Daily Kavanah – Thursday, April 2, 2020
Earning Self-Respect: A Lesson from a Student and Friend I have been teaching a Torah study class in Brentwood for over fourteen years. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Celebrate Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel teaches, “people of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Don’t Always Follow Your Heart One of the mantras of our secular world is the notion that one should follow their heart. We [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, March 30, 2020
Warning Lights A few weeks ago, as a way to unwind, I decided to “take a drive” without destination. No radio or music. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 27, 2020
We’ve been watching a lot of Frozen 2 at our house, thanks to Disney’s outstanding choice to release it early on their streaming platform. In [...]
Eyes on Wise 3.26.20
An Invitation to Study Together: The Ten Commandments Mondays 10:15–10:55 a.m. with Rabbi David Woznica They are the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, March 26, 2020
In what feels remarkably prescient, the Babylonian Talmud quotes a more ancient text, known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira. Teaching about fear [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Min hametzar karati Yah; anani bamerchav Yah. From the narrow places I called upon God, God answered me from God’s expansiveness. (Psalm 118:5) [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, March 24, 2020
“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to [...]
Eyes on Wise 3.19.20
. The proverb, “Every cloud has a silver lining,” is taken from a poem written by John Milton in 1634. [...]