This rabbinic quarterly update looks back to August, September and October which were rewarding and enjoyable, contrary to a teaching in the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Yoma 29a that “the end of the summer is worse than the beginning of summer.”…

The best I can do at encapsulating the Jewish concept of repentance is “I’m sorry and feel badly for what I did wrong, and I’m trying hard not to do it again.” As I compose this quarterly rabbinic message, we…

Counting is a fundamental human activity – many of us count the number of e-mails in our in-boxes (this message describing my recent rabbi-ing activities is planned as one of only four per year), and starting on the second night…

While last Shabbat could have been called “Groundhog Shabbat,” this coming weekend marks the first of a series of “named” Sabbaths to help us prepare for the holiday of Passover. Shabbat Shekalim is followed in short order by Shabbats Zachor,…