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Christian worship | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. Category Archives: Christian worship. Jews and Christians as the Theological Double Helix in Time. April 7, 2015. Suppose, however, that our shared history does have theological meaning; and suppose as well that we took it seriously together. How might we transform mutual animosities of the past into faithful commitment to the future? Take these days of counting in which we now find ourselves: the. In the past, we have each found it convenient t...
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congregational transformation | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. Category Archives: congregational transformation. April 19, 2015. Are you interested in launching a thoughtful conversation on what your congregation should be doing better? Most people are. But they don’t know how to begin. If you open the conversation with, How can we do better? General Rule # 1:. Conversations require conversational frames, a way to think about the issue at hand. Conversational frames should be. Not all topics require such ca...
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congregations | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. April 19, 2015. Are you interested in launching a thoughtful conversation on what your congregation should be doing better? Most people are. But they don’t know how to begin. If you open the conversation with, How can we do better? You get everyone’s favorite complaint something you have probably heard before. The conversation goes nowhere new. Conversations depend on the conversational frames that introduce them! General Rule # 1:. But the ques...
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. Newer posts →. Triskaidekophobia and the Jewish Condition. February 26, 2016. Jews have many oddities, but. Is not one of them. Is fear of the number 13 why hotels have no thirteenth floor, why airports omit Gate 13, and why some offices close on Friday the 13. Fear of Friday the 13. Specifically, incidentally, has its own name — p. A condition that is certainly not natively Jewish. Friday, after all, is. Ends with, Who knows 13? These attribute...
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transformation | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. April 19, 2015. Are you interested in launching a thoughtful conversation on what your congregation should be doing better? Most people are. But they don’t know how to begin. If you open the conversation with, How can we do better? You get everyone’s favorite complaint something you have probably heard before. The conversation goes nowhere new. Conversations depend on the conversational frames that introduce them! General Rule # 1:. But the ques...
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What Business Are We In? | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. Why We Study Sacrifices: A Happy Case of Collusion. From Great Sabbath to Great Seder: From Getting the Word Out to Getting the Message Through →. What Business Are We In? March 25, 2015. Synagogues should be asking, What business are we in? That may seem obvious, but it isn’t, and most synagogue leaders get it wrong with disastrous consequences. Religion may be what we. However; it is not our. The two are not the same. The Practice of Management.
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clergy leadership | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. Tag Archives: clergy leadership. April 19, 2015. Are you interested in launching a thoughtful conversation on what your congregation should be doing better? Most people are. But they don’t know how to begin. If you open the conversation with, How can we do better? General Rule # 1:. Conversations require conversational frames, a way to think about the issue at hand. Conversational frames should be. Not all topics require such careful considerati...
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synagogue leadership | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. Category Archives: synagogue leadership. April 19, 2015. Are you interested in launching a thoughtful conversation on what your congregation should be doing better? Most people are. But they don’t know how to begin. If you open the conversation with, How can we do better? General Rule # 1:. Conversations require conversational frames, a way to think about the issue at hand. Conversational frames should be. Not all topics require such careful con...
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When God Drops By | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. God and the Good, or What Good is God? Congregational Algebra →. When God Drops By. April 15, 2015. Sometimes you need a very good memory! You have to remember that the reading three weeks ago ended with Aaron and his sons (newly ordained as priests) having to wait seven days outside the desert sanctuary (the. But still: why only on the eighth day? The universe was apparently incomplete all those years, awaiting a final act of creation that even...
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Human Character and the Magnets of Time | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. Life and a Little Liturgy. Sinai in Columbus →. Human Character and the Magnets of Time. May 1, 2015. In 1864, with the Civil War approaching its long and bloody end, Abraham Lincoln took stock. “Human nature will not change,” he averred. “In any future great national trial, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.”. Physically, genetics deals us disparate hands: we are tall. A calendar is like the stretching of time across a plain, a...