Tagged ‘Bereshit’
Parashat Bereishit
by Rabbi Jill Hammer Parashat Bereishit: The Ever-Turning Sword “YHWH Elohim sent out the human from the garden of Eden, to work the earth from which he was taken. So YHWH Elohim expelled the human and caused to dwell east … Continue reading »
Parashat Bereishit
by Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky For many people the season of repentance ended with the Neilah service on Yom Kippur. For others the gates of repentance remained open through Hoshanah Rabbah, the last day of Hol Ha-Moed Sukkot. This emphasis on … Continue reading »
Parashat Bereishit
Overture: Our Place in God’s Purposive World Rabbi Len Levin “In the beginning God created heavens and earth” (older translation) or “When God began to create the heavens and the earth — the earth being chaos-shmaos (Yochanan Muffs’ paraphrase of tohu … Continue reading »
Parashat Bereshit
The Story of Creation By Rabbi Judith Edelstein For rabbis and cantors – as well as for many congregants who are involved in synagogue life, this is the most challenging and stressful time of year. No sooner have we rabbis … Continue reading »
Parashat Bereshit
Seven Principles of a Biblical Environmental Ethic While many people delight in the high drama of the first stories of the Bible in this weeks’ parashah, we can also derive a profound and far-reaching environmental ethic from these stories – … Continue reading »
Parashat Bereshit
By Miriam Herscher One Jewish year and Torah reading cycle closes and one Jewish year and Torah cycle begins… In synagogues this coming Shabbat we read together the very first parashah of the very first book of our beloved Torah: … Continue reading »
Parashat B’reishit
To Begin at the Beginning . . . By Hazzan Marcia Lane I have an affinity for stationery stores. I love the smell of new paper. I am constantly buying new notebooks, trying to find the perfect form of paper, … Continue reading »
Parashat B’reishit
By Linda Shriner-Cahn The holidays have come and gone, and we begin anew, back at the beginning, with an opportunity to come to the Torah with fresh eyes, ready to wrestle new meaning and deeper understandings from the text. Rabbi … Continue reading »
Bereshit
On Endings, Beginnings and Tikkun ha-Olam: A-HA Experience at AJR By Peg Kershenbaum Vayar Elohim et-kol-asher asah v’hinei-tov m’od; vay’hi-erev vay’hi-voqer yom hashishi And God saw all that He had made. And behold: it was very good! And there was … Continue reading »
Bereshit
Looking Beyond Our Neighborhood By Irwin Huberman In the beginning . . . . the Torah reminds us not only to love our neighbor, but also to extend compassion to those in need throughout the world. In recent months the … Continue reading »
