Praise
- 5778, Days of Awe, Gemara, Haazinu, High Holidays, Interpretation, Listening, Liturgy, Midrash, Moses, New Year, Praise, Prayer, Rosh Hoshannah, Textual Criticism, Yamim Noraim, Yom Kippur
5778 Ways to Listen This Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Clearly I need to make some resolutions, like getting through the whole year on here…oh well, maybe after I finish coursework (this year!) you’ll see some improvements. But really –…
- Amalek, Beshalach, Birthday, Egypt, Exodus, Moses, Music, Parsha, Pesach, Pharaoh, Praise, Prayer, Red Sea, Redemption, Salvation, Shabbat Shira, Songs, Tu Bishvat
Just Keep Singing!
This is a good weekend. Today is my sister’s birthday, coinciding with Tu Bishvat and Shabbat Shirah. The weather is warm, like the world knows we should be celebrating this auspicious day. During…
- Annual Cycle, Blessing, Israel, Israelites, Moses, Nebo, Parsha, Praise, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, Tribe, Vzot haBrakhah
It’s Time to Dance!
It’s almost here – another year has gone by. Sukkot 5777 rushed by in Cincinnati with some rainy days, a definite chilling of the air, studying and learning, spending time with friends. Monday…
- Elijah, Gadol, Haftorah, Haggadah, Hebrew, Jerusalem, Liturgy, Malachi, Messiah, Nisan, Parsha, Pesach, Petition, Praise, Prayer, Return, Seder, Shabbat, Spring
The Greatest Shabbos of 5776
Tonight is Shabbat haGadol – the Great Shabbat, the Shabbat that falls just before Pesach. I guess that means this year is doubly great, since Pesach falls on Shabbos, too! Weeks of excitement…
- Adar, Exile, Exodus, Instructions, Josephus, Kings, Obedience, Parsha, Pekudei, Praise, Prayer, Psalms, Purim, Repetition, Tabernacle
Repeat After Me…
Truth be told, I’ve always kind of been intrigued by the repetition of instructions as the means of communicating completion. Instead of saying, “Yo, they did what G!d told them,” the reader is…
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, Death, Deuteronomy, Haazinu, Haftorah, Harvest, Hope, Journey, Land, Moses, Parsha, Poem, Praise, Prayer, Provision, Remember, Rock, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, Wilderness of Zin
Poems and Praise
It’s the middle of the week – and I want to talk about the parsha we’re still studying! Parashat Ha’azinu (Deuteronomy 32) is the next to last in the cycle – then comes…