God will wipe away the tears from all faces/ Isaiah 25/verse 8
Imagine, if our compassionate God created a colossal handkerchief to pat each and every tear-laden cheek with a love so capacious that...
Does God Long For Us?
At a recent retreat at Wildacres I had the privilege of learning Zohar with scholar, Rabbi Ebn Leader. The question the texts pondered:...
Love Revealed Herself
Thirty-six year old Gabriela walked into my office and darted toward the rust colored client’s couch. She sobbed uninterrupted for five...
My Ethiopian Roommate
Bizu Rikki Mullu is part of a group known as Beta Israel, a community of Jews who developed 500 small villages in Northern Ethiopia....
I Kept Her Alive
Several weeks ago, I officiated at Jacqueline’s funeral. She was 83 and in hospice at the time of her passing. Her son, Daniel, is the...
The Return of a Lost Object: 60 years later
The Torah commands us to return lost objects. Returning a lost object is one of the 613 commandments. When I was sixteen, my parents gave...
Walk On
The four of us walked in memory of Helen, a 49 year-old mother, wife, daughter, aunt, friend. My neighbor’s daughter. In 2023, an...
The Uber Hamsa
The blue Hamsa hung from his dashboard so I had to ask. “Tell me about the Hamsa.” “Oh” he said, “A very special woman gave it to me...
The Eternity of Preparation
If you read the Torah literally, one would surmise that it took God seven days to create the entire world. However, from a scientific...
Preparing for Re-Creation
We last wrote to each other in July 2020. The world shut down a few months before (March 2020) and, frankly, so did I. The Covid pause...
