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Parashat Mishpatin / Feb 18 / Reclaiming the Endless Value of Every Human Being
Parashat Mishpatin / Feb 18
Rabbi Rani Jaeger — Visiting Scholar
Reclaiming the Endless Value of Every Human Being
We're overjoyed to welcome some of the most engaging, powerful teachers in the US and Israel. Many are long time Kitchen favorites, some newer to us but all known for their ability to connect Torah to our lives right now. We'll spend a whole shabbat with these thinkers, like a retreat without having to pack.
Parashat Mishpatin / Feb 17 / The Torah that Moses put in front of the People Israel: Choosing Torah, Giving it Our Voice
Parashat Mishpatin / Feb 17
Rabbi Rani Jaeger — Visiting Scholar
The Torah that Moses put in front of the People Israel: Choosing Torah, Giving it Our Voice
We're overjoyed to welcome some of the most engaging, powerful teachers in the US and Israel. Many are long time Kitchen favorites, some newer to us but all known for their ability to connect Torah to our lives right now. We'll spend a whole shabbat with these thinkers, like a retreat without having to pack.
Parashat Vaera / Jan 21 / Rabbi Noa Kushner / Don’t Wait for Angels to Sing
Parashat Vaera / Jan 21
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Don’t Wait for Angels to Sing
It is not only Moses who's standing around and listening, we're standing.
And the calls are nonstop, the evidence is mounting,
Pharoah is not getting any weaker by our absence, and God is losing patience.
Parashat Vaera / Jan 20 / Rabbi Noa Kushner / Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win
Parashat Vaera / Jan 20
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win
You see, Moses is not being sent to Pharaoh — Pharaoh is a lost cause — everyone knows that
Moses is not being sent to Pharaoh
Pharaoh is being sent to Moses
Parashat Vayechi / Jan 7 / And You Thought Your Family Was Bad: Genesis and Turning Hate to Love
Parashat Vayechi / Jan 7
Rabbi Ed Feinstein — Visiting Scholar
And You Thought Your Family Was Bad: Genesis and Turning Hate to Love
We're overjoyed to welcome some of the most engaging, powerful teachers in the US and Israel. Many are long time Kitchen favorites, some newer to us but all known for their ability to connect Torah to our lives right now. We'll spend a whole shabbat with these thinkers, like a retreat without having to pack.
Parashat Vayechi / Jan 6 / Challahs in the Ark: Believing in the Games of God
Parashat Vayechi / Jan 6
Rabbi Ed Feinstein — Visiting Scholar
Challahs in the Ark: Believing in the Games of God
We're overjoyed to welcome some of the most engaging, powerful teachers in the US and Israel. Many are long time Kitchen favorites, some newer to us but all known for their ability to connect Torah to our lives right now. We'll spend a whole shabbat with these thinkers, like a retreat without having to pack.
Hanukkah & Parashat Vayeshev / Dec 16 / Ineffective Altruism
Hanukkah & Parashat Vayeshev / Dec 16
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Ineffective Altruism
But never mind that, the angel was right, is right
There is something divine in those dreams of Joseph’s
Don’t doubt yourself, Joseph
Don’t doubt all that was and is in those dreams
Don’t doubt your ability to complete your missions in life
Parashat Vayishlach / Dec 10 / Room for all
Parashat Vayishlach / Dec 10
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Room For All
Jacob was standing close by and could hear it all
Esau’s pain at not receiving his intended blessing, true, but also
Esau’s determined insistence that he be blessed nevertheless
That there is always another blessing
That there is room for us all
Parashat Vayetze / Dec 2 / Praying in the Dark
Parashat Vayetze / Dec 2
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Praying in the dark
What is the kind of prayer we can only pray as ourselves, and not if we are pretending to be someone else?
What is the kind of prayer we pray when we are stopped, unable to run towards the next destination?
What is the kind of prayer we most need in the dark?
Parashat Chayyei Sarah / Nov 18 / Is Anyone Home?
Parashat Chayyei Sarah / Nov 18
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Is Anyone Home?
And this kind of epic repetition, death and life, and death and life again is so fundamental, it is so enormous we don’t even see it
Even when it is framing one torah portion
Even when, especially when, it is framing our lives
Parashat Vayera / Nov 12 / Now We Start From Here
Parashat Vayera / Nov 12
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Now We Start From Here
Whatever it was that we encountered,
It sends shock waves through our lives
And now our lives have a new starting point
A new origin
We used to start from “there”
But now we start from “here.”
Parashat Lech Lecha / Nov 4 / Who Hates Us Now?
Parashat Lech Lecha / Nov 4
Rabbi Noa Kushner
Who Hates Us Now?
And I really want to know because in this moment in history,
I'm increasingly worried that we may be carrying the wrong things with us
And leaving behind some of the ideas we really, really need.