The shofar calls to us:  Awake, you slumberers, from your slumber, and rouse yourselves from your deep sleep.  Search your deeds and turn in repentance.  Remember your Creator, you who […]

Our CSA shares are nourishing both the bodies and the souls of our congregation!  Each week, congregants pick up a box of organic vegetables to bring home and one share […]

We can approach this season, this work of Cheshbon HaNefesh, the accounting of our souls, with a strategy. Find something to repeat. What is the power of repetition? Whether it […]

Amichai Lau-Lavie writes: The toothache started about two days ago, gentle at first. By Saturday night, though, it had upgraded from nagging ache to actual pain. With it came the […]

One of the ways we prepare in Elul is by “cheshbon ha-nefesh,” taking an accounting of our soul.  Anyone with an IRA or any kind of investment portfolio will take […]

Why does Torah teach: you shall put the words of Torah on your heart?  Why not, in your heart?  Because, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz teaches: each of us, at some time, […]

Too often, the hard work of the High Holy Days gives us an opportunity to beat ourselves up and tear ourselves down, to dwell only on our sins.  We recite […]

There’s always a spiritual meaning!  “Appoint yourselves judges and officers in your gates” teaches the Torah in last week’s Shoftim.  Typically understood as the establishment of a judicial system, Hasidic […]

Last night, in a doc called “Weed,” CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, shared a compassionate and compelling apology.   Gupta explained that he had long reviewed the scientific literature on medical marijuana […]

Do our words really matter? In his sermon Friday evening, Rabbi Bill Kuhn explored how every time we speak to another, we have the opportunity to heal or to hurt, […]