The Still, Small Voice
Jun 10, 2016 By Sam Blustin | Commentary | Shavuot
In 1 Kings 19, Elijah experiences a divine intervention: an angel brings him food, and then, on Mount Sinai, God passes by him. But God was not in the wind, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but 鈥渢he still, small voice.鈥� This chapter includes allusions to other moments of divine revelation, which we highlighted in this song, including the giving of the Torah.
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Sight: Revelation at the Yiddish Theater
Jun 6, 2016 By Stefanie Halpern | Short Video | Shavuot
From the 5776 Receiving Torah with All Our Senses series.
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Fragrance: The Aroma of the Torah
Jun 6, 2016 By Daniel Nevins | Short Video | Shavuot
From the 5776 Receiving Torah with All Our Senses series.
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Touch: Beyond the Mountain鈥檚 Edge
Jun 6, 2016 By Jan Uhrbach | Short Video | Shavuot
From the 5776 Receiving Torah with All Our Senses series.
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Hearing: Reading the Torah and Singing its Praises
Jun 6, 2016 By Nancy Abramson | Short Video | Shavuot
From the 5776 Receiving Torah with All Our Senses series.
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Taste: Sweet in our Mouths
Jun 6, 2016 By Eliezer B. Diamond z”l | Short Video | Shavuot
From the 5776 Receiving Torah with All Our Senses series.
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Songs of Joy, Counterpoints of Tragedy
May 6, 2016 By Jonathan Lipnick | Commentary | Aharei Mot
Perhaps the Torah speaks now, in the spring of atonement, because we know so well our songs of joy carry with them counterpoints of tragedy.
Why should we be reading about Yom Kippur around the time Pesah is celebrated? These two holidays seem so different, and yet, in her poem 鈥�Aharei Mot,鈥� Ruth Brin was on to something, leading me to wonder: How was I to understand the interrelationship between Yom Kippur and Pesah? How was I to take Ruth Brin鈥檚 instructive words to heart?
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Why We Rejoice
Sep 23, 2010 By Rabbi Abigail Treu | Commentary | Text Study | Sukkot
We are blessed with so much鈥攗ntil we are not. Which is why we don’t count chickens before they hatch or rejoice before the crops are in: it ain’t over till it’s over.
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