Introducing Cantor David Presler
While serving a congregation for the High Holidays, I worked with Cantor David M. Presler who is from south Florida. He has a unique style of chanting and he sent JSA some brief selections of [Read more…]
While serving a congregation for the High Holidays, I worked with Cantor David M. Presler who is from south Florida. He has a unique style of chanting and he sent JSA some brief selections of [Read more…]
Chag Sameach! The festival of Sukkot is now upon us. This festival, once so important in the Jewish life cycle, now is paled in the afterglow of the High Holidays. Yet, as my colleagues know, [Read more…]
On the latest edition of the Jewish Sacred Aging Podcast, the guest is Rabbi Laura Geller, rabbi emerita of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, CA. Since her retirement from the pulpit, Rabbi Geller has been [Read more…]
“Ha’azinu” is a one chapter (Deuteronomy 32) portion that sets the stage for the coming completion of Deuteronomy. This “song” of Moses (it is written in Torah in poetic form like the Song for the [Read more…]
This week’s portion, coming as it does between Rosh Hoshannah and Yom Kippur raises an interesting issue. Moses recognizes that he is elderly. He tells us in Deuteronomy 31:2 that he is “120 years old [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: This guest post was contributed by Edmond H. Weiss, Ph.D. Long before the Pharisees began writing about an Olam Haba, an afterlife that is a reward for righteous living, there was a simpler [Read more…]
Shannah Tovah. Our tradition, as you know loves to play with the letters of Hebrew and the numerical equivalents for those letters. No better time to play with this than now, as we greet the [Read more…]
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