Teachings From The Community
Chanukah Teaching from Jared Gellert
Chanukah is the well-known holiday that arrives at the end of Kislev and the beginning of Tevet. Though it began later in Jewish history and carries a different kind of religious weight [...]
Sukkot Teaching from Rachel Ruach Golden & Ilana Meallem
Sukkot was traditionally one of the great pilgrimage festivals, when the people ascended to Jerusalem to bring the harvest offerings of grain, wine, and oil. In the days of the Temple, seventy [...]
Yom Kippur Teaching with Rabbi Paige Lowenstein
As I look up at the yellowing redwood leaves that have barely received rain since Pesach, I feel the communal introspection and repentance of Yom Kippur lingering over us. Our core prayer [...]
Rosh Hashanah Teaching with Rebecca Schisler
The Call of Teshuva I always find it funny that Yom Kippur is usually considered the somber day of self-examination and teshuva, while Rosh Hashanah is thought of as celebratory and sweet — when [...]
Elul Teaching with New Program Director Eli Witkin
Elul, Air, and the Divine Breath of the Shofar In this ever turning dance of the seasons, we find ourselves once again entering the month of Elul. This month begins with a [...]
A Tu B’Av Teaching with Jared Gellert
We just ended our time of communal mourning with the holiday of Tisha B’av. A scant six days later, in the full moon of Av, we have a very, very different holiday [...]
A Shavuot Teaching with Rabbi SaraLeya Schley
Shalom, all of you lovers of Wilderness and of Torah, as we walk this path together! Every year, as we complete the counting of the Omer, – the 7 weeks of incremental [...]
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