This week, we receive the Torah at Mount Sinai, the watershed moment in which we are given our lifeline, our laws, our blueprint for who we are as a people-hood. May we all continue to find the light and guidance that shines from our most ancient sources. Shabbat Shalom!
This week, we read Shirat Hayam, the song we sing as we cross the sea, finally leaving Egypt. We are taught to always see ourselves as we, individually, have left Egypt. This connects us each to the collective memory of this most magnificent moment in our peoplehood’s history. May we all be...
We are commanded to always remember leaving Egypt to arrive at freedom. We are commanded to remember what it was like to be a stranger in a strange land. At his speech commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz this past week, Reuben Rivlin, president of Israel, said in...
Shabbat Shalom. May we all have a peaceful and blessed week.
A new week, a new book, a new journey. Shabbat Shalom!
This week, in the last portion of the first book of the Torah, Jacob, otherwise known as Israel, our forefather, dies and is buried. He is the first person in the Torah to be mentioned as being gathered to his people rather than gathered to his fathers. This discussion of...
In this week's Torah portion Vayechi, Jacob asks Joseph to take an oath that he will bury him in the Holy Land. Upon his passing, a large funeral procession consisting of Jacob’s descendants, Pharaoh’s ministers, the leading citizens of Egypt and the Egyptian cavalry accompanies Jacob on his final journey...
This week, Yehudah, the namesake and source of the Jewish people, offers himself in order to save his brother, Benjamin. This act brings Jacob’s sons, the tribes of Israel, together, finally reunited and at peace. May we all be blessed to be reunited with those and that which we love. Shabbat shalom!
We wish everyone a very happy Shabbat Hannukah! May your life be filled with light.
This Shabbat, we celebrate the life and accomplishments of Rosalind Jacobson, mother of founder, David. Loss and grieving is something we all experience. We thank the community for being strong and supporting us in this difficult time. Dealing with the death of a loved one is never easy. May we all...
