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Yamim Nora'im
This article is excerpted from The Guide to Jewish Practice, Volume 2, in a chapter written by Rabbi Yael Ridberg. The full Guide may be ordered from the Reconstructionist Press.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/yamim-noraim
Posted on: 2016/08/02 - 2:41pm
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Sin and Forgiveness
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This article is excerpted from The Guide to Jewish Practice, Volume 2 — the section in question was written by Rabbi Yael Ridberg. The full Guide may be ordered from the Reconstructionist Press.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/sin-and-forgiveness
Posted on: 2016/08/08 - 4:50pm
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Elul Prep
This article is excerpted from The Guide to Jewish Practice, Volume 2, in a chapter written by Rabbi Yael Ridberg. The full Guide may be ordered from the Reconstructionist Press.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/preparations-during-month-elul
Posted on: 2016/08/09 - 4:40pm
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Nancy F-K Tazria Metzora Dvar Torah
Last week there appeared in my mailbox at RRC, a book that I had never heard of by someone who was also unknown to me. The book is called The Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology. The author, Mitchell Silver, is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, and a devout secular Jew. His book was occasioned by a growing realization that all of his good philosophical arguments against religion were really arguments against traditional theism, the “old God” as he calls Him. And I use the word “Him” advisedly here.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/why-do-we-pray-dvar-torah-tazriametzora
Posted on: 2016/08/22 - 2:31am
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Recon Torah Feb 2016
The RRC Board met earlier this month, and to open the session, Camp JRF director Rabbi Isaac Saposnik gave a d’var torah. He noted that this week’s Torah portion includes the first of four instructions to “tell your children” about the Exodus. Rabbi Isaac asked us to think about the key Jewish stories that we tell our children again and again. This got me thinking about the stories many of us were telling, or at least talking about, over winter break. For many of us, there was the EPIC battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness of the Star Wars saga.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/numinous-power-and-storytelling
Posted on: 2016/02/03 - 12:00am
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God in Metaphor
For many people, attending High Holydays services is a bit like going to a play where you really don't like the main character—where, much of the time, you doubt the very existence of the main character! If the “main character” in our traditional High Holydays liturgy is God, this can be quite a problem for anyone seeking a meaningful spiritual experience.https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/god-metaphor-guide-perplexed
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 3:25pm
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Where is God in This?
“I’ve hit a wall,” a spiritual direction client recently said to me. “I want to discern God’s presence more frequently.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/where-god
Posted on: 2014/07/22 - 12:00am
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Is God to Blame When Bad Things Happen? JJS
Often enough, I run into people who report that their faith in God was shattered when something terrible happened. If there is a God, they ask, how could He let such things happen?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/god-blame-when-bad-things-happen
Posted on: 2014/09/01 - 12:00am
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Asking for Help - JJS
It can be extremely difficult to ask for help.
Contemporary Western secular culture prizes autonomy and self-reliance. From a very early age, we are taught that it is better to be independent than dependent, so that corporations have to train their employees to work cooperatively and interdependently.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/asking-help
Posted on: 2014/01/29 - 12:00am
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Nurturing a Belief in God (Educators' resource)
This guide explores how to discuss God with children; it relates theological concepts to the natural world, human relationships and other parts of a child's world. It was first published in Creative Jewish Education (editors Rabbis Jeffrey Schein and Jacob Staub); it was later reprinted in The Reconstructionist (1986).
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/nurturing-belief-god
Posted on: 1986/06/01 - 12:00am