Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld

Genesis No Guarantees for the Righteous

Parshat Vayishlach, Genesis 32:3-36:43 The Torah is famously laconic about the e...

Community Blog While Standing on One Foot: A Compassion Practice

I have spent the last week grieving privately. Horrified — nauseated, actually...

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Holidays More Than One Thing: Purim and Reflections of the Image of God

Genesis Wandering and Welcoming

This week’s Torah reading begins with the command, “Lech lecha”: Go forth....

Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld

Genesis Blessing Our Counting

In Jewish sacred time, this is the season of counting. Every day, from the secon...

Community Blog A Blessing for a New Year of Teaching and Learning

The Sefat Emet associates the be’er — the ever-flowing well of water...