Lessons for Life from the Heart of Hashpa’ah – Rabbi Greg Wolfe If you have ever tried it, you will know that it’s a lot harder than you would think. After all, we breathe all the time. (And some of us have been breathing for a lot longer than others!) It seems so easy, but […]
Be the Blessing
Student Rabbi Ahuva Zaches
The Mort, Max! I Speak for the Jews… At the far end of town where gefilte fish hum And the shpielers go shpieling juiced up on sweet rum There was a young boy, Maxeleh Max was his name Who, after this tale, was just never the same. For you see he learned lessons that […]
The Story of Our Lives, The Torah of Our Lives Whenever the Jews were threatened with disaster, the Baal Shem Tov would go to a certain place in the forest, light a fire, and say a special prayer. Always a miracle would occur, and the disaster would be averted. In the later times when disaster […]
The Torah: Passport to Our Future The “Day of Remembering”–Yom HaZikaron–one of the names of Rosh HaShanah, feels particularly apt this year as we approach our 50th anniversary as a congregation this November. This is a momentous occasion for us to travel back in time, recalling and celebrating our achievements. We have certainly come a long […]
The Blessings of Partnership: Creating a Kehillah Kedoshah Together Rosh Hashanah Sermon 5770 My fervent prayer for the New Year might seem a bit strange to you when you first hear it, but please know that it comes straight from my heart, and I hope you will receive it in the spirit in which it […]
Shining a New Light on Passover Beginning early Wednesday morning, April 8th, when the first rays of sunlight peak out from behind the hills, as most of us are still dreaming of the grand spring festival of freedom–Passover–that begins that night, Jews around the world will also observe an occurrence in nature that happens only […]
An only recently discovered (and perhaps written) ancient text revealing the true Jewish roots of Dr. Seuss has just been made available to a very select few. And just in time for the Purim festivities this month…
Just about this time every year we begin to greet each other with those traditional words: L’shana tova tikatevu! May you be written for a good year! Even if these words seem as comfortable, and comforting, to you as your bubbie’s chicken soup, you probably don’t stop to think about their implication very often. In […]
Once there was a little bird who lived deep in the forest who was completely without feathers. Bald as a ping-pong ball. Not a single piece of plumage adorned his body. The chief of all the birds of the forest felt sorry for this little bird and approached him one day saying, “Why should you […]
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