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A High Holy Days 2020 Letter from Rabbi Naomi
Dear Temple Members & Friends, This will be a High Holy Day season unlike any before. In their wisdom, our dedicated Board has decided that all our events will […]
Shabbat Chazon – Shabbat of Vision
How do we cultivate positive vision when we know something awful is coming? 2,000 years ago the rabbis of the Talmud grappled with this question as they coped with the […]
Stay Connected
In Talmud we read, “Do not separate yourself from the community.” אַל תִּפְרֹשׁ מִּן הַצִּבּוּר – Al tifrosh min ha-tsibur – Pirkey Avot 2:14 This has been a guiding principle, […]
Making Blessings, Washing Hands and Staying Home
In that great compendium of Jewish wisdom called Talmud, we read that a person should make 100 blessings a day: תניא היה ר’ מאיר אומר: חייב אדם לברך מאה ברכות […]
O Jerusalem! A Reflection on Chanukah 2017
For the last few nights the crescent of the waning moon has been beaming bravely in the winter sky, while growing smaller and smaller. And today at noon my yard […]