Rabbi’s Blog | Adath Israel

Kol Nidrei – thoughts

Main idea: the greatest thing in the world is to do someone else a little favor / the power of words Welcome everyone to our Kol Nidrei Services. I want to thank everyone who has been instrumental on giving us this possibility. Even though we are socially distanced...

Rosh Hashanah 5781 ~ Day 2 ~ Thoughts

Main idea: our tradition has a framework about idolatry that can be helpful for us to understand how to deal with the question of Confederate statues in America – arrogance and anger RH is the day when we talk about sins. One of the greatest sins in Torah is...

Rosh Hashanah 5781 ~ Evening 2 ~ Thoughts

Main idea: lessons from zochreinu lechayim, remember us for life, the basic add-on for the ten days of teshuvah, repentance     Shanah tovah! Welcome to our second night of Rosh Hashanah, led by Cantor Axelrod. I want to thank her for being with us, and for...

Rosh Hashanah 5781 ~ day 1 ~ Thoughts

  Main Idea: What we need for our salvation is right in front of our eyes, we need to act and adapt, that’s how we survived many other plagues.     Our services were vastly different this year, I know, from whatever you experienced last year. I...

Rosh Hashanah 5781~ Evening 1 ~ Thoughts

First Evening Main idea: growth and meaning, together, in our 500-page journey depends on each of us embracing intentionality in our practice     Welcome everyone to our first virtual RH evening service. Adath Israel has worked very hard to make this...