Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Today is National S’mores Day, set to recognize America’s most popular campfire treat, first made famous in the 1927 edition of the [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, first established in 1994 by the United Nations to celebrate more than 400 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, August 8, 2022
As our minds and bodies recover from the fast of the Ninth of Av, our tradition turns its gaze toward the future. Beginning [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, August 5, 2022
Last week, Jacqueline and I met our friends Marc and Orley—the wonderful couple who had been our daughter's host family in Tel [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, August 4, 2022
The Jerusalem Talmud—the lesser known of our two Talmuds—records the following story: One day, a Jew was plowing in the valley of [...]
Daily Kavanah – Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Tisha B’Av is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar, specifically focused on the destruction of the First (586 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Tisha B'Av is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar, specifically focused on the destruction of the First (586 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Monday, August 1, 2022
Tisha B'Av is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar, specifically focused on the destruction of the First (586 [...]
Daily Kavanah – Friday, July 29, 2022
My last visit to Israel was in July of 2019. I am fortunate that in my adult life, this represents the longest [...]
Daily Kavanah – Thursday, July 28, 2022
It had been seven years since I was last in Israel. So, when the opportunity presented itself for a short visit this [...]