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Moses and Me
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Forty-six years ago, a young woman stood at the ammud/lectern to give her D'var Torah and chant her Haftarah at her Bat Mitzvah. Shaking like a leaf in a storm, the nervous twelve year old version of myself began her prepared remarks... -
Darkest before the Dawn
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People often use the phrase, "It is always darkest before the dawn," as an attempt to comfort others when they can't find anything else to say. I h... -
Put on your Thinking Cap...
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Did you know that a kosher kippah only needs to be big enough to cover one's fist? Rabbi Susan Grossman of Columbia, MD shared that teaching with m... -
On the Fringe
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Being "on the fringe" can mean the outer periphery of a place, ideas that are quite far from the accepted norm, even land that is on the far flung ... -
Lifting up the Heads
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Lifting up the Heads
https://renaissancewomankippot.org/blogs/muse/lifting-up-the-heads
Parshat Naso deals with a lot of mundane "stuff": from the census to the "sota", the trial by ordeal forced upon a suspected adulteress ( but not, we note, for the adulterer). She is forced to drink waters which will make her violently ill or kill her. As my former Rabbi, Jonathan Cohen, used to say,
"What is it about the patriarchy that you don't get?"
And yet, Manoah's WIFE is addressed in the Haftarah...
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Shavuot: the "plus one" holiday (Updated 2022)
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So,by the time Shavuot occurs, we will have counted the Omer, the days between Pesach and Shavuot, for the past 49 days. We've tried to do self-improvement: to BE "plus one," ie, better than we are now... -
Counting the Days
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"Teach us to number our days (correctly), that we may attain a heart of wisdom"- Ps. 90 During this period of time, Sefirat ha- Omer, we do just th... -
The Great Redemption
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The Great Redemption
https://renaissancewomankippot.org/blogs/muse/the-great-redemption
Redemption and renewal, after a cataclysmic upheaval : sound familiar in the year 2022? The prophetic reading for the last Sabbath of Pesach this year contains all these themes and more...
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Miriam's Well
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Legends concerning Miriam often involve a magical well which sprang up and followed her wherever she went. Some stories even say that she was a water witch, gifted with locating actual water where there was none: a very useful skill in the desert, yes? -
Judith: the Jewish Yael?
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Judith: the Jewish Yael?
https://renaissancewomankippot.org/blogs/muse/judith-the-jewish-yael
Hanukkah this year brought up lots of questions for me personally, as well as artistically...
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Rebecca 's Test
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Rebecca and Isaac were true loves, and yet there were some things she just could not tell him. She comforted Isaac after the death of his mother Sa... -
The Story of Serach
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Sukkot, which ended recently, was an occasion to invite honored ancestral guests, such as Serach, into this outside, temporary dwelling. Never heard of Serach? For many years, neither had I...
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