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Ben Azzai Trun to do even a slight mitzv
Ben Azzai Trun to do even a slight mitzvah and flee from transgression for one good deed inspires another and one sin another sin. #Torah
A Mother’s Day Tribute to Mothers and Jewish Values
Please read my Mother’s day Tribute to my mom, Estelle Eger published below: Please click on the link! A Mother’s Day Tribute to Mothers and Jewish Values.
Debt Release is an ancient concept
Parsaht Behar Leviticus 25:1-26:2 This week’s Torah portion Behar is timely indeed. Its focus is on the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee year. With the European elections that have taken place and the reaction to the growing debts and austerity programs to fix that debt, we are reminded that our ancestors had a regular and…Read more »
Obama affirms “same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
Today President Barak Obama came forward to affirm marriage equality for Gay and Lesbian Couples! Thank you. I know that in a heated race for President this was not an easy one (although LGBT activists have wanted you to affirm this for many years!). But as you ran on Hope and Change as your themes…Read more »
DNA links prove Jews are a ‘race,’ says genetics expert – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
This is an amazing story about a new book on the DNA of Jews. There really is something that makes us a family! Read on. DNA links prove Jews are a ‘race,’ says genetics expert – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.
Thoughts on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Ordination of Women Rabbis
As published today here on the Reform Judaism Blog: Thoughts on Celebrating the Ordination of Rabbi Sally Priesand by Rabbi Denise L. Eger On this 40th anniversary of Rabbi Sally Priesand’s ordination, I am reflecting on the impact of that moment on our own Reform Judaism, the larger Jewish world and the implications on my own life.…Read more »
Emor and the 1992 LA Riots
Parshat Emor Leviticus 21:1-24:23 This past week we observed the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots. Our city burned as the anger about the Rodney King verdicts reached a fever pitch, absolving the white police officers from using police brutality against Rodney King. Even though before our very eyes the grainy black and white…Read more »
Bring out your Unconscious Desire
Omer blessing today for day 26 – it is a day of hod shebnetzach. Hod sits opposite Netzach on the Tree of Life. Both are the feet-bringing a person to action. Hod is also the place of where form is given language and Netzach is the place of our unconscious desire. Today is the day…Read more »
Beautiful Shabbat
Shabbat Shalom World. Day of Beauty-tiferet, Day of Above all other days! Malchut sheb’tiferet. Ruling in beauty. That is today. Twenty days of the Omer. Sweet Shabbat most beautiful of other days-day of union and rest and renewal.