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1. Tamar the Hidden DT Vayeshev

   Maybe the Torah is really Tamar’s story. Seen from that perspective, Judah’s interlude with Tamar is not an annoying interruption placed between Joseph’s sale into slavery and Joseph’s encounter with Potiphar’s wife. Maybe we need to know Tamar better. After all Psalm 92 tells us, tzaddik k’tamar - the wise/just are like Tamar. They are planted in the house of God, where they fruit and send out seed in order to tell of God’s uprightness.

   So what does it mean to be like Tamar?

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/tamar-hidden

   Posted on: 2017/12/03 - 7:44pm

2. 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

3. 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

4. Moses' Double Mission - DT Va'era Eron

   This week’s Torah portion, Va’era, is set in Egypt. Moses has already returned from his exile in Midian. He has had his first and unsuccessful encounter with Pharaoh, who, in response to Moses’ request to allow the Israelites the opportunity to worship God in the wilderness, has placed additional burdens on the already overworked Israelite slaves. In addition to Pharaoh’s scorn, Moses’ own people abuse him for the troubles they believe he has brought upon them. Soon after it has begun, Moses’ mission already seems to have come to an end.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/moses-double-mission

   Posted on: 2018/01/05 - 11:07am

5. These Are The Names Shemot DT Micah B-K

   The Book of Exodus, Shemot in Hebrew, begins with the listing of names. A recounting of “who is who” as a new era opens. While Genesis/Bereshit begins the Jewish journey following one family, as we begin Exodus, the narrative begins to be about a people emerging into being. This week’s portion continues some 375 years after the end of the Genesis text.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/these-are-names

   Posted on: 2018/01/05 - 1:08pm

6. JRF Israel Task Force Report

   This 2004 report from the Jewish Reconstructionist Federationemerged from a movement-wide process that solicited thoughtful input from Reconstructionists across the country. A dedicated committee of rabbis and lay people developed the positions and proposals laid out in the report. While the Task Force’s proposals were never implemented, our revived Israel Task Force will be using the 2004 report as our foundation for moving forward. While much has changed since it was written., most of the earlier report’s framework and recommendations are still compelling and sound.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/jrf-israel-task-force-report-2004

   Posted on: 2004/09/15 - 12:00am

7. Blueprint for a Full Jewish Life - DT Terumah Schein

   Reprinted by permission of the Cleveland Jewish News.

   This d’var Torah is one of a series influenced by the Me’am Loez Sephardic Torah commentary.

   If we review briefly the last several parshiot of Exodus, we see an interesting pattern. We began with mythic moments of redemption from slavery and the revelation of the Torah in Bo, Beshalakh, and Yitro. Human beings cannot live without these moments, but living with them only is also impossible. 

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/blueprint-full-jewish-life

   Posted on: 2018/02/09 - 3:35pm

8. Blood - Aharei Mot DT Dannin

   References to blood appear at least sixty-five times in the Torah, and more, depending on how you do the counting and excluding references to menses. In this parashah, it appears primarily in connection with sacrifices (Lev.16:14-15, 16:18-19, 16:27, 17:3-6).

   But the more intriguing reference is in Lev. 17:10-14, where we are told:

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/blood

   Posted on: 2018/04/20 - 1:49pm

9. Guide to Jewish Practice - Educators' Manual

   This manual, written by Rabbi Nathan Weiner, will help you use all three volumes of A Guide to Jewish Practice to boost your adult and teen education programming in meaningful ways. It offers flexible formats that are simple to navigate and the pedagogical approach is rooted in values-based decision making.

   Potential uses include:

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/guide-jewish-practice-educators-manual

   Posted on: 2018/04/23 - 12:32pm

10. Love the Stranger As Yourself DT Kligler Kedoshim

    Originally published by T’ruah at http://www.truah.org/resources/kedoshim-love-the-stranger-as-yourself/

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/love-stranger-yourself

    Posted on: 2018/04/27 - 11:27am

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