Daily Kavanah – Friday, March 27, 2020
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 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, March 26, 2020
In what feels remarkably prescient, the Babylonian Talmud quotes a more ancient text, known as the Wisdom of Ben Sira. Teaching about fear [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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) [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, March 24, 2020
“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, March 23, 2020
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, [...]
Finding God on the 405
by Rabbi Sari Laufer In memory of Rabbi Richard Levy z"l (1937-2019) In rabbinic school, I took a class called Spiritual [...]
The Call to Holiness
by Rabbi Sari Laufer Every aspect of the shooting in Poway is tragic and horrifying, but since it happened, I cannot stop thinking [...]
Wise Women Make Meaning and Prepare for Passover
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 [...]
The Case of the Hidden Chametz
by Rabbi Sari Laufer As a fan of Nancy Drew, I always thought that if I were to write a Jewish version, I [...]
The Voices of Israel
by Rabbi Sari Laufer Once, I was hit by an egg. It was hard-boiled, it was thrown at me, it hit me in [...]