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Serving God in Gladness DT Eron Ki Tavo
It’s hard to believe that in a few weeks we will be begin the fall holidays with the celebration of Rosh Ha-Shanah, the Jewish New Year. While we often think of this season as a time of solemn observance to be approached with awe and reverence, the High Holy Days are truly festive days, as well. On these holidays, we celebrate God’s presence in our lives and the opportunity that presence offers us to be better people.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/serving-god-gladness
Posted on: 2017/09/01 - 10:14am
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The Inner Witness DT Kligler Ki Tavo
Arur makeh re’ehu ba’sateir – v’amar kol ha’am “Amen”
אָר֕וּר מַכֵּ֥ה רֵעֵ֖הוּ בַּסָּ֑תֶר וְאָמַ֥ר כָּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃
Cursed be the one who strikes down their fellow in secret – and all the people shall say, “Amen.” (Deuteronomy 27:24)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/inner-witness
Posted on: 2017/09/01 - 10:20am
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Standing Together This Day DT Nitzavim/Vayelech
This week’s parasha is the double portion Nitzavim/Vayelekh. At the beginning of the parasha Moses tells the Jewish people, “You stand this day, all of you, before the Eternal your God…to enter into the covenant of the Eternal your God, which the Eternal your God is concluding with you this day…that God may establish you this day as God’s people and be your God.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/standing-together-day
Posted on: 2017/09/11 - 12:50pm
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You Should Live To Be 120
Every Shabbat morning during services at the Jewish Geriatric Home, our residents, our volunteers, our guests and I pause to offer thanksgiving for the joyous events in our lives. There is always a simcha or two for us to celebrate— a birthday or an anniversary, a grandchild’s engagement, a great grandchild’s Bris— always a happy occurrence.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/you-should-live-be-120
Posted on: 2017/09/11 - 2:15pm
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Standing Together in Covenant DT HC Nitzavim/Vayelech
This week’s double Torah portion opens with the words “You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God…” (Deuteronomy 29:9). A covenantal moment is too important to be trusted only into the hands of just the leaders, officials, priests—or board members and paid professionals. Everyone, from the chieftains to “the woodcutters and water carriers,” even “strangers” (non-Israelites dwelling among the Israelites) must be there to witness and affirm it. The wording suggests not an event that happened once, but an ongoing or reoccurring phenomenon.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/standing-together-covenant
Posted on: 2017/09/11 - 2:29pm
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Choose Life! DT Nitzavim Kligler
Ha’edoti va’chem ha’yom et ha’shamayim v’et ha’aretz: ha’chayim v’ha’mavet natati l’fanecha, ha’bracha v’ha’klala. u’vacharta ba’chayim, l’ma’an tichyeh atah v’zarecha.
הַעִידֹ֨תִי בָכֶ֣ם הַיּוֹם֮ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם וְאֶת־הָאָרֶץ֒ הַחַיִּ֤ים וְהַמָּ֙וֶת֙ נָתַ֣תִּי לְפָנֶ֔יךָ הַבְּרָכָ֖ה וְהַקְּלָלָ֑ה וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ בַּֽחַיִּ֔ים לְמַ֥עַן תִּחְיֶ֖ה אַתָּ֥ה וְזַרְעֶֽךָ׃
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/choose-life
Posted on: 2017/09/11 - 2:40pm
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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
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Haazinu When Will We Ever Learn DT Mira Wasserman
Originally published at the Jewish Exponent on September 20, 2017 as Haazinu: When Will We Ever Learn?
It has been almost five years since my father called to tell me he was eating a tuna sandwich for lunch.
Normally, such an event is unremarkable, certainly not worthy of a special call. But there was something special about that sandwich, and the circumstances under which it was eaten.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/when-will-we-ever-learn
Posted on: 2017/09/26 - 2:36pm
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DT Lekh Lekha Ellen Dannin
If ever there were a person for whom Psalm 145 — the Ashrei — was written, it is Avraham. Ashrei begins: “Happy are they who dwell in your house” and then continues through the Hebrew alphabet to list God’s attributes and blessings bestowed on us and our reasons for giving thanks.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/avraham-happiness-and-gods-open-hand
Posted on: 2017/10/20 - 12:11pm
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Be a Blessing - DT Lekh Lekha SPN
The parashah begins with God’s call to Avram (his name won’t be changed to Avraham until later) to “Go forth from your land, from your kindred, from your father’s house, to the land that I will let you see. I will make a great nation of you and will give you blessing and will make your name great. Be a blessing!”https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/be-blessing
Posted on: 2017/10/20 - 12:24pm
