Category Archives: Hihurim

Ḥanukkah, 2012 We find ourselves in a precarious position, to be trite – like the fiddler on the roof. A small Jewish community in a proportionately small rural county finds itself with many of its members and potential members coming from backgrounds not as firmly anchored in their Jewish heritage as the residents of proverbialContinue reading “Yagdil Torah w’Yadir”

Yom haKippooreem, 2019 I was asked, “Rabbi, what about compassion?” What about love? When we were a baby, we were all of hunger, all of physical need.  Our reality and existence were described by the unmitigated necessity of satisfying the drives of the infant body, the growing guf.  Yet still, in our distresses, the comfortContinue reading “The Final Gate”