by Rabbi | Oct 23, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Our portion opens with two famous words. Lekh lekha. There is a strange doubling which we feel in the words themselves, the word “go” gets an unlikely companion, “for yourself”. Many of our teachers have heard this lekha as “go to yourself”: a...
by Rabbi | Oct 16, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Shabbat shalom. Our portion contains a story most of us learned as children, and we learned it as a story about punishment: the story of the Tower of Bavel. The whole world spoke one language. The people got proud, they built a tower up to heaven, and God, annoyed,...
by Rabbi | Oct 9, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Shabbat shalom. So we begin again. As Phil likes to say – it’s déjà vu all over again. Bereshit. At the beginning. And before the first chapter is even over, God says something God did not say about anything else, not light, nor sea, nor stars. Na’aseh adam. Let...
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...
