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  • Food For thought

     

  • Making meaning daily

  • Pushing through Anxiety

  • Patience, Forgiveness, and Compassion

  • Some guidelines for Emotional Well Being from the CDC

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    The CDC has some good information for us as we deal with the Coronavirus.  Take a look at how we can cope better, help our children as they try to cope, and lastly signs that you might not be coping. There is everything right about asking for help when you need it!

  • L’Chaim- A new lecture Series

  • Memorial Day

    To all of you who sacrificed your lives to protect and defend us, Thank You.

    Your memories are a continuing blessing to us all. 

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Usually, I share a single song performed by a wonderful artist to help bring in Shabbat.

    But this Shabbat, Shabbat Bereishit, I am sharing the Kabbalat Shabbat service at the amazing B’nai Jeshurun, from June 1, 2018.  Listen as long as you like, the music is enchanting and moving.  If you’re ever in New York, stop in for an amazing experience with the folks at BJ.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Shabbat Shalom

    As we welcome the first Shabbat after Yom Kippur, I wanted to share this wonderful rendition of Ana B’Choakh by Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble.

    This prayer is offered during Kabbalat Shabbat.  A favorite of the mystics, it’s power is said to lie beyond the words themselves and in the structure of the prayer where, as an acrostic, the 42 letter name of God is spelled out.

    Wishing everyone a year of health and blessings

    Shabbat Shalom

     

  • Shabbat Shalom

    The gifted Shai Sebbag shares Shalom Aleichem on his guitar.

     

    Shalom Aleichem- Peace be with you, our traditional liturgical greeting of Shabbat dating back to the mystics of Tzfat (Safed) from the 16th or 17th century.

    The story goes that two angels accompanied us on our way back home from the synagogue for Shabbat Dinner on Friday night.  If the home was ready for Shabbat, the good angel blessed that next Shabbat it should also be so, and the bad angel would respond “Amen”.  If the house was not ready for Shabbat, the roles were reversed.

    Peace upon you, ministering angels, messengers of the Most High,                                      of the Supreme King of Kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
    Come in peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High,                                     of the Supreme King of Kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
    Bless me with peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High,                           of the Supreme King of Kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
    May your departure be in peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High,       of the Supreme King of Kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
    Translation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom_Aleichem_(liturgy)