by Rabbi | Sep 23, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Gmar chatimah tovah. Kol Nidrei is here. This is the time when Jews all over the world, with all levels of observance, feel the pull back to our spiritual homes. Why? Yom Kippur is unabashedly transformative. Rabbi DovBer Pinson says that the power of this day calls...
by Rabbi | Sep 23, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
In a few moments we will rise for Yizkor, and each of us will hold someone. Maybe a face, maybe a voice. Maybe many faces and many voices. People whose absence is the reason this hour feels the way it feels. And I want to share a metaphor that has helped me stand in...
by Rabbi | Sep 23, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Gmar chatima tovah. I want to begin with a confession that has little to do with the ones we’ve been making all day. It is a confession about love. When we are young, we believe in the perfect other: somewhere out there, we are sure, the person who will complete us...
by Rabbi | Sep 20, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
This parsha is one of the few where the triennial cycle and the annual cycle are the same. The greater part of the Torah reading of Haazinu (“Listen In”) consists of a 70-line “song” delivered by Moses to the people of Israel on the last day of...
by Rabbi | Sep 13, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog, Uncategorized
Shanah tovah. Thanks for being around to hear my words, and thanks to Adath Israel for the privilege of speaking this Rosh Hashanah. We are almost the end of the service, and almost at the end of Rosh Hashanah as we know it. We will do tashlich afterwards, because...
