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Weekly spiritual wisdom to deepen our commitment to Judaism and the Jewish People.
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Unity Is in Our Hands (opens the original)
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Friends,A short thought before the holiday of Sukkot starts:The rabbis offer two reasons for the holiday: we sit in sukkot to remember the clouds of glory that sheltered our ancestors in the wilderness, or to remember the actual huts they built there. Either way, the holiday is deeply, deeply relevant to our lives.There is intimacy with God. One midrashic tradition imagines the sukkah as an embrace, God wrapping His arms around us in the days after the intensity of the High Holidays.There is gra
How to Fail Yom Kippur (opens the original)
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Shabbat-Friendly Print Link Have you heard of a pre-mortem? I learned the concept last year from a wise friend (hi N, in case you are reading). Before taking on a project or a mission, you have to ask: how will this fail? You draw out what failure would look like, in detail, and what would cause it. Only then can you plan to avoid it.I’ve been thinking about that idea in the lead-up to Yom Kippur. What would failure look like there? I'm not talking about the technical questions of the
The Dance of Teshuva: Rabbi Ebner’s High Holiday Reader (opens the original)
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Friends,Some years I feel ready for Rosh Hashana. Other years, less so. This is one of the less-so years: a new baby, coming back to work, a late start to the school year, the news around the world, and more, have left me feeling overwhelmed by the sheer mundane weight of it all.A good friend sent me a video of Slichot at the Kotel with Yishai Ribo, and I wanted to cry — because it was so beautiful, and because I wanted to be there, inside that spiritual high, instead of where I actually was. Th
The Problem is That Nessel Makes Sense (opens the original)
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Shabbat-Friendly Print LinkNitzavim, Michigan Politics, and the Fight Over Jewish Survival When Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel got up in front of a room of Jewish Democrats last weekend and told them they may need to sacrifice the safety, and even the future, of their own people in exchange for saving the rest of humanity, many of us were shocked, and for good reason. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$
Authenticity Is Overrated (opens the original)
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Shabbat-Friendly Print Link Professional update: Friends, I’m thrilled to share that I’m stepping into a new role as Dean of the Maimonides Jewish Leadership Institute at Maimonides Fund — a program that brings together accomplished leaders for Jewish learning, community, and connection at a moment when we need courageous leadership most. You can read more about this
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