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2024-01-03T14:40:59-04:00

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When The Narrow Place Is Refuge

Last updated on: January 3, 2024 at 2:40 pm By Hebrew College

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Parashat Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1) By Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman In the middle of my house, hanging between my living and dining rooms, is a blue lycra therapy swing. When the world overwhelms me, when my body is jittery, when my eyes ache with the slightest light and my ears from the slightest sound, I fold my body into this swing. It curls up and around me, like a hug from all sides. I close my eyes. I wrap my arms... Read more

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2023-12-18T09:35:30-04:00

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Who is Joseph?

Last updated on: December 18, 2023 at 9:35 am By Hebrew College

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Parashat Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) By Naomi Gurt Lind These past few parashiot, we have been deeply engaged with Joseph, that maddening, inspiring, outsized personality whose story looms large over both Genesis and Exodus and yet who remains nameless in our liturgy. That in itself is curious, that he gets four parashiot (maybe four and a half) and yet not a word in our daily prayers. Who is this fascinating and difficult character? Joseph has a rich and complicated emotional life... Read more

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2023-12-11T18:35:41-04:00

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How to Predict the Present

Last updated on: December 11, 2023 at 6:35 pm By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Matthew Ponak Parashat Miketz (Genesis 41:1-44:17) What a gift it would be to see into the future! And yet, in reality, most of us are barely able to gain clarity on what is happening right now. This human life is so precious. Gathering around the menorah with loved ones this time of year is one way we can really feel it. The glow of the Hanukkah candles reminds us of the light that is present even in the darkness... Read more

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2023-12-03T22:58:09-04:00

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We Are Still In Mourning

Last updated on: December 3, 2023 at 10:58 pm By Hebrew College

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Parashat Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) By Rabbi Avi Killip We are still in mourning. In the days after Oct 7th, the Jewish people were in shock. That shock slowly twisted itself into grief over the first few weeks. As the thirty day mark approached, Jewish leaders began to question how and whether to mark the occasion as an end to shloshim. In traditional Jewish mourning, when a month has passed after a death, we begin to ease ourselves out of the... Read more

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2023-11-28T18:48:29-04:00

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Our Spiritual Legacy: Torah, Lovingkindness, Struggle, Uncertainty

Last updated on: November 28, 2023 at 6:48 pm By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Becky Silverstein Parashat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43) Lately, I’ve been thinking about the saying, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” I find myself wondering: How many baskets should you have? Will you be carrying the eggs or storing them? Are these real eggs and baskets or metaphorical ones? And in any event, what is your goal? When does it make sense to heed this wisdom and separate our eggs, and when might we need to put all... Read more

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2023-11-28T18:41:08-04:00

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How Awesome and Terrible Is This Place

Last updated on: November 28, 2023 at 6:41 pm By Hebrew College

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By Chaim Spaulding, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Vayetze (Genesis 28:10–32:3) Last winter, I went to my grandfather’s funeral, and afterwards, my living family and I took a trip to Death Valley. Grieving my grandfather, I felt keenly aware of my own mortality and my loved ones’ mortality. The magnificence of Death Valley only exists because of the instability of tectonic plates in motion over the course of millions of years. Standing on the floor of the valley, with rain... Read more

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2023-11-16T20:37:04-04:00

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Possession, Envy, and Hope

Last updated on: November 16, 2023 at 8:37 pm By Hebrew College

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Parashat Toldot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) By Naomi Gurt Lind Growing up, there was a time when one of my siblings received a gift I really wished had been mine. (It was a snow globe, if you must know.) I very nicely asked if I could have a turn with it and as soon as it was in my hand, I threw it across the room. I only meant to show how upset I was, but of course the laws of physics had... Read more

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2023-11-08T08:46:43-04:00

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Aging with Vitality

Last updated on: November 8, 2023 at 8:46 am By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Jim Morgan RS ‘08 Parashat Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18) At Centre Communities of Brookline, an independent housing facility in Massachusetts where I serve as Community Rabbi and Chaplain, I have the privilege of working with a surprising number of very old people. By “very old,” I mean folks in their nineties or older, including one person who recently turned 106. Among the questions that come up in my conversations with these residents is why they are still alive:... Read more

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2023-11-03T08:15:42-04:00

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A Divine Image Problem

Last updated on: November 3, 2023 at 8:15 am By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Shira Shazeer RS ‘10 Parashat Vayeira (Genesis 18:1-22:24) “I really prefer Semitism,” one of my teens remarked around the Shabbat table this week, on hearing about an educational program for teens about antisemitism. Understandably, in the wake of Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli citizens, and the callous support for that calculated act of mass terrorism that we’ve seen in various communities and college campuses, Jewish communities are responding with programs to prepare and educate our teens for what... Read more

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2023-11-01T16:57:06-04:00

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Turning Curses into Blessings

Last updated on: November 1, 2023 at 4:57 pm By Hebrew College

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By Rav-Hazzan Ken Richmond Parashat Lech Lecha (Genesis 12:1-17:27) Last week, while talking about the news in Israel, my ten-year-old asked me, “Why don’t some people like other people?” I told him about people hating other people because they are different, because they are jealous or scared of them. I talked about competing claims for land or resources. I spoke about the long tradition of scapegoats, of people in power oppressing a populace but channeling their resentment towards Jews or other... Read more

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