Next week I’m traveling to Omaha to visit family. I phoned my sister yesterday to make plans for our time together. She asked how I was doing and I told her that it had been [...]

According to tradition, the Torah was given in love. Today on Shavuot we celebrate that gift—a tradition of learning, questioning, wisdom, and inquiry bequeathed to us through 3,000 years of wandering, hoping, and striving together [...]

The mystics of our tradition saw great meaning in the counting of the Omer. In its cycle of 7 days, counted 7 times, they saw a parallel to the sefirot, Divine attributes of Jewish mystical [...]

The mystics of our tradition saw great meaning in the counting of the Omer. In its cycle of 7 days, counted 7 times, they saw a parallel to the sefirot, Divine attributes of Jewish mystical [...]

The mystics of our tradition saw great meaning in the counting of the Omer. In its cycle of 7 days, counted 7 times, they saw a parallel to the sefirot, Divine attributes of Jewish mystical [...]

The mystics of our tradition saw great meaning in the counting of the Omer. In its cycle of 7 days, counted 7 times, they saw a parallel to the sefirot, Divine attributes of Jewish mystical [...]

Today is the 22nd day of the Omer. There is a kabbalistic (Jewish mystical) tradition that assigns a particular value to each week of the seven week cycle of counting from Passover to Shavuot. This [...]

Hungry Hearts by Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback Let all who are hungry come and eat. Let all who are in need come and celebrate Passover. .כָּל דִכְפִין יֵיתֵי וְיֵיכֹל, כָּל דִצְרִיךְ יֵיתֵי וְיִפְסַח The telling of [...]

"Six days you shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is a sabbath of the ETERNAL your God: you shall not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or [...]

I love live music and especially enjoy the feeling you get when you share that experience with a friend. Saturday, January 25, 2020, was the last time I was able to enjoy such a moment—and [...]