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Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Father Ross Porter sit in chairs, each with a microphone, mid-conversation, beneath the title A Rabbi and a Priest Walk Into... a Conversation About Grief, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Father Ross Porter sit in chairs, each with a microphone, mid-conversation, beneath the title A Rabbi and a Priest Walk Into... a Conversation About Grief, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

A Rabbi and a Priest Walk Into...a Conversation About Grief

Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Father Ross Porter opened an interfaith series at Congregation Or Ami asking where God is when life hurts. Here's what happened.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Oct 172 min read

A gravestone surrounded by white lilies in a cemetery at sunset, with the poem title "Today I Go to the Funeral to Bury the Mother I Love" by Rabbi Paul Kipnes

A gravestone surrounded by white lilies in a cemetery at sunset, with the poem title "Today I Go to the Funeral to Bury the Mother I Love" by Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Today I Go to the Funeral to Bury the Mother I Love

I wrote this the day she buried her mother, trying to hold prayer and grief together as she recited the first Kaddish for her.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Sep 51 min read

A man in a dark jacket and cap sits on a rocky overlook at sunset, looking out over a hazy valley, beneath the title After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

A man in a dark jacket and cap sits on a rocky overlook at sunset, looking out over a hazy valley, beneath the title After 11 Deaths in 11 Days, I Had it Out with God, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

After 11 deaths in 11 days, I Had it Out with God

After 11 deaths in 11 days, I had it out with God. It was time for the conversation with the Creator that I had been putting off.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

May 9, 202110 min read

A man seen from behind stands on a rocky coastline with arms open toward a stormy sky breaking into a golden sunset over the ocean, beneath the title That Time I had it Out with God, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

A man seen from behind stands on a rocky coastline with arms open toward a stormy sky breaking into a golden sunset over the ocean, beneath the title That Time I had it Out with God, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

That Time I had it Out with God

The mother died four days after her daughter became Bat Mitzvah. And then I had it out with God.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Oct 1, 201710 min read

Two hands clasped on a bed with a blue knit blanket, a vase of white flowers and a glass of water nearby, and a sunset glowing through the window, beneath the title Preparing to Breathe Your Last Breath: Lessons Learned While Sitting with Jerry and David, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

Two hands clasped on a bed with a blue knit blanket, a vase of white flowers and a glass of water nearby, and a sunset glowing through the window, beneath the title Preparing to Breathe Your Last Breath: Lessons Learned While Sitting with Jerry and David, by Rabbi Paul Kipnes, paulkipnes.com.

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.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Oct 13, 20169 min read

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