I’m in the midst of a 3 day seminar on “Service Learning” lead by Cathryn Berger Kaye. We’re covering a lot of ground and the entire experience might best be summarized as a “feast of inspiration.” Today we took a deeper dive into the topic of reflection. Kaye argues, persuasively (and to an admittedly sympathetic crowd), […]
Daily Life
Daily Miracles
Either you believe in miracles or you don’t. If you don’t, you’ve got to be prepared to explain all of the miraculous things, small and large, that happen every day. And you have to explain them without using the words: miracle and miraculous. If you do believe in miracles then you’ve got less explaining to […]
What was prayerful for me today?
In the spirit of continuing to identify what prayer, prayerfulness, and spirituality mean to me, I’m trying to pause and reflect on the question, “What was prayerful for me today?” The only thing that’s tricky doing this in the context of a blog is my willingness to honestly answer this question as well as feeling […]
What was prayerful for me today?
1) Our final Jewish music meeting of the year. Working with two remarkably capable and passionate people who have a high level of respect and commitment coupled with a sense of humor and ability to embrace the fact that our shared area of concern is a work in progress. 2) The 5th grade class that […]
Jewish Jeopardy
The Jewish internet erupted when a Jeopardy champion botched a Final Jeopardy Question that would’ve been pretty easy/ridiculously easy for most American Jews. Here’s an article that links to the video. While it’s quite funny and gracefully handled on the show, it also is a good reminder of the fact that knowledge is culturally embedded. […]
Making room for Shabbat
Behold our dining room table: Tonight we pushed back some of the stuff of daily life to make room for Shabbat. Hence our dining room table is 1/2 Shabbat and 1/2 the stuff of daily life. Two kids, two jobs, Amazon prime, birthday party supplies, unpacking from recent Israel trip: the […]