Daily Kavanah – Thursday, January 28, 2021
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 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, January 27, 2021
As Tu B’Shevat begins this evening at sundown, the image of trees seems an appropriate metaphor for our own lives. I find the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, January 26, 2021
This week, in honor of the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, we give our Sabbath the special name of Shabbat Shira: Sabbath [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, January 25, 2021
This week in the Jewish calendar and in the cycle of Torah readings we are gifted with much to think about and much [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, January 22, 2021
We began this week remembering the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who asserted that “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, January 21, 2021
Then the Eternal said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order [...]
Creating a more perfect union: a message for this Inauguration Day from Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback
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 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, January 20, 2021
In November of 1938, my grandparents left their own town of Essen, Germany and walked the streets of another village where no one [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, January 19, 2021
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, January 18, 2021
Mark Twain is attributed with saying: “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” As Jewish Americans struggle to understand and process the [...]