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Deep Dive into Chanukah!
This Friday marks Rosh Chodesh Kislev, a month that is both the darkest and brightest month in the year. We move from our month free of holidays (Cheshvan) into winter and our celebration of Chanukah. This year, Chanukah aligns with winter solstice. Just as we move into the darkest nights of the year, we bring the brightness and joy of Chanukah with each additional candle we light over eight nights. Just in time, my Deep Dive into Chanukah begins next week! This three part stand-alone class series will uncover history, ritual and of course, music. Did you know that there are four main interpretations of why we celebrate Chanukah? The Chanukah story changed over time and its original intent is actually quite different from what we celebrate today. Join me and learn about how religion and politics shaped our early Jewish history and the celebration of Chanukah. How Many Candles Do We Light Anyway? We will uncover Chanukah rituals, the history of the dreidle, and learn why we add … [Read more...]
The Memes of 200 CE: Teachings of Pirkei Avot
This may very well be one of the biggest memes of the Jewish world: If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? — Pirkei Avot 1:14 (You can even find this teaching in the entrance hall to Atlanta’s Mercedes Benz Stadium!) If you’ve been on social media even a little bit throughout this pandemic, you’ve become well versed in the less holy category of internet “memes” that cover a variety of topics: from making light of a hard situation, to offering inspiration, critique, and sometimes just something completely random to get our minds off of everything else going on in the world. Memes have been floating around the internet well before the pandemic, but I feel like I see them more and more in my newsfeeds. But I’d like to draw our attention to a Jewish text that I’ve always thought had a slight parallel to “meme” culture (but obviously far more holy). The parallel is that the text offers tangible, relatable, and quick teachings for … [Read more...]
Protect us from illness…
For most of us, our time and attention this week is focused on the evolving realities of the Coronavirus, and how it is effecting our daily lives, our near-future plans, and the health and safety of our loved ones. Clearly inconveniences and disappointments, some of them very real, are right next to feelings of acute concern, and even fear. For many of us, appropriate social distancing and organizational caution are necessary steps to take to be as protected as we are able to be. As a rabbi, and as a Jew, my authentic response (in addition to trying to be ‘smart’ about exposure) is to turn to prayer. The mistake that many make is to automatically hear the word ‘prayer’ and dismiss it as an idiom for ‘doing nothing’. To the contrary, I mean ‘prayer’ as an active, intentional attempt to express myself as being in relationship with The Divine. The famous adage from World War II is that there are “no atheists in the foxholes,” meaning, that when things are tough, people are more able … [Read more...]
Echoes through Time
On every flight to Israel that I’ve ever been on the entire plane breaks out into applause upon landing. Why is that? The only other instance that I’ve seen an airplane full of people applaud like this is when the pilot touches us down after a truly hazardous flight full of fear and turbulence. It seems as if we clap out of gratitude for being delivered from danger to safety. When this happens, are we clapping for the pilot? For The Divine? For ourselves and the lives that we still get to live? Maybe all three… The sounds of our hands earnestly coming together in a brief staccato burst are, in a fashion, a spontaneous prayer by a large group of total strangers who share only a departure point, but ultimately, a destiny together. Like these bumpy flights that make us catch our breath, when we vigorously clap our hands together upon every arrival in Tel Aviv, are we too, (those who understand the origins of our long Jewish journey), engaging in some sort of primal prayer with our … [Read more...]
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