Seeking Forgiveness

September 24, 2012

To all those I might have slighted, offended, or upset during the year 5772, Please let me know. Really. I cannot give a blanket apology for unknown sins/transgressions/mistakes. For in doing so, I am unable to correct my behaviour in the future. And I would be unable to make a direct confession to God. Or […]

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Happy New Year

September 19, 2012

I’ll have Rosh Hashanah reflections later this week. In the meantime, take a look at my latest piece over at the Rabbis Without Borders blog, hosted by myjewishlearning.com.

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#BlogElul 28 – Taking Full Responsibility

September 15, 2012

Dear Children, When you look back on your childhood, I had wanted you to recall fun experiences. And then I became a parent with actual kids. Not the fantasy kids. And so I became a real mom. Not the fantasy mom I’d envisioned. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t manage to be […]

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#BlogElul 27 — Finding the Good in the Evil Midst

September 14, 2012

As a general rule, I don’t think that the world is comprised of good and evil. Just as the great twentieth-century theologian, Martin Buber, divided the world into the “holy and not-yet holy,” I think that the majority of people fall into the “good and not-yet good” categories. Or, at the very least, that is […]

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#BlogElul 26 – Seven Steps

September 13, 2012

*this first appeared at Frume Sarah’s World in 2010 Removing my contact lenses, I asked God to forgive me for all the times I had been blind to the pain of others. Cleaning beneath my nails, I asked God to forgive me for all the times I had neglected to raise my hands to bring […]

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