This week, we receive our laws, the beginning of the blueprint for social society moving forward, the Ten Commandments. One of our favorites is to Honor thy Mother and Father. Let your loved ones know that you love them, check in with them, see if you can help them or just if...
This week, we cross the sea. This week, the adventure begins. This is the time in which we tap into what it feels to be redeemed, to become a nation. Shabbat Shalom!
This week, we are commanded to remember the Exodus, the defining event that creates our peoplehood. This is an honor and incredible responsibility for us all, humbling us to remember from where we came. Shabbat Shalom!
The beginning of a new book, a new journey, a new cycle of relearning what redemption means. May we continue to appreciate this wonderful new start. Shabbat Shalom!
Just like this snail is on a journey, this week we see the children of Israel on their way down to Egypt. Every journey we make takes us somewhere, and every place has goodness to be found. Shabbat shalom!
This Shabbat, during the Festival of Lights, we remember the first Yartzeit of the incredible Rosalind Fox Jacobson, mother of our founder, David. Roz reminded us of many of the lessons of Hannukah; to sing, to be joyful, to eat delicious things, to call your family, and so much more. We wish...
Shabbat Shalom! May we all have a restful week.
This week, the children of Jacob, the family from which the Jewish people come from, are born. They don’t all get along, they have their challenges and their joys. As we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, we celebrate this whole scale of emotions and experiences with our own families just as those before...
This week, the Torah outlines the ins and outs of another complicated family structure. It reminds us to love, it reminds us to forgive, it reminds us that we are all human, we all deserve love and dignity. May we take this lesson into our homes and into our hearts this...
This week, we learn of the first burial in our tradition, our matriarch, Sarah. Through Abraham’s treatment of his beloved deceased, we practice our burial customs to this day. Shabbat shalom!
