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Shavuot is upon us. On Sunday evening, Jews the world over will gather together to study Torah all night long for the hearty ones among us.
On Monday, we will read Exodus 19 and 20 the chapters that begin with God appointing Israel to be His “kingdom of priests and holy nation” and end with God beginning to set forth the laws we must follow in order to fulfill that role.
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sefirat ha’omer is a subject that had rarely if ever, rated more than a hundred lines in the traditional literature.
In
Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things (Basic Books), author Dr. Jeremy England, a theoretical physicist, has perhaps but a hundred lines (ok, maybe a bit more) on religion. However, with his nuanced and subtle and incredibly brilliant style, England has written one of the finest and most splendid books on the topic of religion and science.
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The second of this week’s
parshiyot sets up a remarkably simple paradigm: if we do X, then Y will occur. Action leads to reaction; cause leads to effect. If you follow My laws and observe My commandments, Hashem tells us, great things will happen: you will have rain, crops, peace, all with Hashem in your midst. And the opposite is true too: if you don’t keep the laws, then (and we whisper or lower our pitch for this part) terrible things will happen. In Neil Simon’s
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Looking back on the pandemic over the last year, one significant thing has changed for me: my state of mind. Instead of feeling present in the moment and mindful, as I initially did months after the onset, and being grateful for what I had previously taken for granted, my mood markedly altered. I began to increasingly feel, especially as the presidential elections approached, and for several months afterwards frustrated and angry. I was – and still am – deeply concerned about the direction our country seemed to be going.
The Examined Life
Learning how to live also necessitates, from time to time, spiritually pondering the brevity of time at our disposal.
Rabbi Tal Sessler, Ph.D., is the author of four books in philosophy and contemporary Jewish identity. He is the Senior Rabbi of Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, and the incoming Dean of the Rabbinical School at the Academy for Jewish Religion in California, where he also teaches Jewish philosophy.
Rabbi Tal Sessler, Ph.D., is the author of four books in philosophy and contemporary Jewish identity. He is the Senior Rabbi of Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, and the incoming Dean of the Rabbinical School at the Academy for Jewish Religion in California, where he also teaches Jewish philosophy.