Rosh HaShanah
September 16, 2023 Rabbi David2023-09-22T12:35:09-04:00September 16, 2023 /1 Tishrei 5784 Imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. No planets in view, no spacecraft. No distant stars. No source of light. Imagine the latent [...]
September 16, 2023 /1 Tishrei 5784 Imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. No planets in view, no spacecraft. No distant stars. No source of light. Imagine the latent [...]
September 8, 2023 /22 Elul 5783 Women drawing water on the banks of the Nile, Léon Belly, 1856 (adapted). Wikimedia ‘Finish strong!’ Anyone who has ever given a speech, taught a class, [...]
August 25, 2023 /8 Elul 5783 Leningrad Codex Beginning of Parashat Ki Teitzei 1008 CE Parashat Ki Teitzei, with its 72 or 74 mitvot - depending on who's counting and [...]
August 18, 2023 /1 Elul 5783 Solomon reading from the Torah of Moses , “North French Hebrew Miscellany,” illuminated manuscript, late 13th C., The British Library A delicious Talmudic passage digs into [...]
August 11, 2023 /24 Av 5783 I will adorn your stones with garnet and lay you on a foundation of sapphires...[Isaiah 54:11] A teaching of R Moshe Haim Ephraim of [...]
July 29, 2023 /10 Av 5783 The Prophet Isaiah, Sistine Chapel ceiling Michelangelo Vatican City, Rome, Italy Two nights ago, the reading of the biblical book of Lamentations, known as [...]
July 22, 2023 /3 Av 5783 The Prophet Isaiah, Sistine Chapel ceiling Michelangelo Vatican City, Rome, Italy Shabbat Hazon, as the Shabbat right before Tisha B'Av is known, takes its [...]
July 15, 2023 / 25 Tammuz 5783 Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah Portion Masei (מַסְעֵי) with a creature with golden wings. MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; [...]
July 7, 2023 / 18 Tammuz 5783 Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Pinchas (פִּינְחָס) with this image of Pinchas with a javelin in his hand. MS [...]
June 30, 2023 / 11 Tammuz 5783 Shabbat Shalom & Happy Fourth of July! We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are [...]