This week’s recording ponders how we move into a new week, and constructively move forward in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the ensuing protests. There is a through line from the horror of slavery to the systemic racism of today. To shin

Ruth the Moabite: Profile in Courage

May 17th, 2020 8m 7s

Rabbi Ruth explores a profile in courage—the life and times of her biblical namesake, Ruth the Moabite. Ruth was an unlikely hero who boldly faced the challenges of a plague and famine. There is much to be gleaned from the book of Ruth about ho

Navigating the Corona Virus

May 11th, 2020 7m 13s

Each of us has a different tale to tell about this pandemic. We may all be in the same storm, but we’re not all on the same boat. We are weathering the storm in our own vessels and yet we are on these seas together, sailing to a new world beyon

After Death, Holiness

Apr 25th, 2020 5m 31s

Experts are telling us we will have the Coronavirus with us for the next 18 months to two years…how do we continue to be a synagogue?Well, that is not an easy question. Fortunately, we can learn from our sacred texts and the selfless acts of o

Lessons From The Road

Apr 18th, 2020 8m 43s

This period between Passover and Shavuot, is known as the Sefirat Ha’Omer, when we count each day, each week on our exodus from Egypt to Sinai. During this strange moment of the pandemic, as we remember life as it used to be, and we wonder what

Celebrating Freedom, Sheltering in Place

Mar 29th, 2020 6m 27s

This year, when we let ourselves celebrate our ancestors’ journey from oppression to liberation, albeit, separately, as we shelter in place, we will embody the paradoxical truth of Passover: by staying home, we free ourselves and each other