by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 6, 2023 | Israel, Judges, Responsibility
By Rabbi Elie Mischel When I graduated from my Boston area high school about 25 years ago, I chose to spend a year and a half in Israel, where I studied the Bible and Jewish wisdom at a yeshiva (a school for Jewish studies). As I came to the end of my studies, I had...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 5, 2023 | Bible Study, Tu B'shvat
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Before I became religious I did not take public celebrations seriously, but all of my energy went into New Year’s eve. Unfortunately, that usually meant drinking to excess and little else. So when I found out that Judaism has FOUR new...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 5, 2023 | Bible Study
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz Breslov Hassidim have many customs and traditions that look strange from the outside but actually make a lot of sense from the inside. One spiritual practice, called Hitbodedut, involves going out to the forest or some secluded place and...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 2, 2023 | Community, Israel, Judges, Responsibility
By Rabbi Elie Mischel Throughout the book of Judges, the people of Israel’s greatest enemy was looking at them in the mirror. Though they were plagued by many dangerous external enemies, Israel suffered most from internal division and infighting. The tribes, by and...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 1, 2023 | Bible Study
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz King David wrote psalms for every occasion. If he was happy, he sang to God. If he was sad, he sang to God. And these psalms were used for the Temple service and are still used in our prayers. But one group of psalms is confusing. Psalm 42 is...
