Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. The story of the Tower of Babel speaks for itself: Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a valley in the […]

Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we move toward Shabbat. The story goes something like this:   A child approaches her parent and asks, “Where do I come from?” “Oh my gosh!” The parent thinks.  “This is the moment when my child wants to know about the ‘birds and the bees’!”  And so the […]

Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, a weekly reflection as we make our toward Shabbat and this week, Simchat Torah. It is said that the middle verse in the entire Torah is Leviticus 19:18. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.  The great rabbi of the Talmud (Shabbat 31a), Hillel, when asked to summarize the Torah, responded: […]

Welcome to Shabbat Awakenings, our weekly reflection as we make our way towards Shabbat and this week, the festival of Sukkot. You can listen to it as a podcast HERE. It is one of the most beautiful prayers with its soothing images and appears in the Sh’ma and Its Blessing section at the end in every […]