By Rabbi Andrea Steinberger
Now is the Jewish month of Elul. The leaves are turning brown and falling from the trees, and it is a good month for walking outside, enjoying the cooler air, and feeling the approach of our Jewish new year. While many see these days and weeks as a time to turn i…
By Rabbi Judy Greenberg
This week’s parshah famously begins with God telling Avraham, “Lech Lecha,” “Go from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). God initiates this tremendous journey that leads all the way to us, in thi…
By Rabbi Andrea Steinberger
Come back, come home
I’m gathering the crumbs and the stones
Been travelling faster than my soul can go
One subject line, one click away
But at the end of the day
I couldn’t even say
The things that I had done
I recently heard this song, The Speed of Soul, …
By Rabbi Avremel Matusof
Shortly after Mushkie and I moved back to town ten years ago, I developed an elevator pitch for starting private Torah sessions - “Have you ever studied the entire Torah from Genesis 1:1?”
Whether the one being pitched accepted the offer or not, the pitch almo…
By Rabbi Jonathan Biatch
This has been an amazingly difficult year for all of us in this sacred community. The confinement and struggles from the pandemic, not to mention the illnesses and deaths affecting hundreds of thousands both in the world and here in our community, have caused us to …
