Archive for May, 2007

What catches my attention even more than the count of 39 days to aliyah is the fact that it is now less than four weeks until the movers show up on our doorstep. Seriously soon! I’m feeling in “winding down” mode. Last night I had the last interfaith adult ed class, tonight I have...
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Before sharing my d’var Torah from this past Shabbat, I just want to say we had an amazing weekend of dedication events for our new building–from a "sing out Shabbat" Friday night, to Shabbat services, to the setting of the time capsule Sunday morning to the dedication concert Sunday night, it was an amazing...
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It’s interesting how there is a kind of emotional "doppler effect" surrounding big events in one’s life.  For me anyway, the days leading up to a big event in one’s life — like making aliyah or getting married — start to rush by in a blur.  When it’s a long time away, a year,...
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Im bechukotai talachu…“If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your threshing shall last to the time of vintage, and the vintage shall...
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  Had a nice write-up in the Toledo Blade on an inter-faith program I sponsored last Wednesday night, so I’m re-posting it here.  Next week we have a program at the cathedral on prayer, and on May 30 we have a program at the Islamic Center on acts of kindness/charity.  Reb Barry Clergy of...
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The other day I got an e-mail from my daughter Heather, who is away in college in California. She wrote “ OK, so my friend was asking how to say ‘live in the moment’ in Hebrew. I don’t know if they have a similar saying in Hebrew, but could you translate ‘live in the moment’ for...
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