What Makes an Experience Spiritual?
Is there a difference between experiencing God and simply getting high? Between experiencing the divine and feeling uplifted? When I …
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The Laws of Sukkot according to Dr. Seuss
You can build it very small You can build it very tall You can build it very large You can …
Spirituality AND Intellect
Just a quick comment about the necessity for both spirituality and intellect, and the point where they intersect — which …
Spirituality vs Intellect
In an e-mail conversation yesterday with a colleague about High Holiday services, he asked: “I trust you know what you …
Krayna’s Blessing
As you might imagine, I am up to my eyeballs in Yom Kippur prep, so by the end of a long …
Shana Tova
Due to my never-ending search for the sublime and the ridiculous (preferably together) I was delighted to run across an unfortunate …
More Unresolved Issues
Lately, I’ve spent a lot of time preparing to lead High Holiday services. My role is primarily to lead congregational …
Going Hungry in America
There I was, minding my own business, feet on my desk, eating lunch and scanning the news on my computer. …
Two Brothers In Jerusalem
A long time ago in Jerusalem there lived two brothers who were both farmers. They tended their crop on opposite …
Killing Innocents “Heroic”?!
Has the world gone utterly insane? How is it that four Israelis can be murdered — one a pregnant woman — …
