The State of the Synagogue 5785
By President Lisa Eizen, Yom Kippur 5785 It is an honor for me to stand here and speak to you all on Yom Kippur. I want to wish you all L’Shanah Tovah. May you and your families have a year of good health, much happiness, and lasting peace. It has been a hard year for […]
Judy Lalli’s Al Het
Al Het By Judy Goldsmith Lalli Yom Kippur 2024/5785 For the sin of acting without thinking and For the sin of staying stuck in our heads For the sin of not doing more for others and For the sin of not doing more for ourselves For the sin of forgetting the past and For the sin of living […]
Frank Giorgilli’s Shofarot
Some Comments on Shofarot The two previous components, Malkhuyot and Zikhronot, dealt, respectively, with God’s majesty and with remembrance of the revelation at Sinai. In thinking about Shofarot, I went back to the beginning of our story – to Mount Moriah with Abraham and Isaac. Maybe I’m wrong but I would think that a ram […]
Stephen Cohen’s Malkhuyot
2nd Day Rosh Hashana 5785 A discussion on malkhuyot, God’s sovereignty, is part of the Rosh Hashana canon, as Talmud Rosh Hashana 16a:15 records. Rabbi Yehuda said in the name of Rabbi Akiva: וְאִמְרוּ לְפָנַי בְּרֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה מַלְכִיּוֹת זִכְרוֹנוֹת וְשׁוֹפָרוֹת V’imru l’fanai b’rosh hashana malkhiyot “And recite before Me on Rosh HaShana verses that mention […]
One Thing I Ask
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar This past week, as part of our celebrating our first Bat Mitzvah of the year (Mazal Tov, Madeleine Wilson!), I shared the following D’var Torah: In a few moments, we’re going to sing a verse of a psalm that anchors us in the season in which we find ourselves, […]