Shabbat Reflection: Parashat Chayei Sarah
October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 // 23 Heshvan 5782 The Torah’s description of Rebekah and Isaac’s first meeting is intimate and very moving. Isaac had just come back from the vicinity of [...]
Get up, Stand up!- Shabbat Behukotai 5779 (2019)
May 31, 2019An old time Hebrew children’s song, long a staple of Jewish summer camp and preschool, celebrates having one’s cake and eating it too. Sung while dancing in a circle, the [...]
Yom haZikkaron (Memorial Day) & Yom haAtzma’ut (Independence Day) 5779
May 8, 2019They waited for him to come home:the trimmed lawn, the tree in its saucer, the faded plastic chairs, the rustygate, creaking on its hinges.Mother, brother, father, sister, frozen in time: wilting, transparent,bowed down with weight of [...]
Chabad of Poway – Week Two of Counting the Omer
April 29, 2019Haverim - Another synagogue shooting, exactly six months from Tree of Life, on the last day of Pesah, the festival of our freedom. It’s hard to know what to say. [...]
Look Closely, Listen Well
April 5, 2019This week and next, we encounter the Torah's ritual and law regarding tzara'at - skin afflictions. While not easy reading, Tazria (this week'sparasha) and Metzora (next week's parasha), serve up valuable and [...]
The Work Of Our Hands- Shabbat Tetzaveh 5779
March 29, 2019Makes distinctions! That, in a mere two words, is the central command of Leviticus 11, the Torah's first collection of rules regarding eating. Separate this from that! Same concept, now [...]
Join Me at Quba Mosque – Friday 1:30 PM
March 19, 2019Chaverim - In the days after the Tree of Life massacre, many neighbors and friends joined us at BAI for worship and fellowship. Among the first calls of support I [...]