Adonai my God Source of Life Thank you Thank you for this morning For waking up For sneaking out of the house while everyone else was still asleep For the cup of coffee I enjoyed on the way to the gym For the fact that my body didn’t rebel when I started […]
Prayer
The best thing about being a rabbi
Well, there are many “best things” when it comes to walking on the rabbinic path, but here’s one of them: Giving voice. There’s an old joke (grounded in some truth) that rabbis like to talk. But when I reflect on what I love most about being a rabbi, it isn’t the brilliant words that I’ve […]
#Pray– #BlogElul Day 16
#Pray means many things. Lately I’ve been listening to podcasts by Jack Kornfield. He’s a wise dude, plain and simple. Among the many recurring themes in his teachings is the idea of shooting energy from one place to another. There comes a point in the process of “sitting” when a person finds him or her […]
A prayer for peace
From Cincinnati to Zimbabwe, from the Pride Parade in Jerusalem to the West Bank– sickening violence mars our world. Horrific acts perpetuated by ordinary men, no different than you and I, except in their capacity and willingness to bring evil into the world. In that spirit here is a prayer for peace, written through the […]
I am here
I am here to grow. I am here to grow physically: to be able to accomplish things with my body that I couldn’t before. I am here to grow intellectually: to expand my mind and increase my ability to understand and make meaning. I am here to grow emotionally: to become a better friend, kinder […]
If there was no prayer
If there was no prayer There would be no pray-er There would be no Being Worth Praying To There would be no conversation No relationship or correlation No dialogue between the finite and the Infinite The broken and the Whole (or sometimes the Breaker). The soul and the Fountain from whose waters the soul first […]