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When We Assume... (P. Nitzavim-Vayeilekh)

8/30/2026

In just a matter of days, Jews here and around the world will gather in groups large and small – connected across distance but close in heart – to bring in a new year and a next turning of soul.

Always, but especially when times are tough, we stand together. It's an especially fitting time to consider to how we see each other – and try to remember how often we get it wrong.

Rabbi's Corner: September 2026 & High Holy Days: #RenewingBalance

8/30/2026

This month's important "Rabbi's Corner" column is all about the High Holy Days of 5787 – may they bring goodness and sweet renewal of spirit.

Please read for updates on this year's holiday season, ways to make the most of them, and registration for autumn programming.

Later Life Superpower: From Hindsight to Foresight (P. Ki Tavo)

8/23/2026

We usually imagine that our experience of time is steady and linear – but it's not always so.

Extraordinary moments seem to slow or even freeze in our awareness. As life progresses, we all collect those moments in the hindsight of our mind's eye. They live on as hyper-real memory.

It is precisely our hindsight – richly layered by life experience – that gives elapsed time its meaning.

Spiritual life invites us to inhabit wise hindsight, then pivot our adult wisdom into foresight.

Insides to Match Our Outsides (P. Ki Teitzei)

8/16/2026

Kol Nidre night is on its way. Just one month from now, we will stand together – whether in a shared sanctuary or collectively across time and space – in a timeless ritual of releasing ourselves and each other from vows we were unable to keep despite our best efforts.

Maybe that's why Torah this week uplifts the spirituality of integrity and keeping our word.

Three Traps for the Justice Unweary (P. Shoftim)

8/9/2026

The holy preparatory month of Elul begins. The inner shofar begins to sound, calling us ever more to inner attention. Rosh Hashanah will follow so very soon.

So it's precisely now that Torah echoes the shofar call with a resounding bellow through the ages: "Justice, justice shall you pursue."

The path beckons us, with three traps to avoid.

The Mitzvah of Crossing Our Inner Jordan (P. Re'eh)

8/2/2026

We haven't yet reached our destination. We still act like travelers battling traffic, anxiety, regrets, cruelty, endless customer-service hold times, and whatever else we carry within.

We'll be our best when we reach our destination, we tell ourselves. But what are we waiting for? Isn't the destination we await already within?

When We Assume... (P. Nitzavim-Vayeilekh)

Rabbi's Corner: September 2026 & High Holy Days: #RenewingBalance

Later Life Superpower: From Hindsight to Foresight (P. Ki Tavo)

Insides to Match Our Outsides (P. Ki Teitzei)

Three Traps for the Justice Unweary (P. Shoftim)

The Mitzvah of Crossing Our Inner Jordan (P. Re'eh)

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