Learning To Lead
This week’s Torah portion, Beha’alotcha, has a lot to teach us about what it takes to be a communal leader. …
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Our Mission: To Lift Light
This week’s Torah portion is filled with events that have been discussed at length over the centuries. (You’ll find it …
Bestowing Blessings
I love the Birkat HaKohanim, the priestly blessing from the Torah. I love singing it in Hebrew and then in …
Dying for a Cause
There’ll be bluebirds over The white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see. There’ll be love and laughter, …
Pathways of Blessing
This week’s Torah portion is one of the most difficult to deal with. It’s so hard to take that when …
Loving God
There’s a couple with whom I interact, usually separately, and I know the wife much better than the husband. But …
A Time to Build and a Time to Refrain from Building
In our fast-paced world it’s rare to take a sabbatical. A week’s vacation here and there is more the norm. …
Transcending the Physical
An essential part of the human condition is that we are not and never can be perfect. I find this …
Reaching for the Stars
We humans are so full of ourselves. We give ourselves credit for everything that goes well. Even when we mess …
Scapegoats
I started writing tonight about scapegoats and anti-Semitism. Scapegoats because this week’s Torah portion tells of the goat that was …
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