story is notRead More »
Confessing Upon Our Greatest Sin Howard Schwartz (from Rosh HaShanah fame) came over to me a few days ago: “Rabbi I don’t know what to do. I haven’t missed aRead More »
There’s a Famine in the Land… Last night, we began with the words: (Page 339) By the authority of the Heavenly Court And by the authority of this earthly court,Read More »
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