Newsletter Post – May 30, 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally published May 30, 2024 I was reminded this week of one of Israeli poet’s Yehuda Amichai’s most well-known poems, “The Place Where We Are Right.” Catching up on podcasts from the past few weeks, I listened to Poetry Unbound’s...

Newsletter Post – May 23 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally published May 23, 2024 This week’s Torah portion is chock full of ancient practices that have fallen by the wayside, long before our modern era. We have guidelines for biblical slavery, the laws for the yovel – jubilee year – and the practice of...

Newsletter Post – May 16, 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally published May 16, 2024 Our weekly Torah portion, Emor, opens with a set of instructions to the priests regarding how to prevent becoming impure through physical contact with a dead body. If you’ve been in a traditional Jewish funeral home, you may...

Newsletter Post – May 9 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally published May 9, 2024 This week’s Torah portion, Kedoshim, is part of a section of Leviticus known as “the Holiness Code.” Smack dab in the middle of our Torah, we have a blueprint for what it means to live in holiness with other humans, a...

Newsletter Post – April 25, 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally Publsihed April 25, 2024 Macaroons and matza toffee, brisket, salmon, or chicken, gefilte fish, matza ball soup, charoset (in so many different varieties!), huevos haminados or hard boiled eggs…our list of beloved Passover foods goes on and on.  Whatever...

Newsletter Post – April 18, 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally published April 18, 2024 As I prepare for Pesach and the seders, I am painfully aware that this year is not like every other year. It is Israel’s first wartime Pesach, if you discount prior periods of conflict that stretched on for years, like the...