by Eliyahu Berkowitz | f 7, 2023 | Faith, God, Israel, Miracles, Psalms, Tests and Trials
King David started life as a shepherd but he came from a military family. I imagine his brothers coming home on leave, sitting at the dinner table, telling war stories to their red-headed little brother. Of course, David’s rise to the throne began on the battlefield,...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 2, 2023 | Beshalach, God, Miracles
The Torah portion of Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16) opens with a description of the Exodus from Egypt. After the Children of Israel journeyed for a few days, God commanded Moses to tell them to backtrack slightly and camp in a very specific location for a very...
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 19, 2023 | Free Will, God, Va'eira
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz People are complicated but God has us figured out, as the prophet Jeremiah said: Most devious is the heart; It is perverse—who can fathom it? I Hashem probe the heart, Search the mind— To repay every man according to his ways, With the proper...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 19, 2023 | Faith, God, Good and Evil, Israel, Psalms, Tests and Trials
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz When I sit down at my Shabbat dinner table and I am blessed to have my four children around me, something strange happens. I look at them but I don’t see them. I look at my 20-year-old daughter and see one moment, caught in time, with her in...
