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A Kiss Is Just A Kiss Global Day of Jewish Learning 2015

A Kiss is Just A Kiss? Mystical Union, Personal Salvation, and World Redemption through Kabbalistic Kissing

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/global-day-2015

Posted on: 2015/11/15 - 12:00am

High Holiday Message 5778 (2017)

At Rosh Hashanah, as we turn to new beginnings, we seek to repent—to do teshuvah—for what we have done wrong. And we can also affirmatively foster ourselves toward resilience—toward a thriving, loving outlook in spite of whatever challenges we encounter in life. In this video, I explore themes of resilience embedded into Jewish practice.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/high-holiday-message-5778

Posted on: 2017/09/19 - 12:11pm

Community Teaching 11-21-2017 - Maurice Harris

In this Community Learning call from November 21, 2017, Rabbi Maurice Harris talks about the strange way the Torah tells us about Moses’ up-close encounters with God, contradicting itself purposely within the space of nine verses. Two consecutive stories in the Book of Exodus confront us with a crucial paradox about how it is or isn’t possible to encounter the Divine, leaving us as readers with something like an “impossible” mental picture that we may be tempted to try to resolve or to hold as a fruitful paradox.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/moses-encounters-god

Posted on: 2017/12/11 - 2:31pm

Sandy Sasso: Art and Biblical Text

In this Community Teaching call from January 2017, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso teaches on artists and biblical text as seen through literature, visual art and music.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/art-and-biblical-text

Posted on: 2017/12/11 - 2:57pm