Wisdom to ensure you don’t let political disruptions ruin your Thanksgiving dinner
Category: Secular Holidays
After the Fires: Celebrating Thanksgiving When Homes are Lost or Damaged
When circumstances out of our control - like fires or other disasters - affect our ability to hold our Thanksgiving rituals in our usual way, we can become distraught. When life intervenes – like fires destroying homes or forcing a loved one to be absent – what happens to the ritual? By Sally Weber MSW and Rabbi Paul Kipnes
Some Truth about Mothers
The Hebrew word for truth is אמת (meet). The Hebrew word for mother is אמ (em) – the first two letters of the word אמת (meet). To discover truth, we are often need only go in the right direction, the one that our mothers point us in.
Taste the Sweetness of the Gift
A Hasidic story about bitterness and sweetness, and our chance to taste the sweet.
Stuffing Thanksgiving with Abundant Thanks
5 ways to give thanks on Thanksgiving, making it a spiritual holiday of gratitude.
Halloween Torah: The Bible’s Scariest Horror Story
Halloween Torah: The Akedah is a bloodcurdling tale of a menacing father who almost murders his kid, a nightmare waiting to keep you up all night.