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Download Printable Version Though life is troubled, we are here; Despite the sorrow, we are here. We know of pain and failure; Still we are here. For the sun can shine on a winter day, And a warm embrace bring…
Continue readingDownload Printable Version Opening Dance Reader #2 Our world is a place of wonder! We must pause —- To see the ways it changes. At this time, as the warmth of spring Replaces the cold of winter, We have here…
Continue readingGathered together in a community of concern, we turn the vast reaches of the universe into home.
Continue readingA critique of the Shabbath service of the Union Prayer Book can concern itself with two distinct questions. One is how well the service carries out the principles upon which the Union Prayer Book is based; the other is whether…
Continue readingDownload Printable Version The Failure of Seventh-Day Shabbat In the 1960s, this writer introduced a new concept of Shabbat: Shabbat as a state of being.(1) This is an appropriate time to focus anew on this concept, which will be referred to…
Continue readingIn a Journal article entitled “Two Concepts of Shabbat” (Fall 1987), Alvin Reines argues in favor of a notion of Shabbat which he terms “State-of-Being Shabbat” over the normative Shabbat, which he terms “Seventh-Day Shabbat.”
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This is a Sabbath moment, a moment of divine quest. Together we have created a sanctuary of Israel. We are invested with the sounds of the spirit. We are gathered in mutual affirmation to seek the Sabbath of the soul.
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The genius of Genesis enthralls the mind and delights the imagination. Existence triumphant over nothingness, cosmos victorious over chaos, silence the understanding and still the emotions.
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The words of Kohelet, Sage of ancient Israel: Two are better than one; for if they fall the one will lift up the other.
Continue readingDownload Printable Version In a discussion of Rosh Hashanah, the holiday that symbolizes time and the inevitable changes that accompany time’s passage, it is appropriate to discuss a somewhat paradoxical phenomenon frequent among the Jews. This is the resistance to…
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