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My Lofty Guest (opens the original)
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There is a Jewish tradition during the festival of Sukkot where “Ushpizin,” Aramaic for guests, come to visit during the week long celebration, commemorated by us Jews since Biblical days. This idea dates back to the composition of the Zohar, a kabbalistic tract written in 13th century Spain; but the Zohar itself has its mythic authorial origins in the teachings of the first century sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a popular early mystic and intellectual opponent of the Roman Empire, which sacked J
Not As They Are (opens the original)
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Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not whyFor if the children of Israel were supposed to multiplyWhy must any of the children die? (Randy Newman, God’s Song)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G5sp!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s
Endure (opens the original)
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Today’s piece features a cameo from my dear friend Rabbi Mishael Zion, a brilliant teacher in Jerusalem. Mish recently launched a Substack about food which you really ought to read and enjoy! In a remembrance of his brother Bob who died in 1954 at age 41 in Vietnam after stepping on a landmine, Cornell Capa wrote in the introduction to Robert Capa: Photographs (out of print at Aperture but widely available second hand), “What he left beh
The Unbroken Circle (opens the original)
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My cousin calls me “Road Rabbi,” because he gets a kick out of the idea that I travel to serve. In the last few years I have visited communities in Sioux City, IA; Sioux Falls, SD and now for the last two years, for the Days of Awe and half the weekends of the year, I’m serving in Laconia, NH. Readers also know about my work with small towns in the Midwest as well as memorial projects in Belarus (when travel is allowed) and now Germany, in destroyed Jewish communities in those historic places. I
As the Sun Sets (opens the original)
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29 Elul 5786September 11, 2026Water Over Rocks is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.It is hard to make an
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