Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 21, 2022
I’m watching “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” a three-part, six-hour documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein. It’s powerful and [...]
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback and Rabbi Josh Knobel
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Stephen [...]
True Joy
True Joy Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback Rabbi Yoshi reaches back 30 years ago to a Simchat Torah gathering in the Jerusalem neighborhood of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 14, 2022
The holiday of Sukkot is known in our tradition as "Z'man Simchateinu—the Season of Our Joy." There are many reasons to rejoice at [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, October 7, 2022
This Shabbat is a breath between the heaviness of the Day of Atonement—with its focus on the difficult work of teshuvah (repentance) and s’licha (forgiveness)—and Sukkot, [...]
Search for Meaning: “Letting Go – To Grow,” Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback’s Yom Kippur 2022 Sermon
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback delivers his [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, October 4, 2022
It is said that the Gates of Repentance, the Sha'arei Teshuvah, open during the High Holy Days. Maimonides, the famed medieval philosopher, taught extensively [...]
Search for Meaning: “Circles of Concern,” Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback’s Rosh Hashanah 2022 Sermon
In the latest edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback delivers [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, September 30, 2022
One of the most widely practiced traditions of our Day of Atonement is going without food or drink from sundown of Erev [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, September 23, 2022
Rabbi Yitzchok of Nadvorna was once sitting and chatting with a member of his community just a few days before Rosh Hashanah. [...]