Elul Challenge Day 13: Tefilah/Reflect Count your blessings: List 10 kind things people have done for you this year. Much of the work of teshuvah, of [...]

Elul Challenge Day 12: Tefliah/Reflect Post or draw a picture of a time you felt strong. The second blessing of the Amidah, the central section [...]

Elul Challenge Day 11: Tefilah/Reflect Post or draw a picture of a place that makes you feel grateful. When the prophet Hosea talks about teshuvah, [...]

The three Shabbatot leading up to Tisha B’Av are known as the Three Weeks of Affliction, with the haftarot (prophetic readings) filled with messages of [...]

If you have never heard it chanted—hearing Eicha (the Book of Lamentations, read on Tisha B’Av) is a beautiful and deeply moving experience. [...]

Thinking about Tisha B’Av, which begins tonight, my colleague Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller wrote We can respond both personally and collectively. The personal asks [...]

In normal times, summer is the quiet season—school is out, we are travelling, relaxing, enjoy a slowed-down rhythm of long days and warm [...]

Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes — The rest [...]

Proclaim freedom for all the sons and daughters And will keep you as the apple of his eye Pleasant is your name and [...]

Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof. — Leviticus 25:10 In its original context, this verse—and the word for [...]