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One heart: reading Yitro after Colleyville
Divrei Torah, Response to TragedyIn this week’s Torah portion, Yitro, we receive Torah at Sinai. Tradition teaches that every Jewish soul that ever was and ever will be was present at Sinai. At Sinai […]
A message from R. Rachel re CBI of Colleyville, TX
Community, Response to TragedyDear Congregation Beth Israel community, There is nothing quite like the gut-wrenching feeling of emerging from the peace of Shabbat — a day when some of us avoid the news […]
From smallness to hope – a d’varling for Bo
Divrei TorahIn this week’s Torah portion, Bo, we are deep in the story of the plagues and traumas that unfolded as a prelude to yetziat Mitzrayim, our Exodus or going-forth from […]
The ones who come after: Vayechi
Divrei TorahThis week’s parsha is Vayechi, “He lived.” It opens, “Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt, so that the span of Jacob’s life came to one hundred and […]
Abundance and dreams, resilience and hope: Miketz and Chanukah
Chanukah, Divrei TorahPharaoh’s dreams (artist unknown); an oil-lamp chanukiyah. This week we continue the Joseph story. In this installment, Pharaoh has two disturbing dreams. In one dream, seven happy fat cows emerge […]
Shavua tov, chag sameach, and looking forward to Shabbat Chanukah!
ChanukahShabbat Services This Week Join us this week for multi-access Shabbat Chanukah Morning Services at 9:30am on Saturday. Because it’s Chanukah, we’ll sing the praise songs of Hallel with our morning […]
Wrestle and stretch – a d’varling for Vayishlach
Divrei Torah, PandemicThis week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, contains the story from which our people takes its name. Jacob is on his way to meet up with his brother Esau for the first […]
Integrity and becoming – a d’varling for Toldot
Divrei TorahOur Torah stories are the same every year. But as we change and grow, we find new ideas and understandings in the same old stories. In the verses from Toldot […]
Go – a d’varling for Lech-Lecha
Divrei Torahוַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם לֶךְ־לְךָ֛ מֵאַרְצְךָ֥ וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖ וּמִבֵּ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַרְאֶֽךָּ׃ Lech-lecha / go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will […]
The Strength to See What Isn’t Yet
Days of Awe, SermonsEarlier this summer, I copied down a Chinese proverb, though an internet search suggests that this many not actually come to us from China after all! But the words resonate […]
The Strength to Go Gentle
Days of Awe, Pandemic, Sermons, Yom KippurDid you know that Shakespeare wrote King Lear while quarantining for possible exposure to the Bubonic plague? Possibly also Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. I assume all of us wrote […]
Rejoice in the CBI Sukkah!
SukkotDear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends, Four days after Yom Kippur we enter the festival of Sukkot. (Deep thanks to Jen Burt and family for once again building and […]
Preparing for This Yom Kippur
Days of Awe, Yom KippurDear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends, It was a joy to be with so many of you during Rosh Hashanah. I hope that you are finding meaning in these […]
When We See Each Other: a d’varling for Shabbat Shuvah
Community, Days of AweOrdinarily on Shabbat Shuvah I would talk about teshuvah, return — turning our lives around, returning to our Source and to our highest selves. This is, after all, the work […]
Help CBI Feed the Hungry
Community, Days of Awe, Social Action, Tikkun OlamDear Congregation Beth Israel members and friends, During the Days of Awe, many synagogues hold food drives for dried and canned foods. We have done this for many years at […]