One of the greatest characteristics of the Jewish people is the dual streams of example and exposition in our heritage. Not only do we have primary sources in our oldest, holiest texts, we also have layer upon layer of commentary, questions, answers, and extrapolation on everything from the …
A few days ago, I heard a beautiful interpretation of the well known words in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) that we read this past Shabbat.
A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven:
A time for being born and a time for dying,
A time for planting and a time f…
This past Monday, almost 1500 members of our community participated in our October 7th commemoration at Clover Stadium. One of the most powerful elements of the program was the reading by Hillel Rockland student leaders of a poem that touches on the emotions we’ve all been feeling since Oc…
Sometimes we have an opportunity to demonstrate our love and solidarity and we maybe think - someone else will show up. There will be lots of people there. I don’t have to go. We tell ourselves that we are less needed, less important to a cause, less involved.
It’s not true. You are inv…
There is a passage in the 24th chapter of Mishlei, or Proverbs, that reads “Do not rejoice at the discomfiture of your enemies, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.” Often enough the ‘proverbial’ ad…
