Tag: God
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Warning Bells
Having discussed sacred structures in last week’s portion, the Torah this week turns to sacred fashion. After elaborately describing the materials and construction of the Tabernacle, the portable building that is to serve as the worship space and community center for the Israelites as they make their way through the desert, the Torah describes the…
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The Famous Torah Verse You are Remembering Wrong, and What It Can Teach Us For This Moment
The famous story of the Exodus is what we are reading in the Torah this week, as Moses confronts Pharaoh to demand the liberation of the Israelites. After having been called by God at the Burning Bush, Moses joins with his brother Aaron to demand the release of their people from slavery. Each time they…
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Joseph Ate Alone
In the climatic moment of the Joseph story that we read this week in our Torah reading, Joseph reveals himself to his brothers. The man the brothers thought was the vizier of Egypt—the government official who was in charge of food distribution during a great famine—turned out to be the brother they had sold into…
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From Loneliness to Belonging (Erev Yom Kippur 5785)
The story of Noah is one of those stories that as kids is really fun and exciting, and then when you read it as an adult, it sits much more heavily on the heart. Noah is a great story, the stuff of legend. God decides to destroy the world after witnessing humanity engaging in evil…
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Kol Nidre 5777: “The God Participle”
You can listen to the audio of the sermon here: Since this is the evening of confession. I am going to confess something tonight. It’s a theological confession. While I am rooted in one particular religious tradition, and I am open to interfaith engagement and spiritual exploration, there is one place where I get stuck.…
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Clouds, God and Harold Ramis z’l
This week’s Torah reading (parasha Pikudei) brings us to the end of the book of Exodus. After the communal journey of the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery, through the Red Sea, to Mount Sinai where they received the Torah, the book of Exodus ends on a very private note-Moses himself assembling the Tabernacle. After the…
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God in Moore, God in War
This week we watch once again as a community has been visited by the destructive force of nature. The tornado which touched down on Moore, OK caused upwards of $2 billion in damages, destroyed about 1,200 homes, injured almost 400 and killed 24, several of them children. As Hurricane Sandy did for the eastern seaboard…
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