By Rabbi Yona Matusof
The coming year 5782, is a Sabbatical year. For six years, work your fields; on the seventh year, you shall rest. This is remarkably similar in both content and language to Shabbat—for six days, you shall work, and on the seventh day, you shall rest.
Ordinarily, whe…
By Rabbi Betsy Forester
Every year at this time, we examine how we lived over the past year and bring to mind where we fell short of our best intentions--where we missed the mark. The High Holy Days offer an opportunity to unpack those experiences and seek their source. Why did we do what w…
By Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman
It’s been a difficult month. The joy of summer in Madison – with high vaccination rates and low COVID cases – diminished for many of us as the Delta variant emerged. We wonder whether we should go back to work. We wonder how safe our unvaccinated children wil…
By Rabbi Avremel Matusof
Just like that, another week has passed by.
Of course, that’s not completely accurate. We celebrated Shavuot on Monday and Tuesday. But, as festivals go, it is so short and quick.
It’s not just how short the festival is. There is nothing dramatic to commemorat…
By Rabbi Mendel Matusof
This Shavuot gets a quadruple three: 3,333 years of Torah. That's 3,333 years since we stood together as a single nation at Mount Sinai, trembling in awe as we accepted the entire Torah for all generations.
There has been so much ink spilled discussing Jewish peop…
