Daily Kavanah – Friday, June 5, 2020
"It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.” ".לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה" Pirkei Avot 2:16 Tonight we will be [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, June 4, 2020
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.” Henry David Thoreau, “On Civil Disobedience,” 1849 Thoreau famously refused to pay his taxes because he did not want to support a [...]
Responding to Racial Injustice
“Whoever destroys a single life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a single life is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.” (Mishna Sanhedrin 4:5) Los [...]
Search for Meaning with Dr. Dan Uslan and Rabbi Yoshi
Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback chats with Dr. Dan Uslan, UCLA Health's Co-Chief Infection Prevention Officer, covering many of your frequently asked questions about the current crisis and how we can support health workers in their life-saving [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, April 24, 2020
“To know God is to know what must be done.” Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) For Emmanuel Levinas, one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the 20th century, we demonstrate our knowledge and understanding of God [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, April 23, 2020
:בְּיָדו אַפְקִיד רוּחִי. בְּעֵת אִישָׁן וְאָעִירָה :וְעִם רוּחִי גְּוִיָּתִי. ה' לִי וְלא אִירָא “Into God’s hand, I safeguard my spirit/when I sleep and when I awake. With my spirit is my body; God is with [...]
Search for Meaning with Ariela Zweiback and Rabbi Yoshi
As part of an ongoing quarantine-inspired series, Rabbi Yoshi searches for meaning with members of his own family. This week's guest is his daughter Ariela Zweiback, who speaks with him about her recent time in [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, April 22, 2020
“To be a Jew is to be an agent of hope in a world serially threatened by despair. Every ritual, every mitzvah, every syllable of the Jewish story, every element of Jewish law, is a [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, April 21, 2020
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, April 20, 2020
“Everything can be taken from a [person] but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) Every day, [...]