On Shabbat HaGadol we read a line from Malachi in which we envision the heart of parents turning to the children, and the hearts of children to their parents. How do we create meaningful inter-generationality in our own communities and lives? How do continuity and change dance together?
Read moreThe Philadelphia Story
I had not been excited about going to the Reconstructionist convention. In this divisive climate I have felt rather isolated among rabbis, I didn’t know what it would be like to be in a rabbinical scene. Spoiler: it was good.
Read moreThe Anxiety of Purim
All these feelings – the fears, the desire for things to be quiet, for Jews to be quiet, this whole tangle of ancestral anxiety inside of me – it all comes into view at Purim time when we read the Book of Esther. This ancient book of ours is a symphony of anxiety.
Read moreThe Unfolding Now
This is what I want for all of us — Jews and everyone else living in this time — to survive the terrible and to keep flourishing through it.
Read moreBeing a Tree
So much is demanded of us now but I, for one, have been feeling inert, immobile. Tu Bishvat reminds us to have patience – the sap will again rise.
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