by susan-adm1n | Feb 16, 2023 | Midrash HaZak
Shemini- Forging a Path Forward Rabbi David Levin “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…” (If, by Rudyard Kipling) How do I handle competing demands? What do I require for myself, and what do my obligations...
by susan-adm1n | Jan 24, 2023 | Midrash HaZak
Bo: Telling Our Story, Enhancing our Senses Rabbi Sue Live Elwell When we turn to the texts that have accompanied many throughout the days of their lives, we look for directional signs that may be useful to us as we navigate our final days and years. As we age, we...
by susan-adm1n | Jan 18, 2023 | Midrash HaZak
Emor: Questioning The Status Quo Dr. Betsy Stone I am fascinated by this parsha, with its juxtaposition of HOLY days and UNHOLY people. Emor begins by telling us how a Kohen may be defiled/ritually impure–by visiting a graveyard, shaving parts of their heads or...
by susan-adm1n | Dec 21, 2022 | Midrash HaZak
Miketz: Preparing for Life’s Journey Rabbi Dayle Friedman In Parashat Miketz, we encounter Joseph as a person growing in wisdom. For the third time in his life, he is moved to interpret a pair of dreams. As a youth, Joseph reports two dreams in which he is a...
by susan-adm1n | Nov 14, 2022 | Midrash HaZak
Naso, The Blessings of Living and Giving: Y’varechecha as a Guide Cantor Deborah Katchko Gray Hearing my father, Cantor Theodore Katchko of blessed memory, sing the Y’varechecha, the Priestly Blessing at the end of every Friday evening service, began my love...
by susan-adm1n | Oct 16, 2022 | Midrash HaZak
Photo: Rabbi Susan Elkodsi, The Peak of Mt. Philo, VT The Final Chapter: What Moses can Teach Us about End of Life Dr. Ellen S. Cohn As a young adult, I reveled in Existentialism, a philosophy that expressed my new-found independence and self-determination. I gave...
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