If you see me on a regular basis, you’ve seen the purple CamelBak water bottle that I carry everywhere. It may surprise you to learn that for most of my life I hated (I mean really HATED) drinking plain water. There was nothing fun or flavorful about it, and it was a huge chore to force down anything other than Diet Coke.
We lament that our modern world is devoid of those bigger-than-life “parting of the sea” moments, but the thing is . . . parenting is full of them. This too is Torah.
Friday, January 15: A Hunger for Freedom. Saturday. January 16: Feedback: How the Message Repeats. Recorded and edited by Ed Kraus.
As an executive chef, my Uncle Larry gets culinary inspiration from a variety of places, including my Nana’s recipe box. Of course in order to use family recipes for commercial purposes, he has had to make some serious measurement conversions.
Tuesday night, a lot of Americans watched President Obama's last State of the Union speech. The audience was figured at just over 31 million viewers. On Wednesday night, a lot more people were gathered by the keyboard or television, checking to see if they had won $1.5 billion dollars in the record Powerball lottery.
Stories we tell over and over again stick with us; they become part of who we are. As we we affirm each year in the retelling of the Exodus, the Torah is a part of our people not just because it was given to us, but because we continue to give it.
Rabbi Kosak's Moroccan Story from "Shabbat Around the World:Morocco" event on January 8. Rabbi Kosak's D'var Torah from Saturday, January 9th, Bat Mitzvah of Brianna Coughlin. Recorded and edited by Ed Kraus.
