Posts tagged with “Jewish Reflections” (All posts)
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The Earth is the Lords
19 January 2024Psalm 24:1 Dear friends, There is a day on the Jewish calendar that has acquired the character of “Tree Celebration.” It’s called Tu B’Shvat, which means simply the 15th of…
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Finding Ourselves in an Age of Distraction
22 March 2023The story is told of a sweet old man named Zusya (his name in Yiddish means “sweet.”) On his deathbed Zusya was found by his friends weeping. They asked him,…
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Tending the Garden
14 December 2021The first human misstep in the Garden of Eden was environmental overreach. God told the humans they could eat from any number of fine-looking trees bearing delicious fruit. Except one.…
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Holidays peak, and wind down …
28 September 2021Dear friends, I learned only recently about the Chinese Moon Festival (thanks to our campus multi-faith conversations, at which we gather to share about our respective traditions.) For those of…
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Permeable Boundaries
7 May 2021Our country continues to struggle with a basic human dilemma of being a community. Where are the borders? Who is in, or who can come in, and why? Strangely, at…
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Open the Windows!
25 March 2021Time to throw open the windows and welcome spring! What a relief! Hopefully this means diminished social isolation as more of us get vaccinated. And with the weather drawing us…
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Words Create Worlds
12 February 2021Before the Senate impeachment hearings this week, Senate Chaplain Barry Black offered this prayer: Almighty God … abide with our lawmakers.Teach them to speak the right words at the right…
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Thoughts on Change: The Power of a Look in the Mirror
16 September 2020In a compelling article discussing the history of slavery in this country, and our collective journey since its formal abolition, writer Nikole Hannah-Jones says the following: “[The] ideology – that…
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D’var Torah on the Murder of George Floyd
17 June 2020I offer these words on the killing, the murder, of George Floyd as a “d’varTorah” – words of Torah, in the broadest sense of the word. Torah is not only…
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George Floyd, of Blessed Memory
28 May 2020It has not been my custom to consistently write about the latest horror in our world as it is being broadcast over the media. As a rabbi and as a…
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