Awakenings (Tu b’Shevat / Pre-Spring Edition)
By definition, awakening happens before we’re ready, and exactly on time. It’s Tu b’Shevat this weekend (Sunday evening, February 5), so we’re exactly on time.
Yom Kippur 2021: Our Forwarding Address
By Rabbi David Gut yontif on this Yom Kippur day of transformation. This year’s High Holy Day themes of strength, resilience, courage and daring all flow into today, when we can lift our lives – perhaps in just an instant – if only we’ll take the leap. Last Yom Kippur, I quoted …
Kol Nidre 2021: The Divine Light of Chutzpah
By Rabbi Shohama Gut yuntif, everyone! A good holiday! Our theme this year is overall strength – the different dimensions of strength that we need to power our moral and spiritual transformation. So far we have focused on resilience and heart-based courage to do the work of atonement and forgiveness. …
Rosh Hashanah 5782: Mustaches and Moral Injuries – Resilience in Divisive Times
By Rabbi David Shanah tovah. I hope your 5782 is dawning bright and strong. Last night we introduced our theme of strength …
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5782: Stronger Together
By Rabbi David Shanah tovah! Welcome to the High Holy Days 5782. May they bring sweet goodness and health for us, our …
Spiritual Theme for September: Stronger Together
By Rabbi David At this writing, Rosh Hashanah 5782 is just days away. It’ll be my 11th holiday cycle with TBE, and …
Spiritual Theme for August – Elul: In Between, Love and All
By Rabbi David On July 15, I saw the first Christmas tree in a retail store. Not that Christmas decor is likely …
Spiritual Theme for July: Our Power of “And”
By Rabbi David One common theme I’m hearing from many of us is the “split screen” feel of this time. It’s great …
This Fertile Fallow January: Preparing for Tu B’shevat (Sun. 1/31, 4:00pm)
Join us Sunday, January 31, at 4:00pm for a multi-media, multi-sensory multi-shul Tu B’Shevat seder celebrating the approach of spring, in our …
Yom Kippur 5781-2020 – This Plastic Hour: Love’s Forward Memory We Need Now
By Rabbi David Gut yontif on this Yom Kippur of loving connection, courage, vulnerability and forgiveness. These “love” themes of our High …