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Next Year in Person
by Dr. David Sanders What is it like to meet someone in person who you have only spoken with over the phone, chatted with via text or seen on a ZOOM call? Our daughters returned to the classroom this week after a year of being at home. They had never met their teachers or many […]
My Spiritual Journey
by Melanie Gruenwald In early 2020, before we realized COVID was a pandemic, before we spent a year with limited physical and social interactions, David Sanders published Pass Over to Freedom: A Spiritual Journey, Kabbalah Experience’s Haggadah. Reviewing the pages of the book, and preparing for my spiritual journey in these weeks leading up to […]
The Infinite Gambit
by Dr. David Sanders Along with some 100 million viewers we watched The Queens Gambit this past year. The title refers to the opening sacrifice Beth Harmon, the aspiring queen of chess, offers the Russian world chess champion. It also has a metaphoric meaning for a young woman whose life has been filled with the […]
You Might Not Live Through This
by Melanie Gruenwald March 24th of 2016 (on Purim!) my vibrant, bright-eyed, 11 year old son, Koby, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an incurable brain tumor. The future we assumed would be his suddenly evaporated. We had in front of us significant recovery, as a result of the damage caused by the tumor breaking, and we […]
V is for Vaccine
by Melanie Gruenwald V is for vaccine. For vulnerability. For victory. For a virus that does not want to be recognized. Every conversation I have lately, seems to have the common theme- are you vaccinated, when are you getting vaccinated, where are you on ‘the list,’ how are you feeling if you have been vaccinated, […]
Promises to Keep
by Dr. David Sanders Presidential inaugurations, like so many formal celebrations, tend to be formulaic. In 1961, John Kennedy broke with tradition by inviting the poet, Robert Frost, to share an original poem written for the occasion. It all went wrong. Frost, who was then eighty six years old, was unable, in the bright sunlight […]
Light, Color, and Tikkun Olam
by Janice Lines I have been thinking about what we discussed in class a couple of weeks ago, that spiritual pursuit and education is a privilege that not all get to enjoy. We felt humbled and somewhat ashamed that we are able to take classes, attend workshops, read and study, work on our faith and […]
Smelling Our Way
by Dr. David Sanders I thought it was a joke to learn that Google is beta testing the delivery of smells via your computer. What this will mean is that when you look up the word “rose” you can not only see an image or read about a rose, you can smell it. Covid-19 diminished […]
Breathe.
Melanie Gruenwald So many times, we experience life, thinking “I’ll feel better when… ”I’ll feel calmer when…” “I’ll feel less anxious when….” And “when” comes, and we’re all still feeling a bit muddled… what is going on? My first thought is the need to take more deep breaths and hydrate. We need to get out […]