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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
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Being Part of the Universe
Let us begin by remembering that the spiritual always points toward the unity of things, not their division. Judaism tries to help us to work from a higher perspective. To celebrate the creation of the world, as we do on Rosh Hashanah, is to see ourselves as an integral part of all that is and not to see ourselves as the measure of all things. The egotistical, self-centered part of our mind, “the evil urge” if you will, always leads us to experience our separateness from the natural world.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/being-part-universe
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 12:54pm
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Pinhas DT on egal
Towards the beginning of Parashat Pinhas, we read the story of the daughters of Zelophehad. After Moses instructs the people on the division of the Promised Land once they enter it he also informs them that the land will pass from father to son so that it will remain within the tribes. Upon hearing this the five daughters of Zelophehad confront Moses with the fact that their father died in the desert leaving behind only daughters. Given the new laws their land would be lost from their family.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/equal-god
Posted on: 2016/06/15 - 2:25pm
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Transitioning Leadership - Pinhas DT
One of the most difficult tasks faced by a community is the orderly transition of power from one leader to the next. Every nation, religious group, society, organization, and family inevitably faces the challenge of how to transfer allegiance and authority from the accepted leader to the appointed successor.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/transitioning-leadership
Posted on: 2016/06/15 - 2:31pm
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Balaam Recognizes the One God - Balak DT
This week's portion is called Balak, after the name of the Moabite monarch who sought to bring doom on the Israelites as they approached the end of their forty-year journey from Egypt to Israel.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/balaam-recognizes-one-god
Posted on: 2016/06/15 - 2:36pm
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On Being A Paradox Jew
Some three and a half months ago we read in Parashat Ki Tisa about the two tablets containing the Aseret HaDibrot (Ten Commandments) that were smashed by Moshe Rabbenu on the bare rock of Har Sinai. That incident still echoes with us as we look this week at Parshat Hukat and the Para Adumah - the Red Heifer.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/being-paradox-jew
Posted on: 2016/06/15 - 3:10pm
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Leadership - DT Korah
This week's parasha is Korah. It takes it's name from that of Moses' fellow from the tribe of Levi, Korah, who attempted to lead a rebellion against Moses. Korah led the rebellion because he believed that Moses and Aaron were claiming to be holier than the rest of the community. Korah believed that all of the people were holy and that they should share in the special relationship with God. In short, he wanted to be a priest as well.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/leadership
Posted on: 2016/06/15 - 3:32pm
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Who Has The Authority To Change Judaism?
In his well-known 1936 commentary on the Torah, popularly referred to as the “Hertz Humash”, Dr. J. H. Hertz refers to this week's Torah portion, “Korach”, as “The Great Mutiny”. Rabbi Gunther Plaut, writing in the Reform movement's recent commentary on the Torah, calls these chapters “The Rebellion of Korach, Dathan, and Abiram”. Dr. Jacob Milgrom, in the new commentary on the Book of Numbers published by the Jewish Publication Society, refers to this portion as the “Encroachment on the Tabernacle”.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/who-has-authority-change-judaism
Posted on: 2016/06/15 - 3:36pm
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Why Did Korah Rebel? Korah DT
The tale of Korah's rebellion at the beginning of this eponymous parsha is so compelling, that we are usually distracted from either delving farther in to its subsequent passages, or, more significantly, from questioning the rectitude of its outcome.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/why-did-korah-rebel
Posted on: 2016/06/15 - 3:39pm
