Vayikra for Tots
A guide to help adults learn how to engage young children in a discussion about this week’s Torah portion.
Moses’s Death, God’s Breath
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses," Poems, vol. 2, 1842)
On Passover, Hope Springs Eternal
Only in Israel are there kosher-for-Passover buns at McDonald's. Only in Israel do non-Kosher restaurants offer you a choice of bread and/or matzah.
Shabbat Chol HaMo-eid Pesach: The Cleft in the Rock
On the Sabbath during Passover, we take a break from the sacred and the profane, from sin and sacrifice, from what fits and what is unfit; we set aside all things Leviticus and step into another world.
Keeping Watch Through the Generations
That was for the Eternal a night of vigil [leil shimurim] to bring them out of the land of Egypt; that same night is the Eternal's, one of vigil for all the children of Israel throughout the ages. Exodus 12:42
Observing and Remembering: Joseph's Bones and Ours
Years ago, I was privileged to serve on the beit din for a conversion I will never forget. The forthright geir (the individual choosing Judaism) announced to the intergenerational and interdenominational beit din , "I am becoming an observant Jew.
B'midbar for Tots
Explore B'midbar with questions and ideas for parents and their children on the topic of names, how we get them, and what they mean.