Theology, Technology and a bit of Music
Some years ago a famous novelist died. Among his papers was found a list of suggested plots for future stories, the most prominently underscored being this one: “A widely separated family inherits a house in which they…
Three months ago, 1500 people marched in Chicago. The march was a women's gay rights march. As it gathered support, it seemed to be a proclamation for acceptance and diversity of all orientations, sexual and otherwise.…
If you are the dealer, I’m out of the game If you are the healer, it means I’m broken and lame And thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame You want it darker, we kill the flame.
When God was about to create human beings, a midrash shows that God formed an ad-hoc creation committee meeting. God invited the ministering angels to help decide whether or not to create humanity. The angels were…
Where have you been? What have you done? These are essential questions on our High Holidays. The prayers we recite tonight and tomorrow will help us to reflect on the past year as we engage in Chesbon HaNefesh, the self…
Our Torah portion of Pinchas starts with God giving him high praise: Pinchas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for me.
18 months ago, I was excited to stand on this bima and talk about the Western Wall agreement that would give men and women the chance to pray at the Western Wall together, free from the shackles of ultra-Orthodox…
There's a fantastic scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Dr. Jones is explaining to his class the basics about archeology. Archeology, he says, is the search for fact. It is not the search for truth.
You shall be holy, for I, the Eternal your God, am holy. Like last week, we again have a double Torah portion this week. I chanted from the first, Achrei Mot, but I want to talk tonight about the second. It is called…
In 1979, Elie Weisel wrote The Trial of God. Written as a play, it takes place in a Ukranian village in the year 1649 following an awful pogram that left only two survivors in the town. A group of actors come to the…