A Shabbat Message
10/03/2025 04:58:47 PM
Dear Friends,
What a week! This Yom Kippur has left me spiritually uplifted in the best possible way—standing with so many of you, working through the hardest parts of this past year, feeling lighter for what's ahead. This spiritual high doesn't come from the prayers...Read more...
A Shabbat Message
09/26/2025 12:19:23 PM
Shanah Tovah,
One of my favorite traditions over the high holidays at B’nai Abraham is to sit in the sanctuary, where all of you sit, for the last hour of the upstairs service. Once the family service and the subsequent schmoozing has concluded, I...Read more...
A Shabbat Message
02/14/2025 10:56:22 AM
Shabbat Shalom,
The Ten Commandments in this week’s parasha, Yitro, is a bit of a misnomer. Don’t get me wrong, most of them are indeed commandments, but the first “commandment” is arguably not a commandment at all but rather a declaration:
“I the Lord am your God...Read more...
A Shabbat Message
02/12/2025 10:55:11 AM
Dear Friends,
This week’s Torah portion takes us back to our first taste of freedom, when we leave Egypt and begin the long journey to our promised land. Though we had no GPS or printed maps, we had something even better. The Torah tells us that “God went before [the...Read more...
A Shabbat Message
01/31/2025 03:04:39 PM
Shabbat Shalom,
As I walked into the building this morning, I ran into Peter Klein, past-president of B’nai Abraham and keeper of the in-house archives. Amidst boxes of files, pictures, and everything in between from the past 100+ years, Peter pulled for me a document...Read more...