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DT Tetzaveh Schein
What does the well-dressed Cohen Gadol (High Priest) look like? Quite resplendent, according to this week's Torah portion, Tetzaveh. Bearing on his chest the hoshen mishpat (breastplate of judgment) with twelve different minerals, each representing a different one of the tribes of Israel, the high priest is the living embodiment of the commandment of hidur mitzvah, beautifying the mitzvot that connect us to God.
Halachic Clarification
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/holding-high-jewish-office-do-clothes-make-man
Posted on: 2016/02/17 - 10:52am
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2015 Annual Report
RRC’s 2015 Annual Report, in video format.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/animated-annual-report
Posted on: 2016/02/17 - 2:32pm
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Grad 2015
RRC Graduation 2015
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/rrc-graduation-2015
Posted on: 2016/02/17 - 2:34pm
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Fighting for a Good Name
With few transgender role models, Rabbi Jacob Lieberman, ’15, faced harassment and bullying almost entirely alone growing up. As an adult, he found acceptance within the Reconstructionist community and from himself. In this d’var torah, Rabbi Lieberman shares how Jewish resources can help comfort those who struggle to find acceptance and wholeness.
Psalm 41 - Translation by Rabbi Jacob Lieberman + Hebrew
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/fighting-good-name
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 2:49pm
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Eleh Ezakara - Sacrifice and Martyrdom
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is never an easy day. Fasting, however, is not the real problem. Rather, the day's challenge comes from its demand that we confront deep spiritual, theological, and philosophical issues we would often wish to avoid. We are asked to consider, for example: the tension between sin and forgiveness, the relationship between suffering and redemption, and the emergence of hope out of tragedy. The prayers and readings of Yom Kippur demand that we meditate on these themes as personal challenges, but present them to us in grand images on a mythic scale.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/eleh-ezakara-sacrifice-and-martyrdom
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:10am
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Our Akeidah, Our Binding
There is a thread running through all the Rosh haShanah portions, except one: that thread is fathers and children, mothers and children.
The Akedah is the sole exception.
Where are the mothers today?
This is an impressionistic reading of the Akedah.
It does not explain the text.
This is not the comfortable reading that, in praising our ancestor Abraham, gains credit for ourselves.
This is not the reading that shows we are a people who have long put aside idolatry and child sacrifice.
I have no comfort today, only questions.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/our-akeidah-our-binding
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:13am
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Sukkot: Yom Kippur's Counterbalance
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/sukkot-yom-kippurs-counterbalance
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:22am
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The Modern Meaning of Tisha b'Av
The Jewish Memorial Day, The Fast of the Ninth of the Jewish month of Av, Tisha b'Av, marks the end of a three week period of mourning during which our people remember the series of events that led to the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of our people's first Temple on that date in the year 586 BCE.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/modern-meaning-tisha-bav
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:25am
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Future Prayer
Isaiah 57:14-58:14
Are these the words for the future prayer not yet in our mahzor, the one all the generations after us will recite?
We heard the prophet say: “Prepare, prepare the road - clear away the stumbling blocks.” But instead, we have built walls across the roads to keep out those we fear.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/future-prayer
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:36am
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Filling the Earth with God's Presence
Haftarah Yitro from last week includes words so important they were made part of the service: “Holy, holy, holy! All the earth is filled with the presence of the Lord of Hosts.”
Or it could be, if we made room for that presence.
Making room for God is a task set for us by all of Jewish teaching, and it is one whose details are included in Parashat Mishpatim.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/filling-earth-gods-presence
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:45am
