Rabbi Address’s “Living Longer-Living Better” essays include reflections on the challenges and joys of aging and their implications for our families.
Shalom. The next few days promises to be important in the continuing challenge to health care and public health. Soon the administration will send up a proposed budget for the federal government. Many of us, [Read more…]
Many of you who may attend a service or life cycle event at a synagogue may be familiar with the Alvin Fine meditation “Birth Is A Beginning and Death A Destination”. The meditation speaks about [Read more…]
The number four plays a significant role in Passover, symbolized by the Hebrew letter “dalet.” It represents physical directions, God’s guidance in history, and the importance of setting a moral example. The Seder encourages reflection on unity, compassion, and promoting justice, emphasizing the need for active engagement against societal injustices. [Read more…]
There is a verse in Deuteronomy (15:8) that keeps running through my mind in recent days. The section of Torah is discussing measures to protect the poor and in 15:8 we read that we should [Read more…]
One of the most important issues that comes up in almost every class or workshop or discussion that we run as part of our Jewish Sacred Aging® program is the challenges our generation faces with [Read more…]
For some reason I have been thinking a lot about transitions these past few weeks. It is February, and with football done (Eagles win!) and baseball a way away (pray for the Phillies) we are [Read more…]
We greet, in this season, the celebration of Tu Bishvat, the so-called “New Year Of The Trees”. This celebration, part of a tradition of four “new years,” has, in recent years, taken on new meaning. [Read more…]
What an interesting confluence of events this week! MLK day coincides with Inauguration Day and new administration and the Torah portion which speaks about hardening the heart of Pharaoh and the beginning plagues. Several sermons [Read more…]
Some times the confluence of events remind us of realities we may have repressed, or really desired to ignore. This past week my wife and I went to see the Dylan movie “A Complete Unknown”. [Read more…]
Welcome to 2025! Yes, we are living in interesting times. I am sure many of us have watched media retrospectives on 2024, the highlights and low lights of this past year. No one of us [Read more…]
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