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A Hanukkah vort | Planting Rainbows
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Trying to become awesome, one day at a time, together. We observe on Hanukkah. Lighting candles is one; the other is reciting. The collection of Psalms 113 118. Thanks God for our liberation, the candles light the way of liberation to come. It’s easy to get caught up in triumphalism. Past liberation from oppression is worthy of song, but it is incomplete. True liberation will not come until the path to freedom is lit for. May this be our sacred duty this Hanukkah. Click to email (Opens in new window).
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Things that I think about stuff. Another Work Capacity Assessment. I’ve got a WCA this week. I’m flipping rapidly from panic to despair to calm and back again to panic. Because I should get the right result but the consequences of the wrong result are unthinkable. The reaction of the staff at the assessment centre suggested that this was not an unusual event. So now I have a work capacity assessment this week. Can you see me now? Here are my previous posts about being bi:. Can you see me? If you mostly l...
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Words | yetanotherlefty
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Things that I think about stuff. Where Babies Come From: A Lesson For All Tories, Whether Blue, Yellow or Red. What’s the big deal about misgendering? When I look back on my childhood as a trans, queer, autistic, mentally ill and disabled little boy, I often see the things that were missing. The problem with hindsight, always, is that it can only occur late, very late or far, far too late. Sometimes I need vocabulary I didn’t have before. Concepts like “trans and cis”, “neurod...As a child, words to desc...
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The Itinerant Rabbi(t): September 2014
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Rabbah, Educator, Lover of Torah, Life Cycle Officiant, Gerontologist, Forever an Eema! Come Journey with me! Wednesday, September 17, 2014. My Summer in Israel’s Matzav. This article was published in the September/October 2014 issue. Bulletin along with another congregant's. Of a feature called: Our Summer Experiences in Israel. I ached with grief over the “ matzav. Or bomb shelter, was located relative to one’s apartment and on neighborhood streets. Located in the center of Jerusalem, it’s a wond...
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The Itinerant Rabbi(t): November 2014
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Rabbah, Educator, Lover of Torah, Life Cycle Officiant, Gerontologist, Forever an Eema! Come Journey with me! Thursday, November 13, 2014. Chayei Sarah - The worth of one's days and one's death. The Worth of One's Days and One's Death. As printed in Washington Jewish Week 11/13/14. This week’s Torah portion is Chayei Sarah. Beliefs) about the afterlife, we give our loved ones eternal life by remembering them. Mourning, shiva, shloshim, yarzheit, Yizkor. Do we tell our children stories? Reasons that the n...
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The Itinerant Rabbi(t): July 2014
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Rabbah, Educator, Lover of Torah, Life Cycle Officiant, Gerontologist, Forever an Eema! Come Journey with me! Monday, July 28, 2014. So much has happened this summer in Israel. It’s difficult to record– let alone remember it all. It almost feels frivolous writing about non-war related experiences, but, on the other hand, perhaps it’s important to do so. To show that life goes on regardless. A young religious girl at the Friday morning Jerusalem Crafts Fair. We were eating dinner outdoors at a restaurant ...
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The Itinerant Rabbi(t): Inspiration of Prayer for Daily Life
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Rabbah, Educator, Lover of Torah, Life Cycle Officiant, Gerontologist, Forever an Eema! Come Journey with me! Thursday, June 11, 2015. Inspiration of Prayer for Daily Life. My fellow CPE interns are wonderful, 5 are from VTS, Virginia Theological Seminary. And one already out in the field awaiting ordination. Actually, my first unit back in '08 was with VTS seminarians as well, but only 3 that time. As before, I am the only Jew. Everyday at services one line in the Ashrei. More on this later. I am a quir...
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The Itinerant Rabbi(t): December 2014
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Rabbah, Educator, Lover of Torah, Life Cycle Officiant, Gerontologist, Forever an Eema! Come Journey with me! Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Die, Just Die! I just sat and stared. Sometimes I would sit quietly, trying to clear my mind and achieve a meditative calm. Other times I would be quite loud, saying or shouting: “Just stop working, just stop! And there would be no answer. So then I'd say “Die, just die! Don't you know how pleasant it will be in the world to come when you don't have to work anymore?
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The Itinerant Rabbi(t): August 2014
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Rabbah, Educator, Lover of Torah, Life Cycle Officiant, Gerontologist, Forever an Eema! Come Journey with me! Wednesday, August 6, 2014. The Two Version of the Fourth Commandment: to “Remember,” “Keep” Shabbat. This Dvar Torah appears in the Washington Jewish Week, August 7, 2014. In this week’s parsha. The best known difference is found in the first line of the commandment. Exodus 20:8 states: Zachor. Et haShabbat l’kodsho/. The Sabbath to keep it holy. And Deuteronomy 5:12 states:. But the seventh day ...
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The Itinerant Rabbi(t): May 2015
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Rabbah, Educator, Lover of Torah, Life Cycle Officiant, Gerontologist, Forever an Eema! Come Journey with me! Saturday, May 30, 2015. TinyTorahBits expanded: Parshat Nasso. Parshat Nasso - We might all bring similar gifts, it's what we do with them that makes them unique. This week’s Torah portion is Nasso, the second chapter in the book of Numbers. There is one particular part of this portion that I love. It is the exact same thing that the others have done before us and will do after us. The key is tha...
