“I want to remind you again why we are all running.” Four months into our training for a 26.2 mile race, no reminder [...]

There’s some strange math at the beginning of this week's Torah portion. We learn that our matriarch Sarah dies at 127 years old. [...]

This past Monday marked the Hebrew yahrtzeit of the death of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. I remember precisely where I was when I heard that [...]

Word Games When I was a kid, I loved riddles. At summer camp, after lights out, we would play word games, trying to [...]

אֵ֚לֶּה תּוֹלְדֹ֣ת נֹ֔חַ נֹ֗חַ אִ֥ישׁ צַדִּ֛יק תָּמִ֥ים הָיָ֖ה בְּדֹֽרֹתָ֑יו אֶת־הָֽאֱלֹהִ֖ים הִֽתְהַלֶּךְ־נֹֽחַ׃ “This is the line of Noah: Noah was a righteous man (tzaddik); [...]

This Shabbat we begin the reading of our Torah again with Parashat B’reisheet, the very first portion of the five books. It includes two stories [...]

Sukkot is known as z’man simchateinu—the season of our joy. We rejoice spiritually and perhaps even existentially because we have made it to the [...]

We have shared so many words together over these past few weeks—prayers, songs, and sermons; “yashar koach”s, “g’mar chatimah tovah”s and comments with [...]

As we move through these Days of Awe, we hope that these readings and excerpts from Sha’ar HaShamayim, our Stephen Wise Temple machzor, will deepen [...]