The Shofar Blasts as a Metaphor for Life
If, as the Talmud tells us, the blasts of the shofar are meant to remind us of crying, (Babylonian Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 33A – specifically of Sisera’s mother – but that is another subject!), then I would offer the following.
God Who Emerged from the Color of a Burkha
First Response
Galilee Diary: Pesach in the Galilee
The mountainsides were festooned with multicolored wild flowers. The Bedouin shepherds led their flocks to graze along the lush valleys.
Galilee Diary: Traffic Control
When you build a new house, you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.
-Deuteronomy 22:8
Galilee Diary: The season of our liberation
And when you enter the land that the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite.
The Gift of Death
My confirmation at Temple Emanu-El did not happen in the usual manner. Away at boarding school, I could not attend weekly Sunday school class with the other young people preparing for this rite of passage.
My Special Bar Mitzvah Gift in the World of Yesterday
It was a most unusual and special Bar Mitzvah gift.
Remembering Who (You Never Knew) You Were
Originally published on Chicago Carless
Separate, Pure, and Holy
Shabbat as a Movie
My rabbi asked, "If Shabbat were a movie, would you stay until the end? Would you walk out in the middle? Would you buy the DVD?" I thought about services and why I try and get there every Friday night.