Bamidbar/Numbers Chapter 20 is bookended by the deaths of Moses’ siblings, Miriam and Aaron. In between, Moses hits the rock to get it to bring forth water, and God tells both him and Aaron that they won’t enter the Promised Land with the people. The Israelites...
Today is May 4, which should have been my father’s 91st birthday. Instead, just weeks before his 77th, he died suddenly following what we assume was a heart attack. Twelve hours after he was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead, we received a call from the “organ...
Early voting has begun in New York, and I imagine in many other states as well. Even though I’m not affiliated with a party, I’m being inundated with postcards and mail from the various candidates running for various offices in our town and county. They go right into...
Rabbi David Wolpe, in “Teaching Your Children About God,” wrote the following: “A woman once stood before God, her heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. “Dear God,” she cried out, ‘look at all the suffering, the anguish, and distress in your world....
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5786 As I was walking on the platform of the Malverne train station recently, I noticed a sign for a suicide hotline that said, “Your pain is real. So is hope.” We’re here this evening on the cusp of a new year, of 5786, hoping to be inscribed in...
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