Tag: Va’eira
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The Pain of Being Unseen: A Rosh Hashanah Message of Hope and Recognition
On Rosh Hashanah, we stand before the Divine with a profound and deeply human hope: to be truly seen. This sermon explores the quiet, sinking feeling of being overlooked that we have all experienced and connects it to the central prayers of the High Holy Days. It asks: What is the greatest blessing we can…
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Parashat Va’eira: Each person has a name.
Each person has a name.We each have a name given by God and given by our father and mother.We each have a name given by our stature and smile and given by our attire.… We each have a name given by the sea and given by our death. (Poem by Zelda, Mishkan T’filah, ed., Elyse…
