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2023-10-16T14:16:52-04:00

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How to Build an Ark

Last updated on: October 16, 2023 at 2:16 pm By Hebrew College

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By Leah Carnow Parashat Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32) Last year, I interviewed my seven-year-old nephew; we discussed the story of Noah. We spoke about many things—what the story was about, what the characters were thinking, why God made the flood. One of the questions that struck me most was our discussion on a question Torah learners have been asking for generations—why did God choose Noah? In the opening line of Parashat Noach, the Torah teaches that “Noah was a righteous man, upright in... Read more

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2023-10-10T11:00:06-04:00

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The Spiraling Cycle of (Re)Creation

Last updated on: October 10, 2023 at 11:00 am By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Adina Allen Parashat Bereishit (Genesis 1:1-6:8) “I’ve never felt physically aligned with the conception of linear time” writes author Sophie Strand. “Time…layers, compresses, buckles…The past can change and reflux into the present. The present can settle like dust and pollen on other older sedimented events, forming a physical chronicle.”¹ Emerging from the power and intensity of our high holiday season, we end with a celebration of the cyclical, spiraling nature of time. Just last week, on Simchat Torah, we... Read more

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Simchat Torah

2023-10-02T10:58:50-04:00

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Just Me and My Baby

Last updated on: October 2, 2023 at 10:58 am By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Minna Bromberg Shmini Atzeret / Simchat Torah We are coming to the end of the Jewish calendar’s long season of introspection, accountability, celebration, and many many prayers for rain, for renewal, and for redemption. With Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur behind us, and our sukkot perhaps not holding themselves up so well, every lulav is by now, we hope, very thoroughly shaken. Many of us have had lots of time with family, with community, and with our own best and... Read more

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Simchat Torah

2023-09-26T13:19:43-04:00

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Abodes of Possibility: Sukkot 5784

Last updated on: September 26, 2023 at 1:19 pm By Hebrew College

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By Risa Dunbar Exodus 33:12-34:26 I have always felt that celebrating Sukkot in New England means facing the tension between our physical vulnerability, and our tradition’s description of this season as “the time of our joy.” Some years it has been impossible to sing in the Sukkah while drenched and shivering, or to enjoy dinner as shreds of multicolored decorations are whipped into my food by the wind. But Sukkot, at its best, can serve as a time for grappling... Read more

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Sukkot

2023-09-20T09:03:42-04:00

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The Gift of Darkness

Last updated on: September 20, 2023 at 9:03 am By Hebrew College

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By Heather Renetzky Parashat Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-52) In his final reminder to the Israelites about their covenant with God, Moshe, embodying the voice of God, says the following: See, then, that I, I am the One; There is no god beside Me. I deal death and give life; I wounded and I will heal: None can deliver from My hand. How does Moshe have so much trust, confidence, and acceptance of God that he can face the people and affirm God’s... Read more

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2023-09-15T00:25:52-04:00

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A Message for Rosh Hashana: Welcoming Tishrei

Last updated on: September 15, 2023 at 12:25 am By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Justin David The other day, I had the pleasure of a conversation with our teacher, Dr. Nehemia Polen. He knows how much I love hasidic texts (as I do all the learning at Hebrew College), so he stopped by my office to share a rich and beautiful teaching we would enjoy exploring together. It was a teaching on Rosh Hashana by Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, the great hasidic teacher and author of the classic Ma’or va-Shemesh, published in Krakow... Read more

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Education and Religion

2023-09-05T12:40:35-04:00

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Choose Life

Last updated on: September 5, 2023 at 12:40 pm By Hebrew College

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By Rav Rachel Adelman Parashat Nitzavim-VaYelekh (Deuteronomy 29:9–31:30) My father, Howard Adelman (z”l), passed away on July 23rd and was buried on Tisha be’Av. Though he was eighty five, and had lived a full, vigorous life, his death still came as a terrible shock to me for I thought he was immortal. He had survived so many near-misses in his life—from an attack of pericarditis when I first moved to Israel in the mid-‘80s, to a full cardiac arrest in March 2020... Read more

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2023-08-29T09:52:59-04:00

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If Only It Were Now

Last updated on: August 29, 2023 at 9:52 am By Hebrew College

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By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Ki Tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) By the time we chant Parashat Ki Tavo in synagogue this Shabbat—with its ritual enumeration of blessings and curses, and its passage of rebuke so excruciating we traditionally read it in a voice barely above a murmur—my elder son, blessing of my heart, should be safely back at college for another year. As I write this now, he is still in my home for just another few days, already dreaming of rejoining his friends... Read more

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2023-08-22T17:21:42-04:00

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From Enemy Aliens to a Free People

Last updated on: August 22, 2023 at 5:21 pm By Hebrew College

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By Jessica Spencer Parashat Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) How long does it take to belong somewhere? How many generations pass before the actions of your ancestors no longer matter? Ki Teitzei discusses who is allowed to marry into the Jewish people: לֹא־תְתַעֵב אֲדֹמִי כִּי אָחִיךָ הוּא לֹא־תְתַעֵב מִצְרִי כִּי־גֵר הָיִיתָ בְאַרְצוֹ: בָּנִים אֲשֶׁר־יִוָּלְדוּ לָהֶם דּוֹר שְׁלִישִׁי יָבֹא לָהֶם בִּקְהַל יְהֹוָה׃ Do not hate an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not hate an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in... Read more

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2023-08-14T22:35:39-04:00

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Examining the Judges in Our Souls

Last updated on: August 14, 2023 at 10:35 pm By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Frankie Sandmel Parashat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) שֹׁפְטִים וְשֹׁטְרִים תִּתֶּן־לְךָ בְּכׇל־שְׁעָרֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ לִשְׁבָטֶיךָ וְשָׁפְטוּ אֶת־הָעָם מִשְׁפַּט־צֶדֶק׃ You shall appoint judges and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the LORD your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice (Deut. 16:18). These opening lines to our parashah feel like an all too easy opportunity to wax poetic about the failings of our current judicial system, both in the US and in Israel.... Read more

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