Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, October 2, 2024
As we prepare to enter the New Year tonight, we enter with renewed prayers of peace and safety for our friends and family [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, October 1, 2024
With the New Year beginning this week, we’ll take a deeper look at one of its most distinctive symbols and sounds: the shofar. [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, September 30, 2024
For our Biblical ancestors, the sounding of the shofar was the central mitzvah—obligation—of what came to be known as Rosh Hashanah. Apples and honey, God [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 27, 2024
Tomorrow evening, we observe Selichot, our official kick-off to the High Holy Day season.Here’s a story I first learned from my colleague, Rabbi [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, September 26, 2024
This week in our fall Introduction to Judaism course, we dove into the Hebrew Calendar and the way it has developed over time. We looked [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, September 25, 2024
As a lover of Jewish time, I always make a point to keep an eye on the moon as its light fluctuates [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, September 24, 2024
This week, we read the double Torah portion, Nitzavim-Vayeilech. Nitzavim in particular is jam-packed with “good stuff”, including a pretty intense pep talk from Moses to [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, September 23, 2024
Ani L’dodi V’dodi Li The rabbis teach that the word Elul, the name of this month, is an acronym for the well-known phrase [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 20, 2024
In late October 2023, I traveled to Israel. I felt compelled to go. I needed to see my family and friends. I needed [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, September 19, 2024
Repairing the World We have endured a deeply troubling year. Beginning with the horrific incursion into Israel’s heart that struck at the fiber [...]