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Rosh Hashanah | 2026.09.10 (opens the original)
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This evening we sharpen the question of why we don't blow Shofar when the first day of Rosh Hashanah is Shabbat (like this year), adding to the difficulty in three levels. Then we present an approach based on the novel "Paradise" by Toni Morrison. The motto, "Beware the Furrow of His Brow" is what we refer to as proclaiming God as Melech, the sovereign whose laws must be fulfilled, while taking no chance for a mistake. According to Rabbi Meilech Biderman, the Tifrach bus driver learned this less
Before Rosh Hashanah Asks Anything of You, Remember This | 10@9 | 2026.09.10 (opens the original)
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Rosh Hashanah asks us to have some difficult conversations with God - about accountability, expectations, disappointments, and the people we hope to become in the year ahead. But Judaism doesn't send us into those conversations cold. First comes Ellul. The letters of Ellul are famously understood as an acronym for Ani L'Dodi V'Dodi Li - "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine." Before Rosh Hashanah confronts us with judgment and accountability, Ellul gives us an entire month to establish some
Don’t Believe the Warning. But Don’t Ignore It. | 10@9 | 2026.09.09 (opens the original)
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Why do we still fast over the assassination of Gedalyah more than 2,500 years later? After the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of most of the Jewish People, Gedalyah was appointed governor over the small Jewish population that remained in the Land of Israel. His murder by another Jew was not only a political assassination - its aftermath led to the collapse of that remaining Jewish community and an even more complete rupture between the Jewish People and their Land. But Gedalya
Why Do We Throw Our Sins Into the Sea? | 10@9 | 2026.09.08 (opens the original)
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On Rosh Hashanah, we go to a body of flowing water and recite the words of the prophet Michah, asking God to cast our sins into the depths of the sea. What exactly are we asking God to do? Surely we cannot simply throw away what we have done. The Torah reading for the first day of Rosh Hashanah offers an answer. In the story of Hagar and Yishmael, Rashi highlights the principle of Ba'asher Hu Sham - God judges a person as he is now, in this moment. Our past matters. We remain accountable for our
What If Prayer Sounded More Like You? | 10@9 | 2026.09.07 (opens the original)
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Prayer doesn't always have to sound like what we think prayer is supposed to sound like. I wish I prayed more often in my own words - informally, intimately, directly to God, saying what I actually think and feel. Three very different writers help me imagine what that might sound like: Rainer Maria Rilke, wondering not only what we need from God but what we might offer God; Regina Spektor, speaking to God with both intimacy and struggle; and Hanna Yerushalmi, expressing the extraordinary feeling
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