Nitzavim-Vayelech: The Great Commission Reinterpreted
In our Besorah reading today, we read the final verses written by the Talmid Matityahu, the disciple Matthew, of Yeshua’s final words to...
Ki Teitzei - Amalek, Yibum, and the Vulnerable
Good morning. This parsha contains one of the most troubling mitzvot in the entire Torah: Mechiyat Amalek – the command to erase the...
Learning To SEE
We need to SEE people with God’s eyes. We need to love them with God’s heart.
My Tisha b'Av - Hope
Hey, so as part of my rabbinical degree requirements I have to do a humanitarian service project. I won’t get into the details overly...
The Esther-Yeshua Connection
My God, my God, why have You abandoned me; why so far from delivering me and from my anguished roaring? My God, I cry by day—You answer...
Valuing Difference
In our Torah reading today, when Moshe Rabeinu was about to relinquish his leadership over the children of Israel, he addressed God in a...
Searching for G-d in the Chaos of 2020
We, humanity, are in pain. We are in sorrow. We’re in a state of confusion. The world is turned upside-down. COVID-19, economic...
Being Content With Where We Are
Parshat Shelach Our parsha this week speaks of the 12 spies being sent into the Land. Two of them, Yehoshuah and Kalev, give an...
Praying With Our Feet
In our Besorah reading this week Yeshua speaks of the birth pangs of Messiah. He warns his talmidim that there will be great troubles in...
In Solidarity Against Racism
This morning, Rabbi Isaac and I sent the following letter to leaders and pastors of African American churches in the local Ann Arbor and...
