Shabbat Table Talk

An Accounting of Counting

What do people count? Some count sheep, some count their money, and others count their blessings. Counting is usually done when we want to take an inventory and know clearly how much is there. 

In Jewish thought, counting people is generally frowned upon. In Exodus 30:12 the Torah prescrib…

Pesach 2.0

Although I usually use this space to write about the Parsha of the week, since last Friday was a lesser known holiday, I’ve pivoted to discuss the holiday instead.

Every year when the township announces the date for fall leaf pickup, a secondary date is offered in case you didn’t prepar…

Time Sensitive

Timing matters. You cannot observe Shabbat on Wednesday, Pesach in the winter, or Yom Kippur in the spring. In life, generally we understand that there are tasks that are time sensitive, and we attend to them as such.

In this week’s Parsha, Emor, we read of two Mitzvot/commandments that a…

The Courage to Care and Heal Division

We live in a fractured world where there is too much dislike, disdain, and detachment. When someone says something or does something we disagree with, how do we respond? Do we react forcefully? Do we write them off and “cancel” them? We are living in times where nations rise up against n…

Rising to the Occasion


 

Throughout life we all strive to accomplish many things, yet we are bound to make mistakes along the way. When others forgive us for our mistakes, we also need to forgive ourselves, learn from what went wrong and advance forward with positivity.

In this week’s parsha, Shmini, it is a…