WHAT YOUR RABBI WANTS TO SAY THIS PASSOVER
18/04/2024 09:30:06 PM
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WHAT YOUR RABBI WANTS TO SAY THIS PASSOVER
For many of my waking hours, and for too many hours that should not be waking hours, I ponder this: what do folks want their rabbi to be saying right now?
I know what I would prefer to be offering: creative and uplifting visions about the Passover seder; creative and uplifting...Read more...
Here and There
15/02/2024 05:34:45 PM
Rabbi Liz
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HERE AND THERE
Here: the memes proliferate, the slogans fly, the protests surge.
There: the suffering mounts, intolerably.
Here, in our non-war torn lives, it’s hard to know how much to tap into the enduring torment that prevails over there - amongst those struggling to survive in Gaza, or those waiting for their loved ones taken hostage on October 7 to return – and still be able to maintain that...Read more...
December's Dates
06/12/2023 09:00:13 PM
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And Yet... Towards Hope
07/11/2023 10:05:06 PM
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Elusive Words Towards Peace.
25/10/2023 12:00:44 PM
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Holy Masking Batman
12/09/2023 10:30:12 PM
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BRESLAV and PEACE
02/03/2022 12:36:06 PM
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In our Kol Haneshamah Shabbat and Festival prayerbook, the prayer for peace comes from Ukraine.
In a way, this declaration somewhat condenses the geo-history of the place, specifically the Jewish peoples’ place in that place. Yet there is no doubt that the figure...Read more...
"FOR SHE TOO IS LIKE A TREE"
06/01/2022 05:48:39 PM
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Looking back on some previous reflections on Tu Bishvat, I found this message, one that feels keenly relevant to this year:
We find ourselves, deep in winter, in the month of the Jewish New Year of the Trees, Tu Bishvat. At this time of the year the trees seem to the eye to be life-less. Where do we...Read more...
Whose Christmas Is It? Some Of Ours, Too!
21/12/2021 07:13:51 PM
Rabbi Liz
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Whose Christmas Is It? Some Of Ours, Too!
Is this you? You have a “Christmas Family.” They are your in-laws, your grandparents, or your cousins. It could be the beautiful kinship network that is your family-of-choice, or your partner. May your children celebrate with their half-siblings. Maybe, in those years when you go home for the Holidays, your childhood home is...Read more...
Human Rights As a Jewish Concept
07/12/2021 08:40:52 AM
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Human Rights As a Jewish Concept
How is human rights a Jewish concept? Is it even possible or appropriate to shoehorn an apparently secular construct into a specific religious or cultural context?
Two thoughts arise...Read more...
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