Rabbi Tina Sobo We are commanded to dwell in Sukkot at this time of year. But why is it, that unlike all other Jewish dwellings, the sukkah does not have a mezuzah? On the 15th day of Tishrei, possibly with break the fast dinner feeling like it is still in our bellies from Yom Kippur, […]
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Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Noach, is a familiar one. Dismayed with humankind, God decided to start over. God instructed Noah and his family to build an ark before God flooded the earth. With a sampling of each species of animal upon the earth, Noah closed the doors of the ark behind him. In our minds’
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Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz Soon after it was published, Rabbi Tuling’s book, Thinking about God, was a fixture on my nightstand. I remember watching my youngest son, six at the time, pick it up and thumb through it. As he closed the book he stared intently at the cover, a beautiful celestial scene in midnight blue,
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Rabbi Tina Sobo Just a couple weeks ago, we restarted our annual cycle of Torah reading. After Adam and all the animals are created, Adam feels lonely, and we read God’s observation, “It is not good for adam to be alone.” We can read the Hebrew word adam as Adam’s name, or we can read
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Rabbi Tina Sobo As a child, Halloween was about dressing up, getting candy, and coming up withnew torturous swim practices in the name of Halloween “fun”. Good, clean, fall fun – right? For Jews, the answer might be a little more nuanced. The issue boils down to the prohibition for Jews to worship idols. As
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