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2018-10-08T08:15:37-04:00

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Noah: Words above the Waters

Last updated on: October 8, 2018 at 8:15 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32) By Avraham Yizhak (Arthur) Green The story of Noah’s flood remains one of the best-known and most powerful tales of our biblical heritage. Even in our secular age, there is hardly a child who has not heard the story told, seen it recreated in animation, or played with toys based on the animals in Noah’s ark. What is it about this story that seems to have such great enduring power? Is it just that it fits... Read more

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2018-10-03T08:06:23-04:00

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We Are Created Creative

Last updated on: October 3, 2018 at 8:06 am By Hebrew College

(Parashat Beresheit, Genesis 1:1-6:8) By Rabbi Adina Allen Beresheit Bara Elohim, In the beginning, God created. These are the first three words of the Torah, which we begin reading again this week. We roll all the way back to the beginning of beginnings, to the first event in the Torah: creation. Acting out of some desire or impulse, God dives deep into the tohu v’vohu, the depths of primordial chaos, and creates: separating light and dark, dividing waters, shifting land... Read more

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2018-09-26T18:15:15-04:00

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You Shall Have Nothing But Joy

Last updated on: September 26, 2018 at 6:15 pm By Hebrew College

Sukkot By Rabbi Brian Besser Yom Kippur is the most ethereal of Jewish holidays. On the holiest day of the year, we symbolically shed the trappings of material existence. To my mind, the reason for fasting is not so much to afflict ourselves but to elevate ourselves above the earthly plane of reality. As much as humanly possible, we abstain from physical needs and urges. We don’t eat; we don’t bathe; we don’t engage in sexual relations; if we could,... Read more

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2018-09-18T08:26:34-04:00

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What Comes After

Last updated on: September 18, 2018 at 8:26 am By Hebrew College

Parshat Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-52) By Rabbi Avi Strausberg When my wife and I were developing the language of our ketubah, a rabbi offered us an important piece of advice: think seriously about the people who you choose as witnesses for your ketubah. If and when, 5, 10, 20 years down the line, things become difficult in your marriage, should you begin acting toward one another in ways that are hurtful, thoughtless, perhaps even cruel, these are the people that will remind... Read more

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2018-09-18T15:17:37-04:00

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Hypocrisy, Boundaries, and the Mitzvah of Part-time Piety

Last updated on: September 18, 2018 at 3:17 pm By Hebrew College

The Days of Repentance By Rabbi Micha’el Rosenberg Years ago, while walking back to my college dorm room from Kol Nidrei services, I was shocked to hear my roommate—fresh off all of the confessions and regret that are baked into the Yom Kippur liturgy—use a word not fit to print in the virtual pages of Seventy Faces. With all the self-righteousness of a 20-year old, I called him out on it: “It’s Yom Kippur night! Is this how you want... Read more

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2018-09-10T18:17:17-04:00

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I was not at Sinai

Last updated on: September 10, 2018 at 6:17 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20) By Rabbi Elisha Herb The people stand at Sinai as would-be converts to the Torah covenant, long since created in the mystical realms but yet to be received by the people Israel. The Torah tells us, it is “…not only with you that I make this covenant and this oath, but with [1] those who are standing here with us this day before the LORD our God and [2]those who are not with us here this... Read more

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2018-08-23T10:21:08-04:00

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The Torah needs a Trigger Warning

Last updated on: August 23, 2018 at 10:21 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Ki Tetzei (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) By Rabbi Avi Killip My summer began at a panel conversation about “What Feminist Torah Needs to Look Like.” Professor Judith Plaskow, a gadol (one of the greats!) in the field, challenged the 300 people in the room to not skip over the difficult parts of Torah in our teaching and sermons: “There is so much richness in the Torah that it is easy in any specific instance to look away from the parts that... Read more

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2018-08-17T08:36:28-04:00

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Chasing Compromise

Last updated on: August 17, 2018 at 8:36 am By Hebrew College

Parashat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) By Rabbi Jane Kanarek “Imma, you’re not being fair!” complains my eldest son as he fights with his middle brother over who gets to choose stickers first. “Imma,” says my middle son, “you always let him choose first!” “Work it out!” interjects their father. “I want them first,” chimes in the youngest. It is a classic parental dilemma: do I make the judgment about who gets the stickers first or do I wait and let them... Read more

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2018-08-08T14:08:29-04:00

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Blessing, Curse, and the Freedom to Choose

Last updated on: August 8, 2018 at 2:08 pm By Hebrew College

Parshat Re’eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) By Rabbi Shira Shazeer I may have been at summer camp the first time I heard the story, attributed to the itinerant Rabbi Haim of Romshishok, of the difference between heaven and hell. Reb Haim, the story goes, had the opportunity to visit the world to come, and was brought first to see hell. There, he observed banquet tables laden with food, surrounded by people clearly suffering from hunger. On closer inspection he could see that the... Read more

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2018-08-01T21:20:24-04:00

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We Don’t Live by Bread Alone

Last updated on: August 1, 2018 at 9:20 pm By Hebrew College

Parashat Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) By Rabbi Daniel Klein, Rab`10, MJEd`10 “In L.A., nobody touches you. We’re always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.” (Paul Haggis’ Crash) With these opening lines, the movie Crash captures a truth about the human condition – we need each other. For practical, emotional, spiritual reasons and more, we are meant to be in relationship. The Bible... Read more

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