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2020-12-23T18:21:11-04:00

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Unity or Division?

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 6:21 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat Vayigash (Genesis 44:18 – 47:27) By Rabbi Jim Morgan | Dec 21, 2020 This year we have emerged from the bright flare of the final evening of Chanukah into the extreme darkness of this particular winter. Yes, the nights have slowly begun to shorten, giving way to slightly longer days, but our country’s political polarization and struggle with COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm the hope we might place in next month’s inauguration and the vaccines that promise to stem the tide of... Read more

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2020-12-15T12:25:47-04:00

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Chanukah Heroines of Yore

Last updated on: December 15, 2020 at 12:25 pm By Hebrew College

Parasha Mikeitz: Genesis 41:1-44:17 By Rachel Adelman | December 14, 2020 When we light Chanukah candles around the winter solstice, we shunt back the darkness, defy the long nights, and, placing the menorah on the boundary of our homes, proclaim the Chanukah miracle [pirsumei nisa]. Yet the debate as to what that miracle may have been still rages. Most Jews are familiar with the rabbinic account of the little cruse of pure oil found in the Holy of Holies of the Temple, which should have... Read more

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2020-12-08T13:18:50-04:00

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Refusing to be comforted

Last updated on: December 8, 2020 at 1:18 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat Vayeishev (Genesis 37:1–40:23) By Rabbi Minna Bromberg | December 8, 2020 My Moroccan-Israeli obstetrician here in Jerusalem was somewhat taken aback by my sudden and adamant refusal to schedule my Cesarean birth for the day that looked best to her: December 25. I realized that she didn’t have the time and I didn’t have the energy to explain my Jewish-American objection to the date as my baby’s birthday. So I simply asked if we could push it off one more day.... Read more

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2020-12-02T14:38:20-04:00

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What Violence is Being Perpetrated In My Name (And What Am I Going To Do About It)?

Last updated on: December 2, 2020 at 2:38 pm By Hebrew College

Parshat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4 – 36:43). By Rabbi Avi Killip | December 2, 2020 Weekly Torah reading offers us the opportunity to read our sacred texts against the backdrop of our lives. The ritual allows each parsha to collect new meanings and associations drawn from the ever-changing events of the world around us. These new understandings come back to us again and again through each year’s encounter with that same parsha. Like a snowball that grows, the stories become richer and deeper with each passing year.... Read more

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2020-11-25T13:12:22-04:00

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Hallelujah for a Good Night’s Sleep

Last updated on: November 25, 2020 at 1:12 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat Vayetzei (Genesis 28:10–32:3) By Rabbi Jordan Braunig | November 25, 2020 I think we can all agree that 2020 has messed with us in ways large and small. One of the most vexing and persistent of the non-catastrophic events of this past year is the change in our sleep patterns. Insomnia, it seems, is just one more symptom of these anxious times. Between COVID and a seemingly- endless election cycle, many of us have found the sweet refuge of sleep a... Read more

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2020-11-16T09:39:56-04:00

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Generations and Their Wells

Last updated on: November 16, 2020 at 9:39 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Toledot (Genesis 25:19-28:9) By Rabbi Arthur Green The narratives of Genesis, especially in readings for Va-Yera and Toledot, are an interweaving of two sets of tales. The better-known ones are the stories of our patriarchal family: the birth of sons and the conflicts between them, first Isaac and Ishmael, then Jacob and Esau. Alternating with these chapters are accounts of our ancestors’ attempts to live among their neighbors, including repeated conflicts over wives, land, flocks, and wells. Given the terrain of the Land... Read more

2020-11-11T11:55:05-04:00

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Sunrise, Sunset

Last updated on: November 11, 2020 at 11:55 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Chayei Sarah (Genesis 23:1-25:18) By Rabbi Shira Shazeer | November 11, 2020 Saturday night, the sun set early, bringing an end to Shabbat and a reminder that we’ve reached the darker portion of the year. And while my kids turned to their Zoom screens to spend the evening playing with their friends, I did something I rarely do. I turned on live television, and watched the speeches given by Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris and President-Elect Joe Biden. It was a historic moment; historic... Read more

2020-11-05T10:48:54-04:00

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“Return from the Place of Shattering”

Last updated on: November 5, 2020 at 10:48 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Vayeira (Genesis 18:1-22:24) By Rabbi Ebn Leader | November 4, 2020 “And they made a covenant at Be’er Sheva, and Avimelech and Pichol, the chief of his army, departed and returned to the Land of the Philistines. Then Avraham planted a tree (Tamarisk) in Be’er Sheva, and called out, and proclaimed and invoked the name—YHVH, the eternal God of the World” (Genesis, 21:32-33) As I write, the morning following the elections, it is not yet known who the next president of... Read more

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2020-10-26T13:43:13-04:00

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Journeying towards the new world we are being shown

Last updated on: October 26, 2020 at 1:43 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat Lech-Lecha (Genesis 12:1 – 17:27) By Rabbi Adina Allen | Oct 26, 2020 Among the most quintessential stories in Jewish tradition is that of God’s call to Abraham: “Lech l’cha,” “go forth — from your land, from your birthplace, from your parent’s house to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). With this call, Abraham is asked to leave behind the place where he is from, what he knows, and who he has been up until this point in his life... Read more

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2020-10-21T10:25:19-04:00

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Building Towers to Knock Them Down

Last updated on: October 21, 2020 at 10:25 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32) By Rabbi Becky SIlverstein | Oct 20, 2020 From the floor on which I sit stacking blocks one on top of the other, I have a clear view of our bookshelves. I can see the complete Talmud set that my spouse bought me as a wedding present, a collection of bell hooks’ works that I’ve only barely begun to dig into, sets of Midrash Rabbah and Netivot Shalom with beautiful bindings, and a stack of Octavia Butler. Out of the corner of... Read more

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