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DT Beshalakh Joel Hecker - Staff and Zohar
“Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and split it apart, that the Israelites may come into the midst of the sea on dry land” (Exodus 14:16).
What is the nature of this staff? Is it a walking stick? Sign of God’s power? Or magical device?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/evil-and-compassion-two-sides-one-staff
Posted on: 2017/02/14 - 11:55am
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Silence as Protest (AKA The World of Silence) - Pinkhas DT Howard Cohen
Silence in the world of verbal communication can be as complicated to interpret and as deliberate as any word choice. We are often as careful (or should be) about when we choose to remain silent as we are about the words we use to convey a message. In the world of printed words, silence is every bit as powerful as in the audio world. However, it is much more difficult to indicate.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/silence-protest
Posted on: 2017/06/30 - 1:29pm
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Who Was Korakh DT Lewis Eron
During the forty years in the wilderness, Moses faced a number of challenges to his leadership. Some arose out of our ancestors’ sense of loss and deprivation. Others centered on issues of policy. The most threatening of these challenges, however, was the constitutional crisis brought about by Korakh’s attempt to supplant both Moses as political leader and Aaron as High Priest.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/who-was-korakh
Posted on: 2017/06/14 - 8:22pm
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DT Vaykhi Lewis Eron - The Goal of Life
(Want to learn more about Jewish views on purpose and meaning? Visit Reconstructionism - Believing.)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/goal-life
Posted on: 2017/01/30 - 1:18pm
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The destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah - DT Vayera
(Want to learn more about Jewish views on morality? Visit Ethics and Values.)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/destruction-cities-sodom-and-gomorrah
Posted on: 2017/01/31 - 3:43pm
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Turning Memory Into Empathy: The Torah's Ethical Charge
One of the Torah’s central projects is to turn memory into empathy and moral responsibility. Appealing to our experience of defenselessness in Egypt, the Torah seeks to transform us into people who see those who are vulnerable and exposed rather than looking past them.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/turning-memory-empathy-torahs-ethical-charge
Posted on: 2017/08/16 - 4:05pm
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DT Naso Toba Spitzer
(Originally published in Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible)
A number of years ago, Pride Weekend in Boston fell on the Shabbat of Parshat Naso. Preparing my d’var Torah for Shabbat morning services that week, I wondered, what might this portion have to teach about GLBT pride?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/impurity-blessing
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 1:34pm
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Honest Weights and Measures DT Eron
Once, during the holy season of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Hasidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev, paused in his devotions and looking at his disciples with sad, tear-laden eyes, remarked, “What a funny world it is that we live in these days. There was a time, you know, when Jews would be scrupulously honest in the market place and be the most outrageous liars in the synagogue. These days, however, everything is reversed. The Jews are surprisingly honest in synagogue, but in the streets and market places, I’m ashamed to tell you.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/honest-weights-and-measures
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 1:17pm
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Are We There Yet DT Behaalotcha Kligler
שוַיְהִ֤י הָעָם֙ כְּמִתְאֹ֣נְנִ֔ים רַ֖ע בְּאָזְנֵ֣י ה׳
Va’yehi ha’am k’mit’onenim ra b’oznei YHVH.
The people took to complaining bitterly before YHVH (Bamidbar 11:1)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/are-we-there-yet
Posted on: 2017/06/02 - 9:09am
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DT Bo 2017 - Steven Carr Reuben
“How do you know when you have really grown up?” I remember being asked that question one evening by one of my 10th grade Confirmation students, and how it produced one of the most thoughtful and reflective discussions we had that entire year.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/responsibility-and-hardened-heart
Posted on: 2017/01/27 - 12:22pm
