by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 31, 2023 | Judges
By Rabbi Elie Mischel The Book of Judges has a standard playbook: the people of Israel drift away from God, God sends enemies to persecute them, the people cry out to God, and then God sends a heroic warrior to save them. As you would expect, the heroic warriors are...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 31, 2023 | Faith, God, Justice, Prayer, Psalms
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz I once stepped into a small synagogue in Jerusalem to sit down and say some psalms. I found an out-of-the-way corner hidden behind a shelf of books and began to recite silently. I was up to Psalm 41 when the door opened and a religious man...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 30, 2023 | God, Prayer, Psalms
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz King David has so many challenges and so many requests in the Book of Psalms that it is sometimes difficult to focus on the message he is trying to give over. This morning, I was reading Psalm 40 and, being a writer, a strange scenario began...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 29, 2023 | Israel, Judges, Leadership, Responsibility
By Rabbi Elie Mischel Othniel, the first judge of Israel described in the book of Judges, was a courageous warrior and military leader. When Caleb, the aging leader of the tribe of Judah, sought a younger man to lead the men of Judah in battle, Othniel volunteered:...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 24, 2023 | Kindness and Compassion, Prayer, Psalms
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz The most wonderful thing happened to me this morning. My wife got sick. I don’t mean to say that it is wonderful that my wife got sick. What I mean is that I got a chance to take care of my wife. She woke up with a touch of the flu. Thank God...
