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, [...]
Search for Meaning with Isa Zweiback and Rabbi Yoshi
In the first of a series, Rabbi Yoshi searches for meaning with members of his own family. His first guest is his daughter Isa Zweiback, who shares a little bit about her recent experience becoming [...]