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How is Yom Kippur like Purim?
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A midrash compares the two days, by noting that the most solemn Fast Day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, is similar to Purim: the day of feasti... -
Teshuvah means Returning
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Teshuvah/Returning
c. Yael Fischman, 2024
But I don't want
to return
to repeat the pattern
the circular staircase
ruin and recrimination.
I want- oh how I want-
to start again, (See more at https://www.renaissancewomankippot.org)
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Revisions: a Yom Kippur D'var Torah
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Artisan and parent Yael Fischman sees parallels between her lived experiences with those of our Divine Parent and Creator. -
A Grandmother Apartment for God?
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What to do about Grandma? Many of us have had this discussion with our families. Should we build an addition onto the house: a “Grandma apartment”, if you will? Fill it with some, but not all, of her treasured memories? And what to do with the myriads of family pictures, some of which were taken during the early days of photography, when the camera employed to collect those memories was, itself, nearly as big as an apartment?
Now imagine what Moses must have felt like when shown the plans for God’s apartment: the Mishkan, wherein God’s presence would be concentrated when the Israelites camped in the desert! An involved commission from the One who created the entire world? NO PROBLEM!! (Not.)
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As the Gate Closes...
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Do we have any sci/fi /fantasy folk around here? Besides me, that is! Have you ever read a book so profound that you want to grab everybody you kno... -
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... -
We are all broken: can we heal? Yom Kippur thoughts from a Jewish artisan
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Sometimes, a filament of a thought or a prayer comes to me as I'm working with wire, weaving strand after strand, hopefully, making a piece both beautiful and strong. Sometimes, I will have forgotten about a flaw which was present from the beginning, thinking, "I'll come back and fix that later,"...
