Guest Essay: Taharot in Pittsburgh
Editor’s Note: Alden Solovy writes the “To Bend Light” blog, where this essay originally appeared. He gave Jewish Sacred Aging permission to reprint it [Read more...]
Rituals
Rituals that can give meaning and comfort to the Jewish Sacred Aging journey.
Rabbi Address’s Mid-Month Message: MAKING SURE IT COUNTS: The OMER and us.
In Jewish tradition, this period between Passover and the festival of Shavuot is referred to as the “omer”. This reflects back to Torah and the charge to take a [Read more...]
Rabbi Jonathan Kendall: Empty Chairs
A Pesach anecdote: when I became the Senior Rabbi at a large Miami congregation, among my many meetings with the Founding Rabbi Emeritus, the issue of the community Seder [Read more...]
Memories of my Mom and Dad — Yizkor 2013
Our Jewish calendar provides us with time to remember those we have loved. On their Yarzheits, or anniversary of passing, our thoughts turn to our mothers or fathers, our [Read more...]
Bubbe and me
Have I told you the story about my Bubbe [Yiddish, grandmother] coming to my son’s Bar Mitzvah but she was already dead? This is a true story that if I had not been there [Read more...]
To every season under heaven…time in a Torah
The holiday of Simchat Torah at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Ill. The holiday marks the end of reading the torah and the start of reading it again. [Read more...]
Passover and the Cleansing of the Soul
Happy Passover. It is that time again. Families are gathering and the stories will flow as we sit around the seder table. [Read more...]
Treating our homes as sacred space
There is a growing acknowledgment of the heavy load the boomer generation is carrying. Many of us — even Rabbi Address, the leader of this site — are [Read more...]
D’var Torah: Unatana Tokef
A modern meditation Rabbi Ann Brener, LCSW We now confront the meaning of this day As we stare into the face of our own mortality. We form a circle. Hands and souls linked, [Read more...]
A ritual for leaving the family home
For many of us, when we move into a new home, we affix a mezuzah with a small ceremony. We welcome the creation of a Jewish home. Rabbi Michael Howald Yet, when it comes time [Read more...]
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