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Singing of the Oppressed - DT Beshallakh
This week's parashah includes one of the most familiar images in the Torah, that of the crossing of the Sea of Reeds (or Red Sea, depending on one's translation). Most years, this story falls on or near the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For the exodus from Egypt and the crossing of the sea are two of the central images to African-Americans as a representation of their quest for freedom from the days of slavery through the civil rights movement.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/singing-oppressed
Posted on: 2017/02/03 - 1:20pm
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Dress of the High Priest DT Tetzaveh
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/dress-high-priest
Posted on: 2017/01/31 - 4:10pm
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The Ten Commentments DT Va'et'khanan
The Torah reading of Va'et'khanan continues the retrospective view of the 40 years in the desert, given by Moses and ending in a list of “commandments, statutes and ordinances.” This is rich material—not only the ten commandments, but also the Shema, the credo statement of Judaism; we even find the passage for “the wise son” in the Haggadah.
Let us focus on the ten commandments, quite enough to fill today's ticket.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/ten-commandments
Posted on: 2017/01/31 - 3:56pm
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Miketz - Dreams
“All dreams follow the interpreter.” Talmud, Berakhot 55b
Everyone has dreams. Some of us dream of heights we intend to scale, battles we intend to win, glories we intend to capture. Some of us dream of love, or riches, or fame, or the quenching of our deepest desires. Some dreams are vast, and deep, and dramatic, and others are simple, and quiet, and modest. But regardless of their size or nature, we all have had dreams that inspired our actions and gave a sense of urgency to our lives.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/stuff-dreams-are-made
Posted on: 2016/12/22 - 11:55am
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Liturgy and Prayer PEARL session 2010
When we worship in public we know our life is part of a larger life, a wave of an ocean of being- the first-hand experience of that larger life which is God.”
—Mordecai Kaplan
Posted on: 2017/01/30 - 4:22pm
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Bronstein teaching call - Hasidic lens on Parashat Bo
Today I want to share with you some of what I think are the most astounding, and provocative, and informative Jewish messages that we have available to us as Reconstructionists, as Jews in general today. But they come from a place that you might never think to look: the 18th-century and 19th-century Hasidic commentaries on the Torah.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/hasidic-lens-parashat-bo
Posted on: 2016/12/01 - 5:11pm
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The Reconstructionist Revolution (PEARL call, Jane Litman)
In this hour-long conference call, Rabbi Jane Litman presents an overview of the revolutionary ideas that underlie the first century of Reconstructionist Judaism.
Selected quotes follow. The entire call transcript is available at the bottom of this page.
Posted on: 2016/11/30 - 6:51pm
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Raising Future Decision Makers - SCR community learning
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized expert in the field of moral education and has written extensively on that topic. In this recording of a community teaching call, he discusses raising ethical children of character and share ten keys to leading your children to ethical choices in everyday life:
CHILDREN OF CHARACTER: Leading Your Children to Ethical Choices in Everyday Life
Posted on: 2016/07/01 - 12:25pm
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Nancy F-K Tazria Metzora Dvar Torah
Last week there appeared in my mailbox at RRC, a book that I had never heard of by someone who was also unknown to me. The book is called The Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology. The author, Mitchell Silver, is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, and a devout secular Jew. His book was occasioned by a growing realization that all of his good philosophical arguments against religion were really arguments against traditional theism, the “old God” as he calls Him. And I use the word “Him” advisedly here.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/why-do-we-pray-dvar-torah-tazriametzora
Posted on: 2016/08/22 - 2:31am
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The Akeida: Questions of Sacrifice
Each year, on the second day of Rosh Hashana we discuss the Akeida - the story for the binding and near sacrifice of Isaac. Each year we, collectively, struggle with the psychological impact and the personal ethics of the story. How could a father do such a thing? What did Isaac feel? What did Abraham feel? What did Sarah feel? What did God feel? What did the ram feel? We discuss these issues as if synagogue were a family therapy workshop. We take up the story as if it were a vignette in a modern novel, and that its point is to give us insight into the human psyche.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/akeida-questions-sacrifice
Posted on: 2017/02/10 - 3:43pm
