Facing the trauma after the fires. If it can happen to the rabbi, it can happen to you too...
Category: Stories of our Lives
Four College Buddies, A Poem about Finding Oneself Again
Four college buddies gather together for a guy's weekend reunion. Open hearted sharing ensues. A spoken word poem.
I Held a Newborn Baby Today
Reflections on holding a newborn baby
History-holding Friend is a Gift from God
Devoted, history-holding, once-in-a-blue-moon-visiting friends are a transcendent gift from God.
Strangers at the Shiva Minyan
Seeking to extract meaning from the shiva minyan, we held onto the stories that brightened that house of mourning.
When the Lights Went Out during the Bar Mitzvah
Adin becomes a Bar Mitzvah by candlelight when the power went out. And the lessons learned were powerful.
Preparing to Breathe Your Last Breath: Lessons Learned While Sitting with Jerry and David
Lessons learned while taking their last breaths. Reflections on bikkur cholim (visiting the sick) with David and Jerry. A Yom Kippur sermon.
Facing Alzheimer’s as a Caregiver
Alzheimer's and dementia attacks the foundational values of who we are as Jews and Jewish families. We Jews consider ourselves the people of yikzor (remembrance): as long as we remember where we came from, we will have a sense of who we are and where we are going. So what happens when we can no longer remember any of that?
An Epiphany of Empowerment: Community Justice Shabbat
Our heartstrings resonated with story after story of those touched by mental illness, Alzheimer’s, homelessness, domestic violence, drugs, peer pressure, suicide, and the fear caused by terrorism. We discovered that alone we feel overwhelmed and powerless, but together we can become a source for change toward justice.
Reflections on the Death of a Child
How does a parent survive the death of a child? Charlotte Klein, an 81-year-old wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, reflects and offers wisdom.