Posts tagged ‘Life of Torah’

Jew against Jew, Revised

This is a prayer for Jews to love each other and not to commit acts of violence against one another. It is part lament and part…

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Emor: Your Name: Meditation at Dusk

In Parashat Emor, in one amazing line, we are given twin injunctions: one against profaning G-d’s name (chillul hashem) and the other to sanctity G-d’s name…

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Jew against Jew

This is a prayer for Jews to love one another. I wrote it a year ago, but it echoes as a response to the violence perpetrated…

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Vayetze 5775: Messengers among Us

Is it possible to recognize an angel, a messenger of G-d? How would I know? Angels appear at the beginning and the end of this week’s…

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Vayeira: Messengers

“And Adonai appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he (Avraham) was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day; and he…

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Cry, No More

This prayer is about having compassion for ourselves while repairing the damage we’ve done to self and others. I wrote it after my first Yom Kippur in…

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Awake You Slumberers!

“Awake, ye sleepers from your slumber, and rouse you from you from your lethargy. Scrutinize your deeds and return in repentance.” – רמב”ם Are you awake?…

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Let Torah

The Torah is waiting for you. Not just to study it. Not just to know it. To live it. This is the latest in a series…

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Messengers

This is a prayer about those people we meet along the way who are reminders of how G-d wants us to live, with outstretched hands and…

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