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Toward Shabbat: Sukkot of Joy

09/29/2023 09:04:38 AM

Sep29

September 29th, 2023
14 Tishrei 5784
Sukkot has always been one of my favorite holidays. There is something that feels so joyful about Sukkot. It’s Read more...

Toward Shabbat: Writing Our Book

09/22/2023 09:10:37 AM

Sep22

September 22nd, 2023
7 Tishrei 5784
The Talmud teaches that three books are opened on Rosh Hashanah and closed at the end of Yom Kippur. The thoroughlRead more...

Toward Shabbat: Shana Tova!

09/15/2023 08:45:43 AM

Sep15

September 15th, 2023
29 Elul 5783
The Talmud, in tractate Rosh Hashanah teaches: “Rabbi Yeshohua ben Levi said ‘All the words of Creation were crRead more...

Toward Shabbat: Worthy

09/08/2023 09:45:29 AM

Sep8

September 8th, 2023
22 Elul 5783
Today, we are one week from Rosh Hashanah. If we take the work of entering into the holiday season seriously, it can Read more...

Toward Shabbat: A Symbol of Hope

09/01/2023 10:13:14 AM

Sep1

September 1st, 2023
15 Elul 5783
This parsha opens with a familiar passage to many - because of its inclusion in the Passover seder - about an ancestoRead more...

Toward Shabbat: Forty Days

08/18/2023 08:56:38 AM

Aug18

August 18th, 2023
1 Elul 5783

Today is Rosh Chodesh Elul, the beginning of the season of repentance, as it’s known in our tradition. But that EngliRead more...

Toward Shabbat: Gardening

08/11/2023 01:12:28 PM

Aug11

August 11th, 2023
24 Av 5783
In April, we went to Lowe’s and bought four different kinds of tomato plants, a mint plant, and a strawberry plant. EveRead more...

Toward Shabbat: Fullness

07/28/2023 08:45:18 AM

Jul28

July 28th, 2023
10 Av 5783
Yesterday was Tisha b’Av, the 9th of Av, considered the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. We commemorate all sorts of cRead more...

Toward Shabbat: Tisha b'Av

07/21/2023 10:05:45 AM

Jul21

July 21st, 2023
3 Av 5783
The summer of 1992 my family spent a few months in Israel, and I remember sitting on the floor of a synagogue in the Baka neRead more...

Toward Shabbat: Hope in the Well

06/30/2023 10:16:22 AM

Jun30

June 30th, 2023
11 Tammuz 5783
My favorite of Debbie Friedman’s songs emerges from this week’s Parsha. 

Miriam the prophet died and was buried Read more...
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