Curses and Places
It is important to note that there is a distinction between grieving a person and grieving a reality.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz
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On Birds, Roofs and Public Health – Toward A Better Theology for Elisha ben Abuya
The rabbinic sage Elisha ben Abuya witnessed an obedient and pious boy fulfill the mitzvah of sending away the mother bird, as per the Torah’s instructions. He ascended the tree, shooed away the bird, collected the eggs and then fell to his death.
Making the Invisible Visible: Honoring our Interfaith Families
Few things are as instructive as seeing Judaism through another’s eyes.
Rebuilding Our Hearts
The cool, distant glare of history does not always reveal the granular, immediate heat of our anguish.
We Didn’t Start The Fire
This Shabbat is also known as Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song. This name refers to ‘Shirat haYam’, the ‘Song of the Sea’ that Moses and Miriam sang on the shores of the Sea of Reeds that they had redemptively crossed. I hope you’ll please indulge me as I start with this sermon with a […]
What did the day after look like? Feel like?
For forty days and forty nights, they had been in the bowels of the ark, as the rains pounded down and the waters of the earth spewed forth.
Kol Nidre Sermon 5785
Today, I want to talk about a new teacher at whose feet I – quite literally – sit.
Erev Rosh HaShanah Sermon 5785
‘How are you?’ It’s a loaded question, isn’t it?
