Archive for September 2026
The Regret that Connects: A Shabbat Shuva Reflection on Hosea 14
September 18, 2026Congregation B’nai Israel: Boca Raton There is a Hassidic story about a Jew who kept a tavern in a small village had, over the years, quietly fallen away from Torah observance. Business was business, and the demands of running the tavern — open late, serving all kinds of customers — had worn down…
Read MoreShards of Regret & Shards of Light
Second Day Rosh Hashanna Congregation B’nai Israel – Boca 2026 In my first year of rabbinic school, I found myself in the bottom of 30 foot hole digging in an archeological ruin in Israel. My discoveries were hardly earth-shattering although my partner and I found a floor of the very earliest Cannanite dwelling in Tel…
Read MoreB’reishit: The Beginning We Carry, The Beginning We Build. RH Morning 2026 – Boca
Whenever I am back in Toronto visiting my parents’ grave, there are places that continue to draw me in no matter how many times I have been there. My old primary school. Junior high. High school. The temple I grew up in. All the places that were formative throughout my life. And the moment I’m…
Read MoreSteel, Smoke, and Chesed: A Prayer for Twenty-Five Years – Erev Rosh Hashanna 25 Years after 9/11
How many of us remember where we were 25 years ago today? Twenty-five years is long enough that some of you weren’t even born yet, and long enough that some of us have to reach back through a quarter century of mornings to find that one morning again — but find it we do, don’t…
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