D'vrei Torah
Parashat Masei, Looking Back on the Journey
Rabbi Susan Elkodsi suggests that the time spent by Israel in the wilderness was a time of needed healing and repair. [Read more…]
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Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Seekers of Meaning 01/14/2022: Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW, retired Rabbinic Director of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in New York City, discusses [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Seekers of Meaning 1/8/2021: Discussion of “Psalms in the Key of Healing,” book edited by Rabbi H. Rafael Goldstein, z”l
Rabbi JD Sacks and Cantor Dr. Rhoda Harrison, Ph.D. discuss their contributed chapters to a new book, “Psalms in the Key of Healing,” edited by Rabbi H. Rafael Goldstein, who died in late December shortly before the book’s scheduled publication in January. [Read more…]
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Reflections on Postelection Healing
Chaplain Barry Pitegoff reflects on the healing that our communities need in the postelection period. [Read more…]
Living Longer-Living Better
How Do We Care For The Nation?
This guest blog post originally appeared on the Spiritual Care Association website and is republished here with the kind permission of Reverend Hall. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
Rabbi Dayle Friedman, founder of GrowingOlder.net, discusses Pesach in a time of pandemic on the Seekers of Meaning podcast
Rabbi Dayle Friedman, founder of the website GrowingOlder.net, and interim rabbi at Congregation Leyv Ha’ir in Philadelphia, is the guest on this week’s Seekers of Meaning Podcast. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
SOM Pod: Rabbi Arthur Waskow of The Shalom Center, on #SukkotForClimateHealing
In this episode of the Seekers of Meaning Podcast, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of The Shalom Center in Philadelphia, discusses how the Jewish harvest festival Sukkot can be a model for teaching about Climate Change and healing the earth. [Read more…]
Seekers of Meaning-JSA Podcast
SOM Podcast: RAPHA, The Center for Healing and Spirituality, with Rabbi Abby Michaleski and Kohenet Ma’ayana Tishman
On this episode of the Seekers of Meaning Podcast, Rabbi Address interviews Rabbi Abby Michaleski and Kohenet Ma’ayana Tishman, founders of RAPHA, The Center for Healing and Spirituality. RAPHA offers experiential teachings in Torah and Jewish tradition that encourage [Read more…]
Resource Articles
Resource for Downloading: Cancer Meditations for Your Passover Seder 2018
Rabbi Benjamin David prepared a set of meditations on cancer that can be used as part of your Seder. Rabbi David, a cancer survivor, has given Jewish Sacred Aging® permission to reprint these meditations. Rabbi [Read more…]
Talmud Torah
Rabbi Ben David’s Yom Kippur Sermon 2016
So much has happened since 1976. Think about it for a minute. Think about how different life was for you and for your family forty years ago. Maybe you were a young parent. Forty years [Read more…]