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 »

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 »

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.