PARSHA POSTS: HAAZINU

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Oct 23, 2024, 2:00 PM

There are 24 hours from Simchat Torah until Shabbat, when we embark on the annual cycle of reading the Torah, beginning with Parsha Bereishit—the book of Genesis. It is a powerful moment to reflect on our origins, the purpose...

Bradley Goldberg

Oct 22, 2024, 4:52 AM

Are we the Artists or the Paintings? EMET=OMANUT

TRUTH=ART, EMET=OMANUT

The Annual Calhoun High School
"Goldberg Art Scholarship Competition"
Sponsored by 1992 Alumnus:
Bradley Goldberg, Forensic CPA and his little brother Michael Goldberg the Calhoun Art Teacher. (See Image for Details)

Do you have what it takes to WIN!

Are we the Artists or the Paintings? EMET=OMANUT (TRUTH=ART) __________________________________ Physics is telling us that our observations affect the observed. That a tree’s sound is painted by the observer. Where do all those photons go, reflected off Marc Chagall’s “The Praying Jew (Rabbi...

Oct 21, 2024, 11:38 AM

Rising to the challenge of the Assault on Judaism

Sukkot is traditionally a time of joy, a time of simcha (happiness), and it's interesting how the Torah instructs us to embrace joy during this festival, just as it instructs us to embrace sadness on Tisha B'Av. Why is...

Oct 8, 2024, 9:58 AM

It shouldn’t have happened.

Today is October 7th, 2024. But it still feels like October 7th, 2023. The pain is just as fresh. Watching the ceremonies was excruciating. I’m not here to rehash the pain, suffering, and trauma—these have been addressed elsewhere—but the truth...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Oct 1, 2024, 9:47 AM

Unconditional Generosity (Haazinu)

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. -Suze Orman Before a final exam or some other major challenge in...

Sep 30, 2024, 11:01 PM

We Have a Lot of Explaining to Do

Once upon a time, there was a merchant who spotted a babe tucked near a cactus in the brutal desert of the East. The baby was crying and the merchant, a kindly old man, took the baby home. He...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Sep 29, 2024, 6:48 AM

Empty Nothingness (Part 1 of 2)

The Aleinu L’Shabeach prayer — which is recited multiple times daily and in the Amidah on Rosh Hashanah — declares the universal dominion of Hashem’s sovereignty and His special relationship with the Jewish People. That prayer contrasts the Jews who worship the “King...

William Hamilton

Sep 22, 2023, 8:45 PM

Soothing get-togethers between your soul and its source

“What’s the one thing you want us walking away with from tonight’s visit?” asked a visitor last week from our local Greek Orthodox Seminary and College. I thought for a few minutes before I answered her great question. Then...

Sep 22, 2023, 11:25 AM

One book to rule them all

Frontispiece of Cyclopedia, 'L'Académie des sciences et des beaux-arts' (Public Domain/ Archive.org)

Since nobody can know everything, focus on what is essential - whether it's found in an encyclopedia or in the Torah (Haazinu)

Sep 22, 2023, 3:13 AM

The Spirituality of Song (Ha’azinu, Covenant & Conversation)

With Ha’azinu we climb to one of the peaks of Jewish spirituality. For a month Moses had taught the people. He had told them their history and destiny, and the laws that would make theirs a unique society of...

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