The rhythm of the Jewish calendar allows us to sense a deeper level of experience beyond the seasonal changes. As we leave the month of...

(Posted originally on “Reclaiming Judaism”) This blog has become an intimate part of my life. I began writing it in 2011 as part of a...

It was not hard to take a back seat to my own spiritual growth. As a youngster, I dutifully attended High Holiday services but felt that...

Zooming alone We are thankfully in the midst of some re-openings, however, our situation will not revert to more innocent times or change...

This is a new experience for me, responding to a reader request! After reading a post on Gratitude, I was asked to write about Love....

“..the more enamored we are of our selves, the more fixed we are in our own ‘realities’, limiting the possibilities of our awareness.”...

The Joy of Gratitude Hebrew is a language with deep meanings that go way beyond an outer definition, and to understand foundational...

Will our connections with each other slowly melt away? Clearly, we are not paying attention Or taking advantage of obvious opportunities....

Inspired by Psalm 46 God is our refuge and strength, God will help us in our troubles, God is near—as near as the air we breathe. We can...

“It is because I believed in God that I was angry at God, and still am. But my faith is tested, wounded, but it’s here. So whatever I...

The quiet allows the voice of our soul to emerge On the week before Shavuot, we begin the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, known in...

What if God is waiting for us to cry out? What if all we need to do is to cry out in despair, as Abraham did thousands of years ago?...

Torah is a living entity in my life and is an endless and forever Giving-Tree. It is this imagery that captures me when we lift the Torah...

Podcasts. Virtual tours. Songs. Make-Your-Own-Haggadah. There is an endless array of information and resources about how to celebrate...

I read something from an unlikely source that struck my deepest core as a Jew, and came to a full stop at a passage from the first...

The Experience of the Holy This post is not about matchmaking, or even the journey to find your ‘soul mate’. Here, searching for the...

How can I reach the heavens when all I can think of is that I need some caffeine? Yom Kippur heightens the juxtaposition between the holy...

What would you do in an emergency? I heard something disturbing that I couldn’t shake off. This is not what I usually write about, but I...

Yet Again? This piece in The Hill, written by Rabbi Steinmetz, senior rabbi at Congregation Kehillath Jeshurun and editor-at-large at...

How do you wake up every morning? Do you have a particular ritual? In Judaism, we have a tradition of waking up with a declaration of...