Only five days after Yom Kippur, we enter Sukkot, one of the three pilgrimage holidays. Sukkot is the harvest festival and recalls our ancestors’ journey through the wilderness. Rosh Hashanah asks us to awaken.Yom Kippur asks us to return.Sukkot asks us to...
Shabbat Shalom, Shana Tova U’Metuka to All 🔯🙏💐שבת שלום ושנה טובה ומתוקה 🍎🍯❤️ On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, September 9, 2018, Asaf and I released our song “13th Sphere.” In 1999 I had a dream. I was walking at night on a hill facing the Wailing Wall. The night was...
Shabbat Shalom and a Peaceful Weekend to All 🙏💐🔯 Tomorrow, on the last Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah, we read Parashat Nitzavim–Vayeilech, ניצבים–וילךDeuteronomy 29:9–31:30 After forty years in the wilderness, the Israelites stand at the threshold of the Promised Land....
“You shall take from the first of all the fruit of the earth…”— Deuteronomy 26:2 וְהָיָ ה כִּי־תָבוֹא אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה וִירִשְׁתָּהּ וְיָשַׁבְתָּ בָּהּ׃וְלָקַחְתָּ מֵרֵאשִׁית כָּל־פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר תָּבִיא מֵאַרְצְךָ אֲשֶׁר...
Last week we drove up to Hollywood for my oral surgery with Dr. Daneshgar, whom I’ve known and trusted for 25 years. I’m still not sure what was harder, the procedure or the three-and-a-half-hour drive through heavy traffic. But I’m deeply grateful for Dr. D’s tender...
This week’s Torah portion, Re’eh, רְאֵה, “See,” begins with a choice: “See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God… and the curse, if you do not obey…” (Deuteronomy 11:26–28) The message is clear:...
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