Unconditional Love: Omer 3

Tiferet. Beauty. Tiferet she’b’chesed, the beauty in love. I want the people I love to find me beautiful. What do…

Family Love: Omer 1

Love. Kindness. Two good translations of the Hebrew word chesed. If you’re counting the Omer, chesed is the word of…

I dreamed about my late mother. Just a simple dream. I am walking with my mother. But I can’t keep…

Shema. Deuteronomy 6:4-9. It’s featured in this week’s Torah reading, and in the daily liturgy. It was inside a gift…

Jacob and Joseph. Biblical heroes, father and son. Two generations in a single story of hurt and healing. A father…

Graduation. Yes! This week, our daughter graduated from Simon Fraser University. Remember ancient rabbinic astrology? How it draws on the…

Death is weird. At least as weird as life, anyway. What can you say when a brother or a brother-in-law…

This week I became a citizen of Canada. But the journey began sixteen years ago. With a Sunday morning dream.…

Crows are Nesting in Our Backyard (May 6) Crows are nesting in our backyard! Three paces from the deck. You…