Daily Kavanah – Friday, January 29, 2021
Shabbat Shirah: The Sabbath of the Song This Shabbat is celebrated throughout the Jewish world with a focus on a central theme: the [...]
Shabbat Shirah: The Sabbath of the Song This Shabbat is celebrated throughout the Jewish world with a focus on a central theme: the [...]
In Israel, Tu B'Shevat is a national holiday. It is customary to eat a great amount of fruit on Tu B'Shevat—particularly fruits that [...]
As Tu B’Shevat begins this evening at sundown, the image of trees seems an appropriate metaphor for our own lives. I find the [...]
This week, in honor of the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, we give our Sabbath the special name of Shabbat Shira: Sabbath [...]
This week in the Jewish calendar and in the cycle of Torah readings we are gifted with much to think about and much [...]
We began this week remembering the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who asserted that “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: [...]
Then the Eternal said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order [...]
And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it. Somehow, we do it. Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed A nation that isn’t [...]
In November of 1938, my grandparents left their own town of Essen, Germany and walked the streets of another village where no one [...]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of [...]