Daily Kavanah – Thursday, June 4, 2020
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.” Henry David Thoreau, “On Civil Disobedience,” 1849 Thoreau famously refused [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, June 3, 2020
“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Responding to Racial Injustice “Whoever destroys a single life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a [...]
Responding to Racial Injustice
“Whoever destroys a single life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a single life is considered [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, May 29, 2020
Rabbi Menachem Mendl of Kotsk teaches that we call Shavuot zman matan Torateinu—the time of the giving of the Torah, to center the giving [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, May 28, 2020
Vision looks inward and becomes duty, outward & becomes aspiration, upward and becomes faith. —Rabbi Stephen Wise Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav offers a similar teaching, offering [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Rabbi Shimon used to say: There are three crowns–the crown of the Torah, the crown of the priesthood, and the crown of kingship, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, May 25, 2020
The poet Yehuda Amichai writes: A hymn of remembrance for those who died in war. Even the remembering generation dwindles and dies, half [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, May 22, 2020
Our Elderly When Moses descends Mount Sinai carrying the Ten Commandments and observes the Israelites worshipping the Golden Calf, he throws down the [...]