Daily Kavanah — Friday, June 12
“One who shames her neighbor publicly is akin to one who sheds the blood of another.” — Babylonian Talmud Bab Metzia 58B In [...]
Daily Kavanah — Thursday, June 11
“Should you ask yourselves, ‘How can we know that the oracle was not spoken by Adonai?’ Well, if the prophet speaks in the [...]
Daily Kavanah — Tuesday, June 9
“We must create a new people, a human people whose attitude toward other peoples is informed with the sense of human brotherhood and [...]
Daily Kavanah — Wednesday, June 10
“The face speaks to me and thereby invites me to a relation… the face opens the primordial discourse whose first word is obligation.” [...]
Remember
Recently I helped enter an eight-day-old boy into a covenant that is thousands of years old. That’s a privilege. I remember when at [...]
Eyes on Wise – Friday, May 1
What makes us “holy?" The commandment to guard and observe Shabbat is a central core value of [...]
Dayeinu! Enough Already!
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback The word דיינו (dayeinu) means “it’s enough for us!” When we sing “Dayeinu” at our seders this year, it [...]
Gallery of Wise Distance Learning!
Dear Wise Families, As we transition into Spring Break and a very much needed rest for our hard-working faculty, students and parents, we [...]
Hope in the Wilderness
By Cantor Emma Lutz In this week’s Torah portion, Tzav, God—through Moses—initiates Aaron and his sons in the holy sacrificial services of the [...]
Concrete Ways You Can Help During This Crisis
by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback Our tradition teaches that, in times of crisis, our people do not sit back and pray for a miracle. [...]