drasha, shabbat Rabbi Noa Kushner 5/8/20 drasha, shabbat Rabbi Noa Kushner 5/8/20

Midnight

Parashat Emor

No matter how faint the fire gets -- even if we tried to extinguish it, the fire within each of us does not go out, it cannot go out.

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Reset

Parashat Achrei Mot-Kedoshim

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Waking Up Is Hard To Do

Parashat Tazria-Metzora

The holiest places are within our reach but we cannot enter them because we are half asleep

And we are afraid to even admit we let things get this far

and so we pretend the country is better than it is,

we pretend all kinds of shiny objects are stars,

so we don’t have to wake up.

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shabbat Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh 4/18/20 shabbat Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh 4/18/20

Sanctifying Time

Parashat Shemini

In fact, in Hebrew, each day of the week doesn’t have it’s own name. ...Every day is a countdown to Shabbat—the only day of the week that has her own name. And this isn’t because all of the other days of the week are insignificant. But rather that we count up to the day when our soul is heightened, are spirits are moved, a day where the air feels different because we treat it differently.

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The Simple Question

Parashat Tzav

As we consider moments like the one we are living through now -- 'Mah zot?' / 'What is this?' --

seems to be not only the right question, it is the only question.

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shabbat Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer 3/20/20 shabbat Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer 3/20/20

Toward the Center

Parashat Vayak’hel-Pekudei

What is at the center? What’s in the Holy of Holies? This enclosed space measured in handbreadths, not in square feet? It is the beginning of divine communication. You could call it our DNA.

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The Torah of Unknowing

Parashat Ki Tissa

The unknown may be a starting point for everything that doesn’t yet have a name.

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shabbat Rabbi Noa Kushner 2/21/20 shabbat Rabbi Noa Kushner 2/21/20

Visiting Paradise

Parashat Mishpatim

So this week, I was thinking about, how after it is all over --

I was thinking about how Eve and Adam never try to get back in to Eden.

I was wondering about that.

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