Archive for April 2026

GAINESVILLE Look around you for a moment. Really look. To your left, to your right, in front of you and behind you — there are people who were, not long ago, strangers to one another. Some of you are brand new to Shir Shalom, still learning where we keep the siddurs and which place in…

It is the eighth day after the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, has been completed. The whole community is in a state of euphoria. Not long ago, they were slaves in Egypt. Now they are guardians of the Torah and have a physical representation of God in their midst with the Ark and the Tent of Meeting.…

In the past couple of weeks, we were immersed in one thing in our Torah calendar: the sacrifices, the korbanot which were brought every day to the Tabernacle or, later on, the Temple. The descriptions of the korbanote, you will recall, were the meat of worship – pun intended.  But this week, on Chol HaMoed…