In the Shabbat following the massacre of Jews in Israel, we read the story of Adam and Eve. After eating the forbidden fruit, they attempt to hide in the garden. G-d calls out, “Ayeka?” (Where are you ...

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In a world of constant comparison and societal pressures, it is easy to forget this spiritual truth. In the Jewish tradition, we observe gratitude not only as a feeling, but as a response to a sacred ...

In the Torah (Genesis 3:9), right after Adam and Eve eat the fruit from the forbidden tree, they sense God’s presence and run to hide among the trees. God doesn’t rage or leave. God simply responds by ...

This story is told by Howard Schwartz who based it on the tale by Zevulon Qort from Ben Zion Asherov of Afghanistan (I have edited his original telling): “There was once a Jew who went out into the ...

This past High Holiday season (2013-5774) I asked myself and my congregation one central question in three different ways: Ayeka? (Lit. – “Where are you?”). The question, of course, is not about one’s ...

NEW YORK — Eighteen months ago, students at the Bi-Cultural Day School in Stamford, Connecticut, received a relatively flat account of Moses and the 12 spies. They learned the who, what, where, when ...