Compassion and Empathy, Longform, This Week In Wisdom, Weekly Parsha |
July 21, 2022
To Have and to Hold
Fresh coats of paint connecting us to our lineage and our history...
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Inspiring Story, Mundane Into Sacred, This Week In Wisdom, Weekly Parsha |
July 14, 2022
Torah Loves a Wise Donkey
The Torah reminds us to look to the wise animals....
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Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Inspiring Story, Science & Technology, Spirituality & Faith, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha |
July 14, 2022
The Stars in the Past Give Us a Powerful Present
Late Monday night and Tuesday morning, the James Webb Telescope showed its first images after its launch six months ago. And while the images from the Hubble telescope were incredible, these blow away even astronomers. As these images inspire everyone from NASA astrophysicists to ordinary laypeople, they remind us that seeing the size and scope of the universe never gets old. Stars have captured the human imagination for millennia, and we’ve often linked the workings of the heavens with the actions here on earth. In antiquity, the movement of the stars were often used......
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June 30, 2022
We Read Torah Differently in Israel
Take time to stand and see....
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Another Way Of Looking At Things, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha |
June 22, 2022
Visual versus Verbal
The Power of Language...
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This week’s Torah portion, Parshat Nasso relates the ancient and problematic practice of Sotah, in which a husband who experiences a “fit of jealousy” and is “wrought up” (Numbers 5:14) that his wife might have been unfaithful to him, can engage a ritual practice to discern whether she is innocent of wrongdoing. It is grotesquely patriarchal and filled with magical thinking that a yucky mixture of barley flour, earth from the floor of the Tabernacle, and water “induces a spell” that makes a woman’s “thigh to sag” and “belly to distend” if......
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Compassion and Empathy, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha |
May 26, 2022
Making Our Laws Holy
When an 18-year-old (may his name be blotted out) walked into a gun shop and bought a pair of assault rifles and enough ammunition to create a war zone at an elementary school, he violated no laws. The gun laws in Texas and across many parts of the United States have been so debased as to make the unholy legal. The law walked hand in hand with the gunman up to the point in which he trespassed and then unleashed carnage, taking the lives of 19 small children and two teachers in what should have been......
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Compassion and Empathy, Longform, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized, Weekly Parsha |
May 13, 2022
Responding to Unscrupulous Leadership
Scandals involving clergy abound today, from misappropriation of funds to inappropriate personal conduct and outright abuse. Could this week's Torah portion provide guidance about how we might respond? ...
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