Tag: Beha’alotecha
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Welcome Is Not Enough
There’s a difference between opening a door and sharing the room.This week’s Torah portion — with its “mixed multitude” and the bold question Lamah nigara? (“Why should we be excluded?”) — has something urgent to say about Pride Month and trans inclusion in Jewish life.Rabbi Adrian Schell argues that queer and trans Jews aren’t a…
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Marching With the Sound of Hope
In this sermon, Rabbi Adrian Schell continues the courageous conversation taking place in his community, addressing grief, moral disorientation, and hope in turbulent times. Drawing on Numbers Chapter 10, he explores the symbolic power of the silver trumpets: tools that call to community, to action, and to memory. Just as the Israelites finally moved when…
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Parashat Beha’alotecha: Mind your words
Wherever we go in today’s society, we are bombarded by ads about what we should and should not be putting in our mouths. The ads tells us to eat this so that we can lose weight; to not eat that because it could raise our cholesterol; and we constantly hear promises of how ingesting a…
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A healing prayer for when a loved one is suffering
In last week’s Torah portion Miriam and Aaron talk about the “Cushite woman” whom Moses has married. In addition, they complain that God speaks not only through Moses but also through them. As a result, Miriam is struck with tzara’at, often translated as leprosy. In an interesting twist of the story, Moses shows a deep…
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Так было всегда: облако покрывало ее днем, а по ночам оно походило на огонь.
Многие из вас, наверное, помнят, как они в детстве получили в подарок велосипед. Я тоже это хорошо помню. Вместе с велосипедом я получил некую независимость. Я вспоминаю, как много лет я ездил на велосипеде к моим друзьям и любовался окружающим меня миром. Учиться езде на велосипеде было не так просто и опыт пришел по истечению…
