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Teshuvah: Can it Change the Timeline of Your Past?

September 23, 2017 2 comments
Teshuvah: Can it Change the Timeline of Your Past?

Can teshuvah – repentance, renewal, and return to God – change the past? In Parshat Haazinu (Deut. 32:1-32:52) Moses speaks to…

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Jewish Practices, Prayer, Spirituality

A Rosh Hashanah Ritual Riddle: How are dessert and liturgy alike?

September 21, 2017 No comment(s)
A Rosh Hashanah Ritual Riddle: How are dessert and liturgy alike?

Your Rosh Hashanah ritual riddle: how are sweet fruit crumble and the liturgy of Unetaneh Tokef alike? I’m asking for…

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Jewish Practices, Love, Political

Elijah came to Vancouver to test us. Did we pass?

August 25, 2017 5 comments
Elijah came to Vancouver to test us. Did we pass?

You know the stories. Elijah crouches on the street corner, begging. She bangs on your door at midnight, fleeing an…

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Jewish Practices, Torah

Eicha? How do you approach the Book of Lamentations?

July 30, 2017 No comment(s)
Eicha? How do you approach the Book of Lamentations?

Each year on Tisha B’Av, practicing Jews reflect on Eicha, the book of Lamentations. What is the book of Lamentations? Lamentations is a…

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Jewish Practices, Torah, Wisdom

Jacob's Crossings—and Yours

December 16, 2016 No comment(s)
Jacob's Crossings—and Yours

At the first meeting of a class, discussion, or spiritual direction group, I invite people to introduce themselves. Sometimes, I’ll ask…

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God, Jewish Practices, Kabbalah, Wisdom

Mystical Fruit: Tu BeShevat

January 24, 2013 3 comments
Mystical Fruit: Tu BeShevat

Enter the world of Pri Etz Hadar, the first published Kabbalistic Tu BeShevat Seder (c. 17th century). We learn that…

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Feminism, Jewish Practices, Torah

Judith: Hanukah Heroine in Art & Imagination

December 24, 2012 2 comments
Judith: Hanukah Heroine in Art & Imagination

Judith. A story written 2100 years ago, set in the time of the Maccabean revolt… General Holofernes and his army…

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Jewish Practices, Torah

Our Name is Gratitude

December 18, 2008 No comment(s)
Our Name is Gratitude

When Leah’s fourth son is born, she names him Judah. In Hebrew, that’s Yehudah: gratitude. Yehuda‘s name honours the miraculous…

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