Omer Calendar and Pesach Piyut

March 31, 2026 Irwin Keller

*The piyyut begins below the line on the right page and continues below the line on the left page.*

An Omer Calendar for your 5786 use, and a gorgeous medieval Piyyut (and new musical setting) for Shabbat of Chol Hamoed Pesach.

Heart of the Generations (and a Song)

March 28, 2026 Irwin Keller

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?

The Philadelphia Story

March 21, 2026 Irwin Keller

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.

The Anxiety of Purim

February 28, 2026 Irwin Keller

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.

The Unfolding Now

February 20, 2026 Irwin Keller

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.