War
- 5785, Abraham, Affliction, Conflict, Flood, Hagar, High Holidays, Ishmael, Israel, Matriarchs, Memory, Middle East, Mourning, Psalms, Sarah, Secondary Wives, War
Seeking to be Seen
I have never been happier to study the “secondary wives,” an often-forgotten group of people, and when remembered, almost always misunderstood. Who can be blamed – there is a dearth of information, missing…
- 5784, Aaron, Battle, Beshalach, Egypt, Exodus, Fear, Midbar, Miriam, Moses, Music, Parsha, Pharaoh, Philistines, Red Sea, Shemot, Songs, War, Wilderness
Fear of Battle, Praise of Miracles
At a time when we again feel the emotions of watching war, fighting, death, fear, loss of home and land, the first two verses of Parashat Beshalach resounded with me. וַיְהִ֗י בְּשַׁלַּ֣ח פַּרְעֹה֮ אֶת־הָעָם֒…
- 5784, Bereshit, Genesis, Haftorah, Hope, Isaiah, Israel, Lekh Lekha, Palestine, Parsha, Strength, War
Can We Rest From Weariness?
The last three weeks feel interminable, moving like a dense fog and whirling us around all at once. News of deaths, illness, injuries, human suffering and crises, hostages held during this entire span…