Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 6, 2021
Sunday begins the Hebrew month of Elul, a time of preparation leading up to Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, and the beginning of [...]
Shabbat Morning – August 7, 2021
Re'eh Shabbat Morning – August 7, 2021 Deuteronomy :26-:28 See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, August 5, 2021
אַשְׁרֵי אָדָם מְפַחֵד תָּמִיד Happy is the person who is always filled with awe (Proverbs 28:14). Next week marks the beginning of Elul, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, August 4, 2021
The Talmud is our sacred compendium of the Jewish oral tradition that encapsulates some of the greatest wisdom in all of our vast [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Having a genuine desire to pray and connect doesn’t always lead to what feels like meaningful prayer. Each of us have our own [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, August 2, 2021
As your cantor, I like to think of my unofficial role as one who gets sweet, Jewish melodies stuck in your head. Nothing [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, July 30, 2021
I'm visiting family in New York this week. We drove out to Long Island to show our daughters where their mother grew up. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, July 29, 2021
What makes a person? This is the question repeatedly set before us by Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Dan Pagis, who died on [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, July 28, 2021
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. —George Bernard Shaw On this day in 1960, Jonathan Gold was born to [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Memories can often mean different things to different people. On this day in 1907, former Confederate Brigadier General and U.S. Senator Edmund Pettus [...]