“That’s why, once every seven years in fact, this year, the one we started yesterday — the Torah demands that both we and the land take a Sabbatical. In Hebrew, it’s called a Shmita Year — a year of release.” Rabbi Auerbach, September 2021 This was exactly what I needed to hear, this on the second day… Read more »
We knew this moment would come. But it still hurts.
A Re-Reading of the Torah portion Tazria-Metzora for Survivors of Sexual Violence
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“I wanted to tell her about the look on my father’s face when I refused to accompany him to the Kol Nidre service…”
Two of my pregnancies ended in miscarriage, and the other two resulted in the greatest joys of my life. But all four were a burden — emotionally and physically, personally and professionally.
When I grab the mic for 4 minutes, I break the illusion that the narratives worth listening to are ones we’ve already heard.
In a story about gentile Albanians protecting Jewish ones, I saw what my Muslim great grandparents, living in Nazi-occupied North Macedonia in the 1940s, experienced.
For Ori, and for all the Black babies who light hanukkiahs now…maybe this is the year we can celebrate that they, themselves, are fire.
