Sukkot – Fun Facts, Reflections and Prayers by Rabbi Nat Ezray
09/01/2021 09:36:13 AM
Don’t overlook Sukkot! We need it now more than ever. Here are some interesting facts, reflection and a prayer that I hope will bring further meaning to Sukkot this year.
1. Sukkot is “THE HOLIDAY”
What is the most important holiday of the Jewish calendar? Most people would respond Yom Kippur or Passover. Some might even say Chanukkah. When you look at our sources – you will discover that the...Read more...
Rabbi Ilana Shoftim - Higher Love
08/19/2021 07:38:49 AM
Here’s a truth about little children, that is sometimes hard for adults to accept. Children love the people who give to them.
As they should. Young children have so many needs – physical and emotional – and our biology has programmed us to feel love for the people who provide, whether they it’s attention, or fun, or nurturing, or food.
When I was a little girl...Read more...
Rabbi Ilana - Pinchas
08/04/2021 10:41:04 AM
Most social progress is made as two steps forward and one step back.
Our family spent two nights last month at a hotel outside Grand Canyon National Park. Our room was decorated with framed, black-and-white photos of frontier explorers at the Canyon. What amazed me about those photos were the women – they were all wearing long, voluminous skirts down to the ground. Can you imagine...Read more...
Rabbi Ezray - Korach – Turning 60
08/04/2021 10:08:49 AM
That happened to me this week when I turned sixty and decided to see what traits and qualities our tradition associates with this milestone. In Pirkei Avot, we learn that thirty is the age of koach/strength; that felt right. Forty is the age of bina/insight; that too felt right. A decade ago when I turned fifty, the...Read more...