Reverse Omer for 2025
Spiritual preparation for the Jewish High Holidays is difficult. First, you have to figure out when they are, because it …
Category Archives: High Holidays
We Are Stardust: In Memoriam
In the Torah portion we read this weekend, Moses wanted to give a simplified, overarching perspective on the many commandments …
The Jews’ Message
I don’t have to look at a calendar to know that it’s seven weeks to Rosh Hashanah. I know this …
Holidays and Holy Days
Rabbi Elliot Dorff makes an important distinction between holidays and holy days. Holidays are meant for fun, celebration, relaxation, travel. …
Joy is the Redemption of Solitude
I bought a used crockpot some 15 years ago at a flea market for $4.00. It still works but it’s …
Open the Door to Transcendence
Today is Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of Return, immediately before Yom Kippur. But what does it mean for a person …
The Day of Atoning
To my friends and readers who are not Jewish: Today’s post is a call from my heart to both myself …
The Truth About the Torah? It’s Complicated
Laws, laws, laws. The Torah is stuffed with them. Some make perfect sense and help us to be better people, …
“You Shall Not Judge Unfairly”
“You shall not judge unfairly… Justice, justice you shall pursue.” If I was asked to sum up the Torah in ten …
A Time to Mourn… and a Time to Rise Up From Mourning
There is an old joke that the Jewish fall holidays are always early or late, never on time. Sometimes they …
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