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Rosh Hodesh Landing
The Hebrew months correspond to lunar cycles. The beginning of the new moon is called Rosh Ḥodesh, literally, “head of the month.” Because a lunar cycle is 29½ days, some months are one day longer than others, and some have two days of Rosh Ḥodesh, while others have only one.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/jewish-time-shabbat-and-holidays/rosh-hodesh
Posted on: 2016/12/14 - 12:25pm
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Tisha B'Av Landing
The fast day of Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, is an annual day of mourning marking the destruction of the Second Temple. Over time, Tisha B’Av became the central day of mourning on the Jewish calendar. Later generations layered their tragedies onto it.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/jewish-time-shabbat-and-holidays/tisha-bav
Posted on: 2016/12/14 - 12:25pm
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Miketz - Dreams
“All dreams follow the interpreter.” Talmud, Berakhot 55b
Everyone has dreams. Some of us dream of heights we intend to scale, battles we intend to win, glories we intend to capture. Some of us dream of love, or riches, or fame, or the quenching of our deepest desires. Some dreams are vast, and deep, and dramatic, and others are simple, and quiet, and modest. But regardless of their size or nature, we all have had dreams that inspired our actions and gave a sense of urgency to our lives.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/stuff-dreams-are-made
Posted on: 2016/12/22 - 11:55am
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Vayigash - Plans
When I was sixteen my family moved from Santa Monica to Sacramento. I had just finished my first year of high school and had been selected to play drums with the SAMOHI jazz band in the Hollywood Bowl (which I did the night before we moved). I was certainly not looking forward to leaving behind all my friends and everything I had grown up with to move to a strange new place where I knew no one. But my dad had a new job, so move we did.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/if-i-had-only-known-parashat-vayigash
Posted on: 2016/12/22 - 11:59am
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DT Miketz 2016 Love Trumps Power
“Not by might, not by power, but by my spirit….” (Zechariah 4:6)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/love-trumps-power
Posted on: 2016/12/24 - 12:00am
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DT Vaykhi Steven Carr Reuben
A woman in our congregation once came to see me with a heavy heart. Her son was soon to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. She told me a sad but unfortunately all too familiar tale of enmity and anger, silence and deep-seated hurt between members of her immediate family. How her mother hadn’t spoken to her brother in years, and her father hadn’t spoken to her sister in years, and neither the father nor the mother (both divorced now) had spoken to each other for years either.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/courage-and-forgiveness
Posted on: 2017/01/11 - 4:25pm
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DT Va'era Steven Carr Reuben
Names are very important. They have a power all their own. There are names that inspired revolutions and overturned entire civilizations. There are names that have struck terror into the hearts of all who heard them. And of course there are many who claim that the sweetest sound that a human being ever hears is the sound of his or her own name.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/naming-divine
Posted on: 2017/01/11 - 4:39pm
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Shemot DT Lewis Eron
One of the sad ironies of leadership is that leaders frequently come to believe the lies they tell and then make “reasoned” decisions based on those lies, often with disastrous results. As rulers of all sorts trick us by manipulating with such powerful emotions, such as our fear of strangers and our worry for our security, they, too, are tricked. They come to believe their own tales, get entangled in their lies. Terrible things happen, suffering increases, and policies built on lies lead, all too often, to disgrace, dishonor and defeat.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/trapped-our-own-lies
Posted on: 2017/01/11 - 5:15pm
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Network Landing: Reconstructionist Incubator (2016-17)
Reconstructionist Incubator: How might we move bold ideas to action?
Facilitated by Cyd Weissman, Assistant Vice President for Innovation and Impact at RRC/Jewish Reconstructionist Communities
For Reconstructionist Rabbis & their thought partners
Thursdays 12:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m. EST – Feb. 16, March 2, March 16, April 6, April 27 and May 4
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/networks/2016/reconstructionist-incubator
Posted on: 2017/01/12 - 3:58pm
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Network Landing: Beyond Inclusion (2016-17)
How do our organizations go beyond inclusion?
Facilitated by Rabbi Elsie Stern, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs at RRC
For lay and professional leaders engaged in shaping the culture of their organizations
Mondays 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST – April 24, May 8 and May 22
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/networks/2016/beyond-inclusion
Posted on: 2017/01/12 - 3:58pm
