Making True Peace is Not About Being Silent – By Barbara Heller
Sometime in mid-Av, 5777 or July of 2017, I found myself walking and sweating profusely in the streets of Tiberias (Northern Israel) and I sat down to write the following […]
Category Archives: Holidays
We Are SO NOT In Control… The Humbling Power Of Humility – By Marc
“Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.” Some may remember a take on this quote from Willy Wonka […]
Tisha B’Av, A Day To Really Connect To Our Sadness – By Marc
I am posting today, in anticipation of Tisha B’Av starting this evening. The word holiday implies a celebration. In Europe, you go ON Holiday (here, we call it vacation). So […]
3 Weeks, 9 Days, and 1 Hell of a Fast (Devarim) — By Ben
So I’ve been in Israel a little over two weeks now. Due to an unpredictable set of circumstances I’ve decided to study in a Yeshiva for 3 months. The dorms […]
Shavuos – Letting Yourself Ask for Help — By Ben
I’ve worked in restaurants on and off since college. The job can be tremendously stressful, hectic, and in the midst of the dinner rush, can feel like war. Imagine that 3 […]
Hod. The Link between Pesach Sheni, Lag B’Omer, and Manna from Heaven. – By Ben
We’re in a really odd time right now in the Jewish calendar. Between Pesach and Shavuos is a what’s known as the counting of the Omer. For 49 days we count each […]
Trauma, Yom Hashoah, and The Zookeeper’s Wife — By Ben
As we observed Yom Hashoah this past week, we had a special opportunity to look back at what we have lost, who we have lost, and how we as the […]
Keeping Count – The Omer, Remembering And Becoming One – By Marc
Today is Day 14 in our Counting Of The Omer. But what is it? On the second night of Passover we begin the mitzvah of Sefirat HaOmer. Thus it is a commandment from the […]
We’re All 10s!!! (10 Plagues, 10 Attributes, 10 Commandments) – By Marc
This will be the last post before the holiday of Pesach… so Chag Sameach… Enjoy… Eat Matzoh. In last week’s post, Ben wrote about how the plagues were divided into […]
Pesach – So We Left Egypt. Who Cares? — By Ben
As we prepare to celebrate Pesach, we once again return to the story of how God took our ancestors out of Egypt. We’ll do the two seders, abstain from chometz, […]
Six Degrees Of Kosher Bacon 