Condemned to Repeat It?
08/15/2024 10:11:50 AM
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One of my favorite scenes from the Amazon Prime show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel revolves around the holiday of Tisha B’Av, which fell this past week from Monday to Tuesday evenings. Midge’s family is gathered at a resort in the Catskills, oblivious to the occasion, but her sister-in-law, a delightfully sincere yet comical recent convert, is determined to observe the day to the letter, fasting from sundown to...Read more...
Shabbat Chazon
08/09/2024 09:53:51 AM
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all
These immortal words are from the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The homage she pays to hope here is one of beauty and importance. Think about how many times, even in a single day or week, you have articulated a hope of some kind. Whether...Read more...
Pressing the Pause Button
08/01/2024 05:01:36 PM
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For the past few days, I have been in the Catskills, hiking, swimming, visiting historic sites... As I look out the window of the storied resort where I am staying, there is green as far as the eye can see: warmer, brighter tones in the foreground and cooler, more minty ones from the mountains in the distance. Families are playing tennis, that friendly elderly couple will probably be sitting on the front porch...Read more...
Drawn to the Fire
07/25/2024 08:22:54 AM
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In the 1920’s, the author Don Marquis created a wonderful series of comics and poetry. One poem, “the lesson of the moth,” features archy, his favorite character, observing a moth who as archy describes him, is “trying to break into a lightbulb and fry himself on the wires.”
“why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the...Read more...
Pin the...Tale on the Donkey?
07/18/2024 04:59:13 PM
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Most of us remember playing that childhood party game. A poster of a donkey without a tail, which would pass from one player’s hand to the next. When it was your turn, you would be spun around and then guided toward the donkey. Anywhere from slightly to severely dizzy, you would do your best to fasten the tale onto that donkey’s back end! Just as likely though, said tail would end up on...Read more...
Something's Lost and Something's Gained...
07/09/2024 04:45:37 PM
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It’s summertime, so I’ve got Joni Mitchell on my mind. Not only because she penned and performed some of my favorite summer anthems (“The Hissing of Summer Lawns,” “Chelsea Morning,” and “Woodstock,” anyone?), but also because her music contains a wealth of seemingly lighthearted lyrics that carry a profound resonance that I don’t often have time to relish during the chaos of the school year. This...Read more...
Korach
07/03/2024 05:20:06 PM
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While the word “insurrection” may trigger fresh emotions for Americans in the wake of January 6, 2021, power struggles are nothing new to human history. One look at today’s headlines reaffirms that this tradition is alive and well: tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv, snap elections in France, gang warfare in Haiti, murdered protesters of a tax hike in Kenya. In the same...Read more...
Moving Forward as We Are
06/26/2024 12:37:38 PM
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“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are,” the writer Anais Nin famously remarked.
The very same might be said of Torah, especially this Shabbat as we reflect on the portion Shelach Lecha. The opening of this parsha tells a story that is all about how we see, and how we are seen.
It’s about the images of ourselves that we carry in our mind’s eye…...Read more...
Out, Damned Spot!
06/21/2024 09:43:35 AM
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“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
“Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
“Something wicked this way comes.”
Perhaps the most famous (and misquoted) line from the play...Read more...
Harvest Season
06/14/2024 10:40:10 AM
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This past Tuesday evening our congregation celebrated Shavuot, with guests from Gishrei Shalom in Southington. It is it is a beautiful holiday; at once a harvest festival and the Season of Revelation hearkening back to the Israelites first hearing the words of our ancient covenant at Mt. Sinai. After seven weeks of counting the omer and, step by step, coming closer to this moment, we find that in the words of a past student of...Read more...
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