Conversations with the Rabbi

If you cannot read the Hebrew above, you should sign up for this class!

If you can read the Hebrew above, but don't know what it means, you should sign up for this class!

If you can read the Hebrew above and know what it means literally, you should sign up for this class!

If you can read the Hebrew above and know what it means, literally and soulfully, you would be a great addition to this class and you should sign up!

If you can read the Hebrew above and know what it means, literally and soulfully, and you sign up for this class, you will find yourself challenged by what it really means for how we live our lives (if you sign up for this class!).

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Do you believe that every good and bad thing that has happened to you in your life is a direct result of your own actions?

Breathing Is Easy Without A Knee On One’s Neck by Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss

Freedom isn't enough.

Flying Into The Wilderness by Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss

What songs are we writing and singing with our lives in this moment? Who do we wish to be? How do we wish to be remembered?

6 or 7 weeks into the "Q" as my sons call it, the novelty has worn off and now we wait. Try to keep safe, rally around those suffering from it or fighting it directly, and resolve our souls to mostly sit, contemplate and stay out of the way. How do we rise to the surface when it feels so dark and gloomy down here?

Weeks continue, in this for a longer haul than most of us fully understood, how do we make the best of it?

Michael Strassfeld, the author of the First, Second and Third Jewish Catalogs is the author of this "Dayeinu for our Time." Years ago, I had the privilege of studying with Michael at a rabbis retreat. He is a gifted scholar and spiritual teacher. May you find enhanced meaning in this wonderfully moving and heart-breaking Dayeinu. Our sages taught, "There is nothing more whole than a broken heart."

What is your essential drive? What makes you you? Because that is what the world needs right now.