Royal Autocracy

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On December 6, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. Listen to it as a podcast HERE. Kings do not need to testify. They don’t need to judge or be judged. Mishnah Sanhedrin 2:2 clearly stated this allowance. Deuteronomy allowed kings to keep many horses but not many wives, lest his heart go astray. […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On November 29, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. Over the summer as I prepared to write my Rosh Hashanah sermon on antisemitism, I started down the path of examining how the idea of the often used phrases of “good for the Jews” and “bad for the Jews” is employed. I […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On November 22, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. Listen to it as a podcast HERE. God had instructed Abraham to take his son, Isaac, up the mountain and present him as a burnt offering (Genesis 22: 2-3). If an angel of the Divine had not intervened, Abraham might have had to bury […]

Posted by Guest Author
On November 20, 2019
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Posted by Elaine Zecher
On November 15, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. Listen to it as a podcast HERE. How might it be possible for the spirit of welcoming to be an antidote to loneliness? This week’s Torah portion might offer some clues. Before we turn to the story of how Abraham behaved when he welcomed […]

Posted by Elaine Zecher
On November 8, 2019
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Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way toward Shabbat. Listen to it as a podcast HERE. We often recommend the restaurant where we recently dined, which doctor we saw, what movie we liked, and even where to vacation. We rave about it. Our enthusiasm helps to convince another where to go […]

TI Rises Up for Healing with GBIO

Posted by Guest Author
On November 7, 2019
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Posted by Elaine Zecher
On October 18, 2019
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Welcome again to “Shabbat Awakenings!” Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our way to Shabbat and this week, to Simchat Torah. Listen to Shabbat Awakenings as a podcast HERE The Torah is not a book. The dictionary defines a book as a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together […]

Posted by Jen Gubitz
On October 11, 2019
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Grief and memory hold hands as broken-hearted we find our way through the Jewish year. Grief and memory hold hands as we search for solace, as we travel from impermanence to joy, from narrowness to freedom, to wisdom and learning, to renewal and return. Such that when we return to them in this moment of […]

Posted by Jen Gubitz
On October 11, 2019
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“I saw your vagina ad. Yuck,” the email read, “was that really necessary?” The criticism came rolling in. And why? In response to a sign that was bold, bright, hip, and funky, plastered on kiosks throughout the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan that read: “Even if you think kugel is an exercise you […]

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Adult

Youth

Royal Autocracy

Bad for America

Belonging

View from the Cemetery

Loneliness and Hospitality

Rave

TI Rises Up for Healing with GBIO

Like No Other Moment in the Year

Grief and Memory Hold Hands

Provocative Kugel: What Will I Make of My Life Today?