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Torrah and Kippah

Love Is the Key

When my son was learning to walk, I remember learning an important lesson about love. He would let go of the couch, take a few steps, and fall. I was amazed to feel an incredible pain in my own head when he would fall and bump his own. And that’s love in its purest form—when the connection you feel to someone else is so deep, you can actually feel what the other feels.
Torrah and Kippah

Discovering Your Real Name

Our tradition teaches that each of us has three names: the one we are given at birth, the one we are called, and our real name. The task of each person, according to the tradition, is to discover our real name.

Torrah and Kippah

What's in a Name?

Just as the Book of Genesis began with the awesome account of Creation and our place relative to the rest of the whole, the Book of Exodus reminds us of who God is and how our story is taken up into God's plan for humanity.

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