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...

Newsletter Post – April 11, 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally published April 11, 2024 I hope you had an awe-filled experience looking at the eclipse this past Monday! It is not an accident that the eclipse landed on the same day as Rosh Hodesh Nisan, the Hebrew month in which we cele brate Pesach, as solar eclipses...

Newsletter Post – April 4, 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally Published April 4, 2024 This past weekend, I drove to visit family in New York, essentially following the path of totality for next week’s social eclipse. All along the route, on both sides of the border, were ample signs reminding drivers of the...

Newsletter Post – March 14, 2024

by | Sep 27, 2024 | Rabbi's Corner

Originally published March 14, 2024 Chodesh tov! As of Monday, we are officially in the Hebrew month of Adar II, and counting down the days until our Purim celebration on March 23. The Talmud (Taanit 29a) teaches that when the month of Adar begins, joy increases...