All Endings are Also Beginnings

by Melanie Gruenwald A Primer on Holding Opposites Today we concluded our Kabbalah of Mitch Albom class with a teaching he shares in both The Five People You’ll Meet in Heaven and The Next Person You’ll Meet in Heaven. All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. ~ Mitch […]
For All These Things

by Melanie Gruenwald For all these things A song by Naomi Shemer Every bee that brings the honey Needs a sting to be complete And we all must learn to taste the bitter with the sweet. On this fifth secular anniversary of our son, Koby’s (of blessed memory), death—showing up to class was the first […]
A Broken Halleluyah

Rabbi Koby Gruenwald z”l died this past Friday, January 19, survived by his father and mother, sister and brother. His bereft congregation and community mourned his loss this past Sunday. He was 13 years old. Rabbi Koby is remembered for the dignity and kindness he extended to all who crossed his path, his exuberance for […]