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.
I write to you after a break that took me first to New York for some professional development, and then to the central coast of California for a family reunion. We had a wonderful time catching up, cooking, hiking in Big Sur, playing football with the boys, and in general recharging after the fast paced days that typify so many of our lives.
