Search for Meaning with Rabbi Sari Laufer and Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, August 31, 2022
For a while, in exasperation after my teenage opposition, my father would say, "Just do it because I said so!" As parents, [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, August 30, 2022
It has been said, mostly by critics of Judaism, that the God of the Hebrew Bible is a vengeful God. Unfortunately, that anti-Jewish [...]
Rabbi Woznica’s Four Suggestions as we Enter a New Year
Rabbi Woznica’s Four Suggestions as we Enter a New Year Rabbi David Woznica Rabbi David Woznica speaks of new beginnings. With High [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, August 29, 2022
One of the most beautiful and steamy love poems appears in the Hebrew Bible. No doubt, some of you have words from [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 26, 2022
We’ve reached cruising altitude. I'm above the clouds, looking down on earth from 30,000 feet. My daughter is sitting beside me, her [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, August 25, 2022
Yesterday in 2006, the International Astronomical Union published its newest definition of a planet, stipulating that planets (1) orbit a star, (2) [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, August 24, 2022
As Rabbi Stern alluded to on Monday, our tradition understands that life—and the calendar—is filled with new beginnings; in fact, the rabbis of [...]
VIDEO: Wise welcomes Lapidus and Myles for Gospel Shabbat
On Friday, Aug. 19, Stephen Wise Temple welcomed musical duo Lapidus & Myles to the hilltop for a special Gospel Shabbat. The evening [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, August 23, 2022
The Very Beginning – And New Beginnings The first words of the Torah are, “In the beginning God created the heavens and [...]