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Atah Chonen: A Prayer for Wisdom
From My Jewish Learning
Prayer offers us a daily opportunity to embrace God with words while seeking — through the language of petition and supplication — a way to articulate our most profound needs. It is in the searching and… Continue reading
Inviting the Presence: A Drasha for Rosh HaShanah 5781
By Reb Daniel Lev
In Deuteronomy 30:11-14 it says: “For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say: ‘Who… Continue reading
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life Well Lived
By Sid Goldstein
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, 2020. She was arguably, the most important Jewish supreme court justice since Felix Frankfurter. Judge Ginsberg lived an extraordinary life. In her roles as both a litigator and… Continue reading
Rosh HaShanah Drash: 9.20.2020
By Avi Soifer
In a time of crisis: “Don’t just stand there, do something!”—A response, I think from Truah: Don’t just do something, stand there. I think of the ancient religions of Mesopotamia: “[T]he sign of the god… Continue reading
Sof as a Community
By Sandra Z. Armstrong
As a community we have remained close, stayed together and reached incredible heights of ruach, creating uplifting, joyous zoom Shabbats for the last six months. Our experiences and spiritual connections on zoom are a community achievement… Continue reading
The Jewish Holidays following Yom Kippur
| Friday evening, October 2 | Erev Sukkot |
| Saturday, October 3 | Shabbat Sukkot |
| Sunday, October 4 | Sukkot Festival Day |
| Monday-Friday, October 5-9 | Chol HaMoed regular workdays during Sukkot. |
| Friday evening, October 9 | Shemini Atseret into Saturday October 10 |
| Saturday night October 10… Continue reading |
Some Amusement
Humor from Les Rosenthal
Q: Why didn’t thecomputerized shofar work on Rosh Hashanah?
A: The rabbi didn’t buy enough RAM
“Shalom, and welcome to the atonement hotline. At the tone, please be a mensch, and unburden your soul by… Continue reading
Levinson-Krupp Library
Levinson-Krupp Library
This library was dedicated 50 years ago to the memory of Rebecca Lewin Levinson and Brannette Mayer Krupp by Justice and Mrs. Bernard Levinson. Over the years the library fell into disrepair, but starting in 2005 was redesigned… Continue reading
Forbidden Fruit, Rosh Hashanah, and Our Charge to Take Care of the World
Organic Torah, By Rabbi Nathan Margalit
According to Hasidic traditions, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, worked in a deeper way than we usually think about… Continue reading
- The Royal Road to Relational SpiritualityThis is a 10 session course taught in 2019. Click here to purchase full course recordings. Click here for a free download of first session. Derekh HaMelekh— “The Royal Road”—is a collection of Shabbat and holiday teachings by Reb Kalanymous Kalman Shapira, who was the “Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto” as well as a major […]
- Rising Above Isolation: The Piaseczner Rebbe’s Shavuot Torah of ConnectionDates and Times: Tuesdays – May 12, May 19, May 267 – 8 pm EST Cost: Pay-what-you-can Presenter: Rabbi Dr. Natan Margalit Description: We’ll learn together an amazing Shavuot Torah by Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapiro, the Piaseczner Rebbe, also known for being the Hasidic Rebbe in the Warsaw Ghetto during the horrific years of the Holocaust. In this Torah he explores […]
- Islamists have declared war on France, Jewish community leader says following fatal church stabbingsA man shouting about Allah beheaded one woman outside a church in Nice and killed two additional victims before police shot him. The post Islamists have declared war on France, Jewish community leader says following fatal church stabbings appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- You can buy an 18th-century Torah shield that matches the Israel Museum’s (if you have $1M)Sotheby's calls the shields "the most important pieces of Judaica to appear at auction in a generation." The post You can buy an 18th-century Torah shield that matches the Israel Museum’s (if you have $1M) appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.