Month: December 2021

BLESSING of the YEARS Bless this our year and its abundant harvest for good. Grant blessing throughout the earth and satisfy us with Your goodness. Blessed are You, Eternal One, who blesses the years. “Mishkan T’filah / A Reform Siddur” p.86 PARSHA From Reform Judaism https://reformjudaism.org/torah/portion/va-eira Va’ëra (וָאֵרָא – “I (God) appeared [to Abraham, Isaac, …

PARSHA From ReformJudaism.org https://reformjudaism.org/torah/portion/shmot Sh’mot (שְׁמוֹת — Hebrew for “names”) – Ex. 1:1-6:1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. – Exodus 1:1-4 SUMMARY: The new king …

BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS From ReformJudaism.org https://reformjudaism.org/learning/torah-study/torah-commentary/between-light-and-darkness From the D’VAR TORAH BY: RABBI KARYN D. KEDAR We are all Jacob, we are all Joseph, trying to live in the truth and splendor of who we are. Yearning to forgive, to be forgiven. To come to our final moments with the sense of having lived with …

MEDITATION From “Mishkan T’filah / A Reform Siddur” p.145 ENTRANCES to holiness are everywhere. The possibility of ascent is all the time, even at unlikely times and through unlikely places. There is no place on earth without the Presence. PARSHA From ReformJudaism.org https://reformjudaism.org/torah/portion/vayigash Vayigash (וַיִּגַּשׁ — Hebrew for “And [Judah] Approached [Joseph]”) – Gen. 44:18-47:27 …

CHANUKAH SHAZOOM 7 PM (different time) December 3, 2021 MEDITATION Hanërot Halalu – הַנֵרוֹת הַלָּלוּ [these lights/candles] WE KINDLE THESE LIGHTS because of the wondrous deliverance You performed for our ancestors. During the eight days of Chanukah, these lights are sacred; we are not to use them but only to behold them, so that their …