Rabbi’s Writings
Something Old and Something New!
It’s Friday evening and it’s been a long week: challenges at work, shuttling the kids around to their activities, managing crises big and small, and simply dealing with the every day balancing act of life. Sounds pretty normal, right? And then comes Shabbat; a beautiful, age-old Jewish gift of rest and renewal that comes prepackaged […]
An Attitude of Gratitude
Imagine a law that goes something like this: On the last Thursday of November each year at evening, you, and your spouse and children, shall appear before your extended family for a feast of thanksgiving to the Lord. When you arrive you shall ring the buzzer with your elbow. (Why? You wouldn’t come empty-handed would […]
But the Jewish Spirit Cannot Be Broken
But the Jewish Spirit Cannot Be Broken Just this past week, the Jewish community observed the 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” This organized action attacking the Jewish communities across Germany marked a turning point for German Jewry. One of the main items on Adolf Hitler’s agenda for Europe was ridding the […]
Pittsburgh and New Beginnings by Rabbi David Aladjem
Moving words offered by Rabbi David Aladjem at Shabbat services on the anniversary of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life murders.
Pointing Your Feet Up the Mountain — The Mussar Path to Wholeness and Holiness
As long as we are alive, we are never truly finished. Day after day, we are learning, growing, changing. We can’t help it, whether we are rabbis or not. Whether we like it or not. Life is a process of transformation.
Passover 2009
Shining a New Light on Passover Beginning early Wednesday morning, April 8th, when the first rays of sunlight peak out from behind the hills, as most of us are still dreaming of the grand spring festival of freedom–Passover–that begins that night, Jews around the world will also observe an occurrence in nature that happens only […]
