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God Loves The Stranger Feature
The high holy days are a time of collective and personal renewal. We ask ourselves “what do we value?” “What do we cherish?” We deepen our ongoing Jewish human project of creating a just and peaceful society and living a just and peaceful life. And we inquire “what is the relationship between the inner and the outer work of transformation?” I don’t have to tell any of you. It’s not easy.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/love-the-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 1:17pm
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Embracing the Stranger - Internal
Embracing the stranger is an endeavor that requires not just outward action, but internal effort on many levels. Both as individuals and communities, real inclusion involves rethinking of boundaries.
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https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/looking-within
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 1:06pm
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Embracing the Stranger - Justice and Wider World
Embracing the stranger is not just an individual journey—it’s a communal calling. We are commanded as Jews to “Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 10:19) In the face of fear, hostility, or simple disregard toward those who are different, our challenge is to lift up our common humanity, and our inherent dignity and worth as beings b’tzelem Elohim, reflecting the divine image.
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https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/wider-world
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:46pm
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Embracing the Stranger - Interpersonal
At times, we have the opportunity and challenge of embracing strangers when we meet them face-to-face. These encounters can be deeply unsettling at first. But as barriers of difference fall, they can be deeply meaningful, even transformational.
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https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/stranger-before-us
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:05pm
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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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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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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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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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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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First Fruits - DT Ki Tavo
This week’s parasha, Ki Tavo, includes within it a description of the intricate ritual the people were to engage in once settled in the Land of Israel. Moses commands them to place in a basket the first fruits of their harvest and to present them to the priests at the Temple. While doing so they are to recite a formula recalling they were slaves in Egypt, liberated by God, and given the land whose first fruits they now enjoy.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/first-fruits
Posted on: 2017/09/01 - 10:12am
