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By Rabbi David Shanah tovah! Welcome, all you beautiful souls, to our year 5780 – may it be sweet and full of goodness. Tonight we come together to reaffirm Jewish life – for community, continuity and comfort. We come together to make common cause in our world of awesome beauty and, yes, …
By Rabbi David Each year at this season, a moment comes when I lose my sense of time and place. Instead of feeling like Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat Shuvah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot or Simchat Torah, my sense of time jumbles. Suddenly I feel all of them at once. Maybe it’s the changing sunlight. Maybe it’s the season’s disruption of routines, …
By Rabbi David Here’s a summary of the Jewish spiritual journey through late October. It starts now (yes, really). To show why it makes sense to start now, let’s take this journey in reverse. Simchat Torah links endings to beginnings and reboots the spiritual year with Creation. Why are we ready for …
The carnage of Saturday, October 27, at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, was the most fatal assault on a Jewish …
Dear TBE Members and Friends: News has traveled quickly about Saturday’s horrific shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. …
By Rabbi Shohama Good Yuntif, everyone. It’s so good to see you. And seeing – you, me, God, and how we live, …
By Rabbi David Here’s a radical idea that I wish weren’t radical: if you consistently feel nothing in the Jewish community, it’s …
By Rabbi David It’s just a few weeks until Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish season of teshuvah (repentance, repair, return) is upon us. …
By Rabbi David If art and beauty are in the eye of the beholder, then what about spirituality and especially communal spirituality? …
Dear Members and Friends of Temple Beth El: “For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven” …
