Reveals and Refocuses For most of us who follow the Torah reading and holiday cycle, the serendipity of intersecting messages…
Two Minutes of Torah
Jacob settled, vayeishev, is a telling title for the name of our Torah portion this week. Jacob, now interchangeably known…
Excelsior! This week marked the passing of Stan Lee, the Patriarch of the Marvel Comics Empire. Like so many sons…
Torah provides us with a model for mourning this week. The parsha, called “The Life of Sarah” tells not only of…
I welcome you into this sacred space, this sanctuary for the soul, for this gathering of memory, faith and hope—as…
The Way of Welcome The treatment accorded newcomers and strangers was then and may always be considered a touchstone of…
“Go forth from your land, your birthplace, your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.” Could this…
“Noah was a righteous man; he walked with God,” we read at the start of this week’s Torah portion. How…
I grew up in the environmentally conscious San Francisco Bay Area where I was trained to do my part in…
And In the End… And in the end the love you take Is equal to the love you make Paul…