From the Rabbi for Kehillah May 2014: By the time you read this Pesach will be a memory – the story of the exodus from Egypt told once...

REMEMBER AMALEK Who were the Amalekites? A nomadic tribe who attacked and attempted to despoil the Israelites who had just crossed...

The Endless Journey The endless journey no pathways just a tangle of weeds and stinging nettles stumps and burrows ambushing my feet....

From the night of the communal Seder or for most people from the second night of Pesach we start counting the Omer, which is a 49 day...

WHERE ARE WE HEADING? We have celebrated Pesach – the anniversary of the day we left Egypt. The date is known. 15th. of Nissan. But when...

We are in the middle of counting the Omer, the 49-day cycle of days, seven weeks, which take us from Pesach to Shavuot. It is an...

עבדי הזמן עבדי עבדים הם. עבד ה׳ הוא לבד חופשי. Slaves of time are slaves of slaves. Only the servant of God is free. (Yehuda Halevi) Most...

Why do we count the Omer? There are so many possible reasons to give, but one is that we are structuring the time between Pesach and...

CHAMETZ UMATZAH? The first of the Four Questions – remember them? - points out that what is special about Pesach is NOT that we eat...

Pesach is now behind us, and the fifty days between that Festival and Shavuot mark an extraordinary number of commemorations that range...