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Talmud of America

My recent posts..."Talmud of America" Pardes Institute, a non-denominational study center based in Jerusalem, offers immersive Jewish learning around the world. One project is “Talmud of America,” which aims to illuminate and interpret, through Jewish eyes, some...

Twilight Zone

My recent posts...Twilight Zone בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת Bein hashemashot, literally, between the suns. בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת A twilight zone of time, or rather, out of time, between one day and the next. Our sages of old used this concept to explain certain miraculous...

When to Pray Yizkor

My recent posts...My edited comments from this past final day of Pesach. Ellie’s mom, Julia Helfman, died on her 95th birthday, December 24, 2025. This was the first Yizkor service Ellie feels obligated to attend. She said, “I’m now a member of a club I was not eager...

Timing

It had become a Kremer household Pesach tradition, or rather, a pre-Pesach tradition. Somewhere within a couple of days prior the first seder and noon on erev Pesach, something would go awry in the kitchen.

Outrage. Sorrow. Resolve.

Feb 24, 2025 | A Rabbi Writes

outrage

sorrow

resolve

let not the desire for deserved retribution

the justified outrage over evil and lies

overwhelm our deep sorrow

and our deeper resolve

for our resolve

deepened and hardened by our sorrow

is stronger than lies and evil

retribution will come in its due time

kein yehi ratzon / may it be so

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Shabbat shalom!