Daily Kavanah – Thursday, July 9, 2020
Jewish tradition offers us many ways to understand God, and the Hebrew language has over one hundred names for the Divine. Each of [...]
Jewish tradition offers us many ways to understand God, and the Hebrew language has over one hundred names for the Divine. Each of [...]
My dad and I share a common taste in books and movies and for many years we have shared in an informal book [...]
Illuminate the welders in shipyards with the brilliance of their torches. Let the crane operator lift up his arm for joy. Let the [...]
וֶהֱוֵי מְקַבֵּל אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם בְּסֵבֶר פָּנִים יָפוֹת Receive all people with a pleasant countenance. -Pirkei Avot 1:15 Every morning Adam, Ruby, and I [...]
Proclaim freedom for all the sons and daughters And will keep you as the apple of his eye Pleasant is your name and [...]
Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof. — Leviticus 25:10 In its original context, this verse—and the word for [...]
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” — Fannie Lou Hamer We’ve seen these words a lot of late, painted on signs carried through the [...]
The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, incised upon the tablets” (Exod. 32:17). Do not read, “incised,” (harut), rather [...]
Portions of this kavanah originally appeared on MyJewishLearning.com. Whether you heard it in Spaceballs or learned it in Hebrew school, “Let My people go” has been [...]
“To test the worth of a man’s religion, do business with him.” — John Lancaster Spalding In addition to being a bishop and [...]