For those of you, who attended our first ever joint second night Passover Seder with Temple Beth Zion, you know that eight is the day of the Brit Mila. Rabbi Brent held up two fingers to look like scissors and…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Kiddush for Passover – Blessing over the wine Sung by Richard Tucker (1913-1975) Metropolitan Opera tenor
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Torah Thoughts – Passover – “The Burning Bush is a Blackberry Bush”
I wrote the poem. And then I rewrote it and made it worse. I thought time would heal it. Time passed. I did research: Exodus, midrash, my mother. I rewrote the poem. I ate fistfuls of soft berries. Navy lips.…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week by Mark Aaron James “Egypts to Leave”
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Arlene and Mike Frank Perform “Egypts to Leave”
Torah Thoughts – Tzav – Leviticus.6.1-8.36 – “Keeping the Flame Going”
This week’s Torah portion, Tzav, begins with an impossible proposition – a flame that no matter the situation is never allowed to go out. The Eternal Flame or Ner Tamid the Torah speaks about must be robust enough to withstand…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Mi Chamocha (Who is Like You, Adonai) Sung by Cantor Ari Litvak and Giselle Arditti
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Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Adir Hu (Mighty He) in the Sephardi Tradition, Traditional Passover Seder Table Song By Gerard Edery and Maria Krupovestra with the Klaipeda Orchestra of Klaipeda Hall, Lithuania
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Torah Thoughts – Vayikra – Leviticus 1:1-5:26 – “The Four Questions of Leviticus”
On Sunday, I had an opportunity to hear the Kindergarten through Second Grade students sing the Four Questions. The Mah Nishtanah is one of my favorite customs of the Passover Seder. Listening to the youngest members of our families provoke…
Torah Thoughts Vayakhel-Pekudei – Exodus 35:1-40:38 – “An Ode to the Purim Spielers”
Building the Tabernacle – an action we complete in this week’s double portion Vayakhel-Pekudei – is one of the holiest acts recorded in the Torah. Watching the Israelites gather from far and wide to complete this traveling sanctuary is as…