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...
by Rabbi | Sep 13, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Shanah tovah. Tonight is the second night, and we say Shehecheyanu again, but this time we say it over something new. Look at what we chose. A fruit. Something with seeds in it. Inside each of those seeds is an instruction manual: its DNA, wound in a double helix, two...
by Rabbi | Sep 13, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Shanah tovah. Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you this new year. I’m grateful that you are all here. Years ago, a friend of mine was backpacking through Europe, and decided to go to Iceland. He stopped at a Chabad rabbi’s house in Reykjavik. The rabbi...
by Rabbi | Sep 13, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog, Uncategorized
Shanah Tovah. Tonight we stand on two thresholds at once. One is the threshold of a new year. In a few minutes we will say certain words from our tradition – let this year with its curses end, let this year with its blessings begin – and step across into 5787....
by Rabbi | Aug 28, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Ki Tavo – summary “Ki Tavo,” means “when you come”, and that means when you, as the collective Israel, come to the Land of Israel, the promised land. It opens with the declaration of the farmer bringing the first fruits to give to the kohanim in the...
by Rabbi | Aug 28, 2026 | Rabbi's Blog
Our portion is Ki Tetze – which means “when you go out”. The laws that follow are laws regarding what happens when you – the Jewish person – go out to war, and the limitations imposed by Torah to certain behaviors, specifically around beautiful women of the conquered....
