Nov 15, 2013

#vaYishlach #ParshaTweet: Wrestling with who you dream to be - and then revealing your vulnerable self to others can inspire #healingtears.

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Nov 14, 2013

Sin [a #poem]

Sin
© Rabbi Menachem Creditor

There is just so much need,
God, so much need.

Good news:
Your infinite Power flows
through our finite bodies.

Bad news:
We don't remember how precious,
urgent
that renders every second
we have on earth.

Are we equipped to
unleash Your Love through
God-shaped holes
in our hearts and
truly transform the world that is
into the world to come?

The world that must be!!!

Do our short attention spans
mean we are doomed to
always only fix things a little?

So much need, dear God.
I weep with the pain,
rage at the pain,
redouble strength through double the tears,
knowing it won't be enough.
It will never be enough.

But one life, God, one life…

Any waste of our precious time
even one drop of a soul's power
is a sin.
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Nov 13, 2013

NEW PODCAST: "Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Menachem Creditor: Hunting, Kashrut, Conversion and Circumcision"

NEW PODCAST
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Menachem Creditor: Hunting, Kashrut, Conversion and Circumcision
Nov. 13, 2013 at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, CA
this presentation was originally part of "A Guide to Judaism: A Class for All Considering Conversion"

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Hold your children. Hold each other. Love everyone like there's no tomorrow so that there can be one. #buildwithlove

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In a world beset from every angle, #hope is a choice you are called to make. Laugh your way into the strength it takes to #healtheworld.

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Nov 12, 2013

How amazing it can be to meet with people where they are, see what they see, and know that somewhere within the Divine image is contained.

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Nov 11, 2013

A Prayer After Typhoon Haiyan

A Prayer After Typhoon Haiyan
© Rabbi Menachem Creditor

click here to donate to AJWS' Philppines relief fund

Elohei haRuchot, God of the Winds,

Yet again, we are pummeled by nature. Yet again, we call out to You.

Winds roared, waters surged, and now streets are yet again paved with bodies. Buildings crumbled, towns erased, and our sisters and brothers - Your Images, each and every one - have neither food nor water nor medicine. Please God, enough. How much ache can Your heart and ours endure?

We turn to You, Adonai, because, as we recommit to helping others, we are so very, very hurt ourselves, pummeled to the soul by yet another fierce storm, perhaps the fiercest yet. We ask, yet again, for Your comforting strength as we, Your partners, work to create order amidst chaos.

In the face of devastation, we join voices in prayers for safety, resilience and hope. We call out to every fellow human being to care more than before, to overpower destruction with resolve, and to build the world that is into the world to come, heart by heart.

God, be with us as we utilize every network at our disposal to bring relief to the Philippines and beyond. Be with those on the ground as they cradle lives new and old, sheltering souls and bodies. Be with those studying humanity's impact on nature so that we can learn from our mistakes. Open our hearts to generously and wisely support those best prepared to respond to this chaos. Be with us all, God. Please.

We ask You, Adonai, to comfort us, strengthen us, and support us as we rebuild, yet again.

May all this be Your will.

Amen.
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