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Inspired 5781: More Art, More Awe

By

Rebecca Guber

I grew up going to services. A lot of services. I was adept at counting the ceiling tiles, reaching into the thousands as my grasp of numbers grew more sophisticated. The melodies became part of my life soundtrack; I hummed them as my mind wandered during the rabbi’s sermon.

Torrah and Kippah

Honor Is Not Enough

May 6, 2006

Focal Point

You shall each revere your mother and your father, and keep My sabbaths: I the Eternal am your God. (Leviticus 19:3)

D'var Torah

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This Yom Kippur, Let Your Emotions Serve as "Radical Blessings"

By

C.E. Harrison

As we no longer serve God through temple sacrifices, many Jews have come to understand the entire world, in essence, to be God’s temple. This year, I believe we have vandalized God’s temple with the blood of the innocent.

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How to Use the URJ Reflection Tool

By

Rabbi Esther L. Lederman

Rabbi Leora Kaye

We recently introduced the URJ Reflection Project, a tool for the High Holidays that can be found at reflect.reformjudaism.org. Here, we share suggestions of how to use its many ideas with your congregation.

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With Wounds Still Open, We Ask: Where is God?

By

Rabbi Sandra Cohen

I do not believe that God sent us COVID-19, and I do not believe God will cure it. That is for humans to do, using our God-given intellect and ambition to develop the vaccines and treatments that will help stop the spread of this natural virus.

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Your Guide to Fasting (or Not) on Yom Kippur

For many Jews, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a fasting holiday – a day during which we abstain from eating, drinking, and even brushing our teeth or using perfumes. (Learn more about what we abstain from and why.)

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How to Turn Your Home into a Sanctuary for the High Holidays

By

Rabbi Elyse Goldstein

Like our ancestors before us, we must again bring worship “inside” and create a sacred space at home while we are in front of our computers.

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How to Get into the High Holidays State of Mind

By

Rabbi Julie Zupan

It's a challenge and necessity, especially during this pandemic, to set boundaries between work time and family or personal time, between home office and home. How do we do that, emotionally?

Torrah and Kippah

Being Holy - and Staying Alive

May 2, 2015

Acharei Mot, the first of this week's two parashiyot, begins on an unsettling note—a reminder of the death of Aaron's sons and the suggestion that such tragedies might occur again unless the priests take specified steps to prevent them

Remembering Yom Kippurim Past

By

Howard Lev

Last Yom Kippur afternoon, unable to concentrate because of the rumblings of my stomach – which I hoped only I could hear – my mind began to wander.