New Year
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The First Ten Days
MMXXVI has started off with a bang, as I think most of us expect these days…but also with a steady slowness that provides hope for anchoring amidst the chaos of the world (especially…
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- 5783, 5784, Brooklyn, Chevrutah, Friends, High Holidays, Lifelong Learning, Music, New Year, New York, Relationship, Rosh Hoshannah, Talmud, YIVO
I’ll Stop the World & Melt With You…
A gut, gebentsht, zis, umbagrayflekh yor!! In the next few days, I hope to get into a few topics more deeply (like Hagar, sharing about my Yom Kippur learning session that will incorporate…
- 5781, Collaboration, Dissertation, Dissertation Diary, Elul, Faithfulness, Goals, Interfaith, New Year, Pandemic, Parsha, Ritual, Yiddish
Elul + Goalz
This year has been magnificent, stressful, eye-opening, life-changing, a whirlwind, a time for reflection, hopeful, frightening, confusing, illuminating, disappointing, and anything but normal. Although 5780’s not yet done, reflecting on the course…
- 5778, Days of Awe, Gemara, Haazinu, High Holidays, Interpretation, Listening, Liturgy, Midrash, Moses, New Year, Praise, Prayer, Rosh Hoshannah, Textual Criticism, Yamim Noraim, Yom Kippur
5778 Ways to Listen This Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Clearly I need to make some resolutions, like getting through the whole year on here…oh well, maybe after I finish coursework (this year!) you’ll see some improvements. But really –…
- Benjamin, Bereshit, Chanukah, Dreams, Egypt, Family, Famine, Jacob, Joseph, Light, Maccabees, Menorah, Miketz, New Year, Parsha, Pharaoh, Prison, Trials
Don’t Let Your Light Go Out!
This is the week of our Chanukah celebration. Each night we lit candles and remembered the story of the Maccabees. This strong family served as a light for our people. The first book…