
Breaking False Dichotomies, Hold Dualities Together, Inspiring Story, News & Politics, This Week In Wisdom |
August 15, 2022
A Gnawing Feeling
The FBI was the enemy, and now it is a potential savior....
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Soul Hack, Spirituality & Faith, This Week In Wisdom, Weekly Parsha |
August 12, 2022
From Heartbreak to Hope
Blessings for First Steps....
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The translation that "God was cross with me" seems most thoughtful and sensitive to the resonance between Hebrew and English....
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Ukraine presents me with an interesting dilemma. I am moved by the tragedy of Russia’s war of aggression and the brutality with which the Russians prosecute it. For them, human suffering is a consideration to the extent that it can persuade their enemy to surrender. The Ukrainians are victims and pawns. But there is more to it than that. When the war began, a group of rabbis in Philadelphia went to the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to attend Vespers on the eve of Lent and show our support for......
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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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Compassion and Empathy, Longform, Mundane Into Sacred, This Week In Wisdom, Uncategorized |
July 08, 2022
Parshat Chukat
Everyone wants to belong....
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