Daily Kavanah – Thursday, June 23, 2022
ON SUNS, MOONS, RAINBOWS, AND TWILIGHT. Each day as evening falls, our tradition calls upon us to offer a blessing, a prayer of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, June 22, 2022
If yesterday, the Summer Solstice, is all about the sun, then this upcoming Shabbat is a reminder that—for the most part—our Jewish calendar [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Ein mazal l’Yisrael, our Talmud teaches—there is no constellation for Israel. Firmly rooted within Zoroastrian culture and its connection to astrology, the rabbis [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, June 20, 2022
Martin Buber, one of the great theologians of the early 20th century, offers this teaching in the name of Rabbi Menachem Mendl of [...]
Wise debuts discussion series: How do we talk about Israel?
On June 1, Stephen Wise Temple welcomed Professor Dov Waxman and Professor Masua Sagiv for the first of our three-part series, "How Do We Talk About [...]
Stephen Wise Temple’s 70 Faces of Torah celebrates women rabbis
Our 70 Faces of Torah Shabbat Evening services on Friday were a celebration of women rabbis. In honor of the 50th anniversary of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, June 2, 2022
With Shavuot beginning on Saturday night, June 4, this is the final week of the counting of the Omer. Today is the 47th day of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, June 1, 2022
With Shavuot beginning on Saturday night, June 4, this is the final week of the counting of the Omer. Today is the 46th day of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, May 31, 2022
With Shavuot beginning on Saturday night, June 4, this is the final week of the counting of the Omer. Today is the 45th day of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, May 30, 2022
With Shavuot beginning on Saturday night, June 4, this is the final week of the counting of the Omer. Today is the 44th day of [...]