by Raffi Levi
Posted on November 22, 2022
What is Judaism’s take on the goal of spiritual living? Importantly, what is the essential realization we need in order to live with sacredness? In this week’s parsha, after Yitzchak struggles to survive a famine and risks his life by visiting the king Avimelekh, he comes home and decides… to plant!…
by Raffi Levi
Posted on November 17, 2022
How can we make our religious experience sustainable? In other words, how do we maintain a sense of connection with HaShem even when we are not doing a mitzvah? Often, our experience of Judaism can feel reserved. Whether it is reserved for the Shabbat table, for holidays, for the synagogue, or for prayer.…
by Raffi Levi
Posted on November 10, 2022
What can we do to easily create intentional motivation in our lives? I often find that when I have trouble beginning an important and challenging task, the simple transition of taking a deep breath helps make the whole process much easier.…
by Dvir Cahana
Posted on November 3, 2022
My grandmother, Alice Lok Cahana, Hinda Aliza bat Yehuda, was thrown into the gas chamber. Though she was crunched between 200 terrified people, at that moment she was completely and utterly alone. Staring death in the face, she contemplated her 15 years on earth.…
by Dvir Cahana
Posted on October 27, 2022
(The following is a constructed midrash of the final days on the ark) It was a brisk afternoon in late October. Noah looked out from his Teiva and noticed how the tips of the mountains had begun exposing their nibs through the ocean foam.…
by Dvir Cahana
Posted on October 20, 2022
In the opaque smoke of battered trust and unrelinquished uncertainty through the void of the pandemic, the upcoming 2022 midterm election serves as a momentary relief, suspending us outside of our worn pessimism. The ability to have a say in future outcomes seems like such a scarce resource these days and restores us with a sense of empowerment.…
by Dr. Julie Goldstein
Posted on September 28, 2022
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by Judy Klitsner
Posted on September 28, 2022
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by Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne
Posted on September 22, 2022
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by Dr. Yonatan Grossman
Posted on September 21, 2022
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by Rabbi Zvi Grumet
Posted on September 21, 2022
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by Rabbi Aharon Frazer
Posted on September 21, 2022
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