Well, another new year is upon us. And, as I do every year, I wonder “what’s so new about it?” The world continues to turn on its axis. The sun continues to rise each day (although I do note that every day is hotter than the same day in years past) and set each night, […]
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Shavuos/Shavuot is one of the three festivals of ingathering, some of our most ancient holidays. On these holidays – Succos/Sukkot, Pesakh and Shavuos/Shavuot, Israelites brought offerings to the Temple to support the priests. Those who had no animals, fruit or grain to bring could buy sacrificial animals at the Temple. (In the Christian Bible, the
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With Purim over, it’s time for me to start updating Tri-Valley Cultural Jews’ Secular Humanistic Passover Haggadah for our community seder April 27. It has always been pretty easy to include references to current events that can be informed by the Pesakh story, but this year, I’ve got a problem. For many years, our haggadah,
Purim is one of those holidays where we don’t tell the whole story. (https://secularjewishweddings.com/why-do-we-tell-only-half-the-story/) But it is more than that we don’t tell the whole story. It’s that we don’t see the whole people. The book of Esther, on which the holiday is based, is a historical fiction, written about 400 years after the events
Happy chanukah (conventional), happy khanukah (my preferred), a freylikhn khanike (Yiddishist) from the Seid-Gates garage door. Let’s all figure out how we can bring more light to the world, tonight and every night. Here are some ideas for your candle-lighting dedications this year: 1st night – this candle is dedicated to the one life we
