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Rabbi Juliana S. Karol serves alongside Rabbi Ben Spratt as assistant rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York, NY.

Encountering God in the Sacred Silence

Rabbi Ben Spratt
In Sh’mot Rabbah, we read: “Rabbi Abahu said, “When the Holy One gave the Torah, no bird cried out... ” Our lives today are so full of artificial sound, it makes it difficult for us to tune into silence. In Vayikra, God calls to Moses out of that silence.

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