I’m happy to offer my first essay for MyJewishLearning.com’s weekly Recharge newsletter. In this one, I lean into the fear and the attraction of sitting inside our pain and sorrow. It felt timely.
Read morePartei Ergreifen ("Taking Sides" Translation)
A beautiful translation by Jamila Pape of “Taking Sides.”
Read moreTaking Sides
Taking the side of Peace.
Read moreA Chant for Peace
In an inability to find just the right prayer or song when our community gathered on Sunday morning, this chant came to me – just the word shalom, and music that I hope can help calm our aching, racing hearts and open us to a moment of breath (and tears).
Read moreDeath of Moshe; the Exhale After
At the end of Torah, Moshe dies, after much struggle and resistance. Torah seems to take a breath, a long exhale, as we roll back the scroll to the beginning. And so in our lives as well, the exhale after the long-anticipated death of anyone we love. The gasp, the exhale.
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