The power of the Seder
04/21/2022 11:53:30 PM
Every year when we sit down to our Passover seders, I reflect on the great miracle of this experience. The miracle is not that the sea split as the Israelites were on their way to freedom. That was pretty nice. The miracle is not even...Read more...
What is holding us together?
01/24/2022 02:09:17 PM
I've had a lot on my mind this week. As you know, last week, at around this time at a suburb outside of Dallas, Texas, the horrible situation took place as five people were taken hostage at a Congregation Beth Israel during a Shabbat service. As I mentioned in the letter I wrote to this community, while anything that affects the Jewish community or a place of worship feels especially difficult as a rabbi, this one hit very close to...Read more...
Fighting back with Life
09/19/2021 10:52:40 PM
Kol Nidre - 5782
Hidden among the gems of news, the usual mix of good, bad, and flat out depressing of these past few months was one headline that I am sure most people overlooked. Just a few months ago, in Krakow Poland an...Read more...
Another way to be
09/10/2021 09:06:42 AM
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon
5782/2021
Last year, I’d say around late April or May, I started imagining I was in Anatevka, the fictional shtetl from Fiddler on the Roof. It may have started, well I am sure it started, after...Read more...
Breaking free: Israel, Shavuot and Peace
05/17/2021 07:44:00 PM
Bamidbar Dvar Torah May 15, 2021
Whenever I hear the news about violence and suffering in Israel, I like so many of you, take it personally. We have been to these cities, we have walked these streets and seen those faces before. ...Read more...
a year later
03/15/2021 01:32:21 PM
Parshat Vayechel-Pekudei
March 13, 2021/29 Adar, 5781
A year is gone. A year of a pandemic that came down like a rock a few days after Purim last year, and led to some of the deepest challenges that we have...Read more...
Feeding the birds
01/25/2021 01:51:57 PM
Beshalach 5780 (reposting my dvar Torah from the past year)
Waking up this morning and looking outside at the cold cloudy weather it is hard to believe that in just a few days on Tu Beshavat we are supposed to be imagining that the sap is starting to flow in the trees, that growth is beginning and yes, spring is on its way. After the amount of time I spent digging out my car last night, I am not sure if...Read more...
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