From Our Rabbinic Intern’s Desk The Changing Focus of Passover in Our Day: From Pandemic to Ukraine Another year has come and gone, and Passover/Pesach will soon be upon us once again. Nisan, the month of Passover, and not Tishrei, the month of Rosh HaShanah, is referred to in the...
Another Tishah B’Av: On Jacob and Esau, Ukraine and Russia (delivered by Rabbi Sacks at a service for Ukraine on March 13, 2022)[1] To frame why we are here in a Jewish perspective, I would like to share a passage from the Jerusalem Talmud. The passage dates from well...
Expressions of Peace: A Journey and Prayer through Jewish Texts (A Contemporary Piyyut,[1] first recited on March 13, 2022[2]) Rabbi J.B. Sacks Our tradition teaches: “The sword comes to the world because of a delay of justice and through perversion of justice.”[3] God cries out: “Oh, my suffering,...
Dear Am HaYam Family, It is with heavy heart that we approach Shabbat, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We are concerned about the potential for this conflict to deepen. We are concerned about the potential for other countries to enter the conflict on one side of the other. We are...