Yom Kippur 2019 - “Mirror”

A challenge to ourselves in the coming year to look in the mirror and rather than see our imperfections as flaws, to see them as our greatest achievements. How can we redirect our inner critic to see the beauty in our imperfections?

January 25, 2019 - Parashat Yitro

An in-depth look at the Ten Commandments, specifically focusing on the fifth commandment: Honor your father and your mother. “How will we honor them while we live under their roof, how will we honor them while we spread our wings, when we turn into caregivers, and how will we honor their memory, their legacy and their neshama, their soul.”

Rosh Hashanah 2018 - “The Shofar: A Call to Action”

The shofar is here to wake you up to our broken world, to make your insides quake and to make you absolutely uncomfortable with the status quo. We are taught that to fulfill the mitzvah of hearing the shofar you must not just hear it, but direct your heart towards it.

Rosh Hashanah 2019 - “Anti-Semitism”

Using Deborah Lipstadt’s metaphor for anti-Semitism to analyze the prevalence in our community and around the world. Exploring ways we can help educate others and ourselves to prevent outbreaks of anti-Semitism from erupting.

Yom Kippur 2018 - “Moving Through Fear”

A guide for moving through fear. Fear is both harmful and helpful. Fears are what propel us into action and also paralyze us into inaction. And yet both action and inaction are the correct responses in certain scenarios. There are two Hebrew words for Fear, Pachad and Norah. Pachad [is] projected or imagined fear... Pachad is paralyzing. It stops us in our tracks… How should we handle fear?

Yom Kippur 2018 - “The Meaning of Avinu Malkeinu/Divine Mother”

An alternative look at Avinu Malkeinu. How we use metaphors to try and understand the space in between, and understand only a spark of God.