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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
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Go to Yourself: Abraham and the Spiritual Journey DT Kligler
And YHVH said to Abram, “Lekh Lekha (go forth, but literally go to yourself) from your land and from your birthplace and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1)
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם לֶךְ־לְךָ֛ מֵאַרְצְךָ֥ וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖ וּמִבֵּ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַרְאֶֽךָּ׃
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/go-yourself-abraham-and-spiritual-journey
Posted on: 2017/10/20 - 12:42pm
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Filling in the Missing Pieces of Sarah's Life
Should we be surprised that a parasha entitled Hayey Sarah, “the life of Sarah”, in fact opens with the death of Sarah, and encompasses nothing of her life story?
Torah is full of round-about tales and messages. Here is one that is perhaps more significant for being less straightforward. It is about Sarah, and yet not about one person, for it clearly connects to the origins of a people.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/filling-missing-pieces-sarahs-life
Posted on: 2017/11/03 - 12:33pm
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Abraham's Second Life DT Hayey Sarah
In the Stone Edition Chumash, the brief note on Genesis 25:1-11, which summarizes Abraham’s life after the death of his wife, Sarah, and the marriage of their son, Isaac, to Rebecca, reveals more about human life
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/abrahams-second-life
Posted on: 2017/11/03 - 12:41pm
