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Parshat Bo 2021: The Rituals of Democracy - Yael Ridberg
(Written for Shabbat Bo, January 22, 2021, and originally published at The Times of Israel as “The Rituals of American Democracy” Used with kind permission.)
Wednesday morning, I settled in to watch the inaugural events unfold. I was filled with anticipation and relief that the last four years were over, and a new era was about to begin. I was transfixed watching the guests arrive at the Capitol only two weeks after the temple of democracy was overrun by a seditious mob.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/rituals-democracy
Posted on: 2021/01/22 - 9:36am
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Zakhor text study - Amalek - Out There or In Here?
The Shabbat before the holiday of Purim is known as Shabbat Zakhor (“Remember!”). We read an additional Torah passage (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) recalling Amalek, a genocidal enemy from our distant past who is both the spiritual and physical ancestor of Haman, the villain of the Purim story.
Posted on: 2021/02/19 - 10:20am
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Tetzaveh / Purim 2021 - Yael Ridberg
Purim 2020 was the last in-person event celebrated by many Jewish communities around the country before the COVID-19 shutdown. Little did we understand that the essential psychological principle of Purim of hafichut – the reversibility of our world – would come to mean something even more profound than what we had come to expect.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/righting-world-turned-upside-down
Posted on: 2021/02/26 - 12:28pm
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Jacob DT Pre-Passover Covid 2020
This d’var Torah was written during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Passover 2020 approached. While the specific circumstances have changed since its writing, the spiritual insights remain deeply relevant.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/what-true-moment
Posted on: 2020/03/26 - 12:41pm
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Akharey Mot-Kedoshim d'var Torah - Yael Ridberg - 2021 week of George Floyd murder trial
[Originally posted at Times of Israel on 4/22/2021]
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/mighty-waters-justice-love
Posted on: 2021/04/23 - 10:05am
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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
