While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One FootMarch 26, 2020 I was honestly puzzled about what I was going to write about today. Like you, I am reading the news for simple facts so I can make informed and correct decisions. That takes quite a bit of time. And, often, I can find something that…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One FootMarch 25, 2020 In Theology class today, the discussion based on the book “The Tragedy Test” (which you are welcome to join us for if you need some intellectual stimulation and break from all this virus news) we somehow migrated to the famous saying by Hillel. You know…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One Foot March 24, 2020 Many years ago, I read a book that has stayed with me as few other books have. It was written by Rabbi Richard Rubenstein at it is called “The Cunning of History.” Its thesis was simple: when governments see populations as ‘surplus people,’ they…

While Standing (6 Feet Apart) on One LegMarch 22, 2020 This is the end of week 2 of the pandemic. We have been told to stay at home, keep our children out of school, not go to work, and so forth. Trying out new technology has had it challenges but seems that we have all…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One FootTorah for a Viral EpidemicMarch 21 – Shabbat 2 in Lockdown In the past couple of weeks we have been learning a lot and not just about the virus and the governments’ responses or even about the economic impact. We have also been learning how our computers work…and…

Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One Leg Torah for Dealing with a Virus 3/19/2020 In the past couple of days, I have been reading so much that I have forgotten what I read. That’s not usually an problem but when I cut and paste a note without attribution, that is a problem. So, in the…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One Leg: A Torah for a Virus: 3/18/2020 All trying times give rise to some insightful humor. During the Middle Ages in the time of the bubonic plaque, Jews were suspected of creating the disease and attacked because relatively few Jews got sick. One part of the accusation is…

While Standing (6 Feet Apart) on One Foot A Torah for a Virus The story of Moses, Miriam and God has an interesting episode in the Book of Numbers. Miriam and Aaron, Moses’ brother and sister didn’t like that Moses had married a Cushite woman – a black, probably African, woman. They confronted Moses and…

Moses’ invitation to ’cause people to come together’ is not so much a command to simply bring a big crowd to one spot. Rather it is, literally God saying to Moses, ‘Give these people a cause….and here is the cause. Build something constructive together and make that thing holy

Amalek is Us?  Only if we let it! Rabbi Cy Stanway The holiday of Purim is beckoned with a Torah portion in which the main commandment is, “Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt, how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked…