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2021-09-17T10:34:30-04:00

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Remembrance and Teshuvah

Last updated on: September 17, 2021 at 10:34 am By Hebrew College

Haazinu (Deuteronomy 32:1–52) By Jessica Spencer | Sepember 15, 2021 Haazinu is a swansong, a poem declaimed by Moses before he dies and leaves the Israelites to face their future. At this time of year, a time of both reflection and new beginnings, it calls us to remember our past and to take these words to heart for the new year. Maimonides draws attention in particular to the last line of the first aliyah: זְכֹר֙ יְמ֣וֹת עוֹלָ֔ם בִּ֖ינוּ שְׁנ֣וֹת דֹּר־וָדֹ֑ר... Read more

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2021-09-08T21:23:38-04:00

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Words of Love and Truth

Last updated on: September 8, 2021 at 9:23 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat VaYelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-31:30) By Rabbi Ebn Leader | September 8, 2021 As the Torah winds up its narrative towards the death of Moshe, it offers a few final examples of his leadership. These include his teaching of the song of Ha’azinu in next week’s parasha (Devarim 32:1-43), and his blessings to the tribes in the final parasha. Yet this week’s reading introduces the song with a very dark moment. In Devarim 31:16, God says to Moshe: After you die... Read more

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2021-08-31T15:36:14-04:00

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Choosing Transformation—Over and Over Again

Last updated on: August 31, 2021 at 3:36 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9–30:20) By Rabbi Becky Silverstein | August 31, 2021 This summer, my family and I spent four nights at my mom and step dad’s house in Vermont. For two of the nights we were there, our group consisted of 11 adults and 4 children, ranging in age from 14 months to 7 years old. I spent a lot of time thinking about food. What will we feed our toddler for lunch? Do we have enough bananas? (We never... Read more

Jewish Studio Project

2021-08-23T13:37:19-04:00

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Our Evolving Relationship To Prayer

Last updated on: August 23, 2021 at 1:37 pm By Hebrew College

Ki Tavo (Exodus 26:1-29:8) By Rabbi Brian Besser | August 23, 2021 During upcoming High Holiday services, we will shortly confront one of the most theologically disturbing prayers in all Jewish liturgy, the Unetaneh Tokef, which begins: “On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is decreed . . . who shall live and who shall die . . . . ” One year, a congregant, Jen Richler, came to me to discuss the spiritual disaffection that the... Read more

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2021-08-17T17:28:56-04:00

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Returning to Our Neighbors—To See or Not to See?

Last updated on: August 17, 2021 at 5:28 pm By Hebrew College

Parshat Ki Teitzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) By Rabbi Shira Shazeer | August 17, 2021 It is the month of Elul. In just a few weeks we’ll reach the High Holy Days, our yearly attempt to start fresh, to get things right. As I write these words though, I am keenly aware, and I imagine you are too, of the baggage that we, as a global society, will be bringing with us into the new year. Each Yom Kippur, we repeat the vidui, the liturgical, alphabetical list... Read more

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2021-08-12T10:32:41-04:00

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Elul, T’shuvah, and Shame: The Eglah Arufah

Last updated on: August 12, 2021 at 10:32 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9) By Rafi Ellenson | August 9, 2021 Now that Elul has begun, I am once again undertaking the process of chesbon ha’nefesh—accounting of the soul. Reflecting on the year that was, I meditate on moments I fell short and times when I could have been better to my loved ones, as well as to the greater community around me. Frankly, it is hard not to wince when thinking of particularly embarrassing or shameful incidents. And while, fortunately, these instances... Read more

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2021-08-05T11:06:49-04:00

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Blessing, Curse, and the Freedom to Choose

Last updated on: August 5, 2021 at 11:06 am By Hebrew College

Parshat Re’eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) By Rabbi Shira Shazeer | August 5, 2021 The following was originally posted on August 7, 2018. Rereading this Dvar Torah, three years later, it strikes me how innumerable individual choices still make the difference between whether our lives as a community are like heaven or hell on earth, just as surely as they did when I shared this story last, as they did when I heard the story years before, and as they did when the... Read more

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2021-07-27T10:56:34-04:00

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The End of Miracles

Last updated on: July 27, 2021 at 10:56 am By Hebrew College

Parshat Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25) By Rabbi Avi Strausberg | July 26, 2021 We live in a time beyond the wondrous miracles that God performed for the Israelites in the wilderness. There are no staffs that turn into snakes or seas that split before our eyes. While we may discover the miraculous in small moments of wonder, the big miracles, the miracles that defy the laws of nature, these are a thing of the past. In Parshat Eikev, Moshe reminds the Israelites... Read more

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2021-07-23T10:34:00-04:00

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Take Care of Yourself

Last updated on: July 23, 2021 at 10:34 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Va’etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23–7:11) By Rabbi Minna Bromberg | July 23, 2021 So take care of your soul, my friend, she is far more precious than gold. Every evening for months and months now, I have started my 19-month-old’s bedtime songs with these words. They are from Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld’s interpretation of a 16th-century North African piyut (a Jewish liturgical poem) and to me they call on each of us to honor and protect the preciousness and brilliance of every... Read more

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2021-07-13T11:57:17-04:00

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

Last updated on: July 13, 2021 at 11:57 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22) Naomi Gurt Lind | July 13, 2021 I never get tired of saying this: the Torah is always right on time. Last Shabbat we came to what felt like a stopping place at the end of Bamidbar (the Book of Numbers). With the journey to the Promised Land seemingly about to be realized, God spoke through Moshe one last time, summarizing the laws and commandments that the Israelites should follow for eternity. Cities of refuge were established, each tribal chief... Read more

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