INTRODUCTION
In advance of the Aquarian Minyan’s 36 th anniversary celebration Shabbaton at Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley on June 25-26-27, 2010, Rabbi Diane Elliot asked me to prepare something for the Friday night service of 8 to 10 minutes duration. As it is my custom to give over a few words on the parashah at such times, I wrote the following midrash.
I introduced it by …
For Gerry,
athlete and scholar,
my first teacher in baseball
“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.”
Deuteronomy 28:3
“Baseball is good for ya, little reuben.” – Cinquefoil,
in Chapter 18 of Michael Chabon’s Summerland
My friend Shelley, a couples and family counselor, once told me about an experience he had …
The convergence of Passover in 1943 with two other significant events
- a scientific discovery made in Basel and a civilian uprising in Warsaw -
draws the author into pondering their connections.
Yom Shishi , 11 Nisan, 5767 / Friday, March 30 th , 2007
As I began preparing for Passover last week, I recalled that we are in the midst of twin …
“We resonate with the parashah, whether we know it or not, whether we read it or not. It’s an underlying structure of reality that all Jews resonate with. – Arlene Goldbard, in the name of Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, z’l
Torah tzivu lanu Moshe, morasha kehillat Ya’akov
(The Torah that Moses transmitted to us
is the heritage of the community of Jacob)
Devarim, 33:4 …