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2024-10-15T09:43:46-04:00

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Finding the Etrog’s Beauty

Last updated on: October 15, 2024 at 9:43 am By Hebrew College

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By Rafi Ellenson Sukkot For many years, I could hardly stand to enter a synagogue on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Overwhelmed by the intensity of the High Holidays, its liturgy demanding that I declare myself of little merit, and its incredible emphasis on mortality; I spent several rounds of the yamim nora’im in solitude, contemplation, and protest. Only outside the bounds of prayer and community would I consider the year that was, and anticipate the year to come. This... Read more

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2024-10-09T21:29:38-04:00

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Teshuvah Through Tears

Last updated on: October 9, 2024 at 9:29 pm By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Jessica Spencer ’24 Yom Kippur The Talmud tells a story of a rabbi who wanted to repent, to make teshuvah. Rabbi Elazar ben Durdaya hears that he has sinned so badly that his teshuvah will never be accepted. He asks the mountains and hills to seek mercy for him, but they reply that they are too busy praying for mercy for themselves. Then he asks Heaven and Earth, but they too will only pray for themselves. He asks... Read more

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2024-10-01T10:33:31-04:00

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Meditation on Wild Things

Last updated on: October 1, 2024 at 10:33 am By Hebrew College

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By Naomi Gurt Lind, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Ha’azinu Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52 The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him WILD THING! And Max said, I’LL EAT YOU UP! So he was sent to bed, without eating anything. For decades, Maurice Sendak’s perfect book, Where the Wild Things Are successfully disguised itself to me as a children’s book. Lately I have come to realize it is a work with... Read more

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2024-09-24T13:37:37-04:00

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The Prophecy of Writer’s Block

Last updated on: September 24, 2024 at 1:37 pm By Hebrew College

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Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 It is the season of rabbinic writer’s block. Each year, those of us who give sermons for the High Holidays jump on to Whatsapp groups and listservs, commiserating about the pressure and challenge of speaking our truth during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services. This year, the task feels harder than ever. As we speak to a community rocked by the events of October 7th, the ongoing devastation in Gaza, rapidly spreading violence throughout the Levant,... Read more

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2024-09-18T20:39:21-04:00

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Harvesting Simcha

Last updated on: September 18, 2024 at 8:39 pm By Hebrew College

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Parashat Ki Tavo Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8 Parashat Ki Tavo outlines more of Moses’ instructions to the people on how to build a just and lasting society in the Promised Land. It begins with a commandment to take all the first fruits the people will harvest in The Land, put them in a basket, and take them to the priests as offerings. When they make the offering, they are directed to recite a passage (which we still recite thousands of years later... Read more

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2024-09-10T13:33:53-04:00

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Sowing with Tears, Reaping with Shouts of Joy?

Last updated on: September 10, 2024 at 1:33 pm By Hebrew College

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By Rav Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College Faculty Haftarat Ki Tetzei Isaiah 54:1-10 The recent events in Israel-Palestine have thrust me back to the day after October 7th—and liturgically back to Tisha be-‘Av, the most mournful day of the Jewish year. I dedicate this teaching to the memory of the six hostages killed in Gaza last week: Ori Danino z”l (age 25) Carmel Gat z”l (age 40) Hersh Goldberg-Polin z”l (age 23) Alex Lobanov z”l (age 32) Almog Sarusi z”l (age... Read more

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2024-09-02T15:16:58-04:00

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Amid the Toppling Towers

Last updated on: September 2, 2024 at 3:16 pm By Hebrew College

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By Naomi Gurt Lind Parashat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) When I signed up to write a 70 Faces essay for Parashat Shoftim, I thought maybe I’d do something with the theme of justice. After all, the parashah has this famous phrase: צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף לְמַעַן תִּחְיֶה וְיָרַשְׁתָּ אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יי Justice, justice you shall pursue, in order to live and to inherit the land, which Adonai your God has given to you. (Deuteronomy 16:20) Or perhaps I could do something about seeking guidance when... Read more

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2024-08-27T12:08:01-04:00

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When We’re Rested

Last updated on: August 27, 2024 at 12:08 pm By Hebrew College

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By Julia Spiegel, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Re’eh Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 Two weeks ago, I bought lychees and cucumbers from my local makolet (grocer) in Jerusalem. It was Erev Shabbat, and the feeling was tense. “Ma yihye?” The man behind the counter asked. “What’s going to happen?” He spoke the question we were all asking; the question I felt hanging in the air in my quieter-than-usual walks in the days prior. I wished I had an answer. Instead I said,... Read more

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2024-08-19T11:01:31-04:00

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On Attending to Rain

Last updated on: August 19, 2024 at 11:01 am By Hebrew College

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By Deborah Anstandig, Hebrew College Rabbinical Student Parashat Eikev Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 It rained nearly every day at camp in the Poconos Mountains last month. Sometimes a drizzle, sometimes a storm—and every time it rained, I marveled. Having spent nine months in Israel this past year, rain ended by February. I was yearning for a rainstorm to break the humidity in Tel Aviv this past June. But it never fell. I’ve had a fascination with rain since I first learned the... Read more

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2024-08-19T10:59:03-04:00

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A Yearning of the Heart

Last updated on: August 19, 2024 at 10:59 am By Hebrew College

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By Rabbi Avi Killip ’14 Parashat Vaetchanan Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Standing in line at the CVS pharmacy I pick up a diary from the spinning rack. The spiral-bound notebook calls itself The Prayer Map for Women: A Creative Journal. Each page presents a spread of fill-in-the-blank boxes with lines headed by prompts: “Dear Heavenly Father…” it opens,“Thank you for..” “Here’s what’s happening in my life…” “I need…” “People I am praying for today…” The prayer’s conclusion is written for you: “Amen.... Read more

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