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Over the next few years, we took cues from Gidi's parents, brothers, and grandparents, and learned, as a community, to hold it all at once. We would have to reckon both with the great void created by his absence from this world, and with the sheer wonder of the short life he lived-adored and adoring from the moment he was born. The very embodiment
... See moreA medieval sage, Rabbi Asher ben Yehiel (Rosh, 1250?–1327), insists that this mitzvah of receiving people warmly applies not just to one-on-one encounters but also to the way we carry ourselves in public. “Let not your face be angry toward passersby,” he says, “but receive them with a friendly countenance.”48 How we comport ourselves in the world m
... See moreShai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
After the churban (destruction), the Rabbis taught that there would be no further prophecy. God had self-limited again. But through Talmud Torah (study of Torah), God’s will could be discerned.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
In my vision of the future of American Jewish life, the real test of whether a minyan is welcoming is not whether you get offered an aliyah or whether someone hands you a siddur on your way in. It will be defined by the ease in which you are drawn into each other’s homes to share a meal together on Shabbat.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Already blessed with the world itself, we are blessed further with a path for making our way through it—and, tradition teaches, with a God who accompanies us along the way.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Our loving actions bring forth healing.
Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer
Gratitude becomes a way of being in the world.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
If I were going to tell the story of the Torah in a nutshell, it would be as follows: God chose a powerless people for a particular relationship, rescued them from slavery, and gave them a mission: To create a society that is the very opposite of Egypt, one based on the belief that we are all created in the Divine image—all infinitely worthy, funda
... See moreSarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
God is not about power but relationship; that religion is not about control but about freedom; that God is found less in nature than in human society, in the structures we make to honor His presence by honoring His image in other human beings. Biblical faith is about the dignity of the personal, and it can never be obsolete.