Planting and Parenting: The Lessons of Tu BiShvat
Here is the quintessential Jewish question: How do we emulate God? We are told that we were created by God. We are told that we have a divine spark within us.
Here is the quintessential Jewish question: How do we emulate God? We are told that we were created by God. We are told that we have a divine spark within us.
With great excitement, tinged with a touch of trepidation, I moved to Israel in the summer of 1996 to begin my first year of rabbinical school at Hebrew Union College. There was so much to learn those first few months, from how to pay the phone bill (which,
By P.J. Schwartz
It's amazing to think that we have reached the end of another year retelling the amazing story of our Jewish people. From B'reshit to D'varim, we have spent each week engulfed in the journey of a people who have emerged into a community
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and stars that You set in place, what is man that You have been mindful of him, mortal man that You have taken note of him? -Psalms 8:4-5
On June 15th, the full moon of mid-Sivan, a full eclipse of
...There was a great and mighty wind, splitting mountains and shattering rocks by the power of the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind - an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
O my friends, why are we so earnest to kill ourselves?... It may be said that it is a manly act for one to kill himself.
by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
...Your sons and daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
-Joel 3:1
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