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At the Confluence of Shabbat haGadol’s Expansiveness & the Narrowness of War

Shabbat HaGadol (Big/Expansive) is the Shabbat that precedes Passover. This year, as war will cast a shadow on our seder tables and the festival, can we lean into expansiveness? This evening, we enter Shabbat haGadol, the Big/Enlarged Shabbat that precedes Passover. May we all experience an expansive renewing of spirit in this vast Shabbat, and pause before entering the week…

Sefirat haOmer ~ A Counting from Pesach to Shavuot

Each year we have the opportunity to count the Omer ~ a counting of the span of time ~ seven weeks of seven days + One ~ from the second day of Passover (a holiday of redemption in the words of early rabbinic sages) to Shavuot (a holiday the early rabbis connected with revelation; in diaspora, we no longer brought…