Please join me for six weeks of meaningful study on the themes of the High Holidays
This is not a poem about Sarah This is not her life story This is not her eulogy Sarah is not here This is a story about men About men who don’t know how to reconcile About men who know how to be followers of God but not good husbands or fathers Or sons Or
Chayei Sarah: A Glimpse Read More »
Women birthing babies is the essence of everything the beginning of us all And yet such a complicated thing not a simple matter of choosing where and when and how A woman can pray for a baby that never comes can lose many along the way can die trying to bring about life A woman
When God called Abraham to GO! Abraham was silent. He was also silent when God told him to take his son up a mountain and sacrifice him there. I think I get it now. We question Abraham’s silence during these trials because so often he is chatty with God. He has so much to say.
Lech Lecha: The Silent Journey Read More »
Sometimes you just have to start fresh – pack up what’s good and wipe out the rest Sometimes you have to get on a boat or a train or a plain and just Go; leave one life for the next. Sometimes you might not even know where exactly you are going. You trust that the
On Shabbat Noah 5779 Read More »
In the beginning there was residue tohu vavohu from what came before; from other beginnings and endings This is just One beginning in an endless universe (a multiverse?) of beginnings In the beginning there was Hope and Grief intermingled Forward-looking, baggage-carrying, enthusiastic optimism and timid trepidation Will that which happened before happen again? Will this