Daily Kavanah – Friday, April 17, 2020
According to urban legend, Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, [...]
According to urban legend, Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, [...]
Early on in this time of social distancing, or whatever we are currently calling it, someone sent me a video of a colleague [...]
We’ve been watching a lot of Frozen 2 at our house, thanks to Disney’s outstanding choice to release it early on their streaming platform. In [...]
In what feels remarkably prescient, the Babylonian Talmud quotes a more ancient text, known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira. Teaching about fear [...]
Min hametzar karati Yah; anani bamerchav Yah. From the narrow places I called upon God, God answered me from God’s expansiveness. (Psalm 118:5) [...]
“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to [...]
The world needs beautiful things. It is the mantra of my friend Rabbi Leah Berkowitz’s book, and it is a truth of the world—always, [...]
by Rabbi Sari Laufer In memory of Rabbi Richard Levy z"l (1937-2019) In rabbinic school, I took a class called Spiritual [...]
by Rabbi Sari Laufer Every aspect of the shooting in Poway is tragic and horrifying, but since it happened, I cannot stop thinking [...]
by Rabbi Sari Laufer Long ago, the rabbis of the Talmud dedicated Rosh Hodesh—the New Moon—to women. According to them, the holiday was [...]