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Really a Rav : Perspective is Everything
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Sunday, July 6, 2014. This past Friday evening - July 4th - I gave my first drash. At Temple de Hirsch Sinai in Seattle. It was awesome. I'm sharing it here with all of you and look forward to sharing many more sermons, divrei Torah. And life musings in the future:. The father of one of my closest friends has a blog he updates fairly often, titled “ Perspective is Everything. Living with a Disability … What a Blessing. Cup runneth over.”. How we choo...
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Really a Rav : Dvarim: Telling our Stories
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Sunday, August 3, 2014. Dvarim: Telling our Stories. Kabbalat Shabbat – Parshat D’varim. August 1, 2014. Raise your hand if you know the name of the first female rabbi ever. If you answered Sally Priesand, well … good guess, but she’s not it. That title – that honor,. Belongs to Regina Jonas. Has anyone ever heard that name – Regina Jonas? Rabbi Regina Jonas was ordained in Germany in the year … 1935. Story It is your. The creation of new, liberal sy...
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Really a Rav : December 2013
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Tuesday, December 17, 2013. Am I allowed to grieve, though I did not know him? Am I allowed to feel the pain of such a horrific loss, even though I was not present at that funeral? Can I mourn from afar, through a computer screen, though I never met Sam, or his parents, or his beautiful young siblings, face-to-face? Raise my voice in support of this family, and the countless others fighting for increased funding of pediatric cancer research. 36 Rabbi...
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Really a Rav : August 2014
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Sunday, August 3, 2014. Dvarim: Telling our Stories. Kabbalat Shabbat – Parshat D’varim. August 1, 2014. Raise your hand if you know the name of the first female rabbi ever. If you answered Sally Priesand, well … good guess, but she’s not it. That title – that honor,. Belongs to Regina Jonas. Has anyone ever heard that name – Regina Jonas? Rabbi Regina Jonas was ordained in Germany in the year … 1935. Story It is your. The creation of new, liberal sy...
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Really a Rav : October 2013
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Thursday, October 31, 2013. Today was definitely the shot in the arm each of us needed after yesterday. It was like a straight-up "hope" cocktail, served with a side of calm. The center offers various programs for children and adults that focus on one core thing. One might see it as incredibly simple but it is actually tremendously complex: relationships. We learn over and over how it's all about relationships. And yet, here is this grassroots or...
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Really a Rav : March 2014
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Sunday, March 16, 2014. The past two weeks, I've been neither here nor there. I'm physically in Los Angeles . in the apartment that has become our home three miles from the ocean. It's filled with so much stuff. How do we physically amass so much stuff? But also memories. Remnants of celebrations past. The classy loot we were gifted in the months before, during, and after our wedding. Things. And photos. So many photos. But those questions must remai...
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Really a Rav : September 2014
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Monday, September 8, 2014. And here is the D'var Torah I delivered this past Saturday, September 6, the 11th of Elul 5774:. I’ve never, ever been good with this time of year. There’s something about the way the weather changes and the smells shift; the vision of children heading off to their first days of a new school year. Are, preparing for a new year. And unsettled at this time of year. My Jewish soul – my neshama –. 8211; is a time in which we b...
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Really a Rav : Embracing Elul
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Monday, September 8, 2014. And here is the D'var Torah I delivered this past Saturday, September 6, the 11th of Elul 5774:. I’ve never, ever been good with this time of year. There’s something about the way the weather changes and the smells shift; the vision of children heading off to their first days of a new school year. Are, preparing for a new year. And unsettled at this time of year. My Jewish soul – my neshama –. 8211; is a time in which we b...
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Really a Rav : January 2014
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Monday, January 20, 2014. Wading in the Pool of Mindfulness. A few weeks ago I was talking with Rabbi Jill Zimmerman. About how psycho-busy this time in my life is. She stopped me and said, "you have to come to this mindfulness retreat I'm doing in a few weeks.". No way," I responded. "I've got X on my plate and Y on my plate, I've got this thing and that thing and then I've got to think about W and Z. And oh, don't forget about A, B, and C! I hadn't...
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Really a Rav : November 2013
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Reflections and Musings from My First Year as a Rabbi. Saturday, November 30, 2013. This past Sunday I had the kavod,. The honor, of conducting the funeral of one of my mother-in-law's best friends, Helen. First, let me be clear: Sunday wasn't about me. Sunday was about being a kli kodesh -. Janis Joplin fan) and eventually left the cemetery to return to our lives. Though we've concluded it's particularly challenging to evaluate oneself, I think that this funeral - as a life cycle event - really did "wor...
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