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Putting Aside Fear for Courage - DT Shelakh SCR
The signs of a spiritual renaissance are all around us. Candidates are increasingly running for public office while openly touting their religious pedigrees as “believers” and even “born again” men and women. The shelves in bookstores throughout the country are filled with the latest books on finding your spiritual path, discovering the meaning of life, embracing the light of spirituality and often understanding the most esoteric ancient mystical teachings in three easy lessons.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/putting-aside-fear-courage
Posted on: 2017/06/09 - 10:47am
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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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Hukat DT Arlene Berger
In Genesis 50:10-11, Joseph observed a seven-day mourning period for his father Jacob, mourning bitterly and loudly. When the Caaanites witnessed this, they observed that the people were holding “a solemn ceremony of mourning.” From this we derive the practice of shiva where we observe a specific period of mourning for those close to us. After the mourning period was over, Joseph and the mourners returned to Egypt to resume their daily lives.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/reacting-loss
Posted on: 2017/06/23 - 5:00pm
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How Good It Is - DT Balak Kligler
Mah tovu ohalecha Ya’akov, mishkenotecha Yisrael / מַה טֹּבוּ אֹהָלֶיךָ יַעֲקֹב מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶיךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל
How goodly are your tents, Jacob, your dwelling places, Israel (Numbers 24:5)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/how-good-it
Posted on: 2017/06/30 - 12:50pm
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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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Matot-Mas'ey: The Inner Journey DT Kligler
Eileh mas’ei v’nei Yisrael asher yatz’u me’eretz Mitzrayim
אֵ֜לֶּה מַסְעֵ֣י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָצְא֛וּ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם לְצִבְאֹתָ֑ם בְּיַד־מֹשֶׁ֖ה וְאַהֲרֹֽן׃
These are the journeys of the Children of Israel after leaving the Land of Egypt
(Numbers 33:1)https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/inner-journey
Posted on: 2017/07/14 - 1:47pm
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Making the Epic Personal DT Mas'ey Eron
The Torah portion Mas’ey (Numbers 33:1 – 36:13), which concludes Sefer Bamidbar (the Book of Numbers), brings us to the end of our ancestors’ journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. Forty years have passed since the Exodus. A new generation, born in freedom, has replaced the last generation to experience slavery. This generation has proven itself in battle. It is proud, self-assured, and ready to engage in the struggle to win and hold a new land. It will not be held back by the fears that constrained its parents.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/making-epic-personal
Posted on: 2017/07/14 - 2:08pm
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The Importance of Re-reading Torah - DT Hirsh
This d’var Torah was written in 2010. Although it refers to some events occuring at that time, its larger message remains deeply relevant. -Ed.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/importance-re-reading-torah
Posted on: 2017/07/14 - 2:20pm
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Shabbat Hazon dt Richard Hirsh
This week’s Torah portion is Devarim, the opening section of the last book of the Torah known in English as Deuteronomy. This Shabbat, however, is known as Shabbat Hazon, after the opening words of the special Haftara reading: “Hazon Y’Shayahu”, “[This is] the vision of [the prophet] Isaiah”.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/shabbat-hazon
Posted on: 2017/07/20 - 10:39am
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Pinkhas DT David Steinberg
Since I’m the only rabbi in the Duluth area, I regularly get called on by the local hospitals to visit patients who indicate on their admission forms that they are Jewish. Sometimes I’m visiting members of my own congregation. Sometimes I’m visiting unaffiliated Jews who might live in the area, or who might be simply passing through. Recently I had the occasion of visiting someone who was very elderly and immediately thereafter visiting a mother of a newborn baby.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/next-generation
Posted on: 2017/07/20 - 10:51am
