A Hanukkah message

https://ravjeremy.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/a-candle-is-not-a-military-parade/

The Ruach Doen’t Leave Them

Breshit Rabbah 1:3“For You are great and do wonders” (Psalm 86:10). Rabbi Tanchum said, “with a ball, if it has a whole the size of a pin point, all the ruach leaves it, while for a human, made with so many cavities and so many holes, the ruach doesn’t leave them. Who can do that? ‘You, God, alone’ (Psalm 86:10).”

https://ravjeremy.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/the-ruach-doent-leave-them/

There's a prayer that asks "What are we" and asserts our near-nothingness. Humanists tend not to like it. It occurs to me that Hillel tells us when "what are we" applies, when he says, "If I am only for myself, what am I?" See my comment on Pirkei Avot 1:14 and the rest of the chapter here: https://ravjeremy.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/comments-on-pirkei-avot-chapter-1/

Love how the diversity of these new #rabbis from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is visibly evident.

איזה סכנה אם כלום לא השתנה אם נהיה כמו לפני גם אחרי המלחמה - אביתר בנאי
What a danger if nothing's changed, if we're the same as before after the war - Evyatar Banai

If you care about climate and happen to be Jewish, you should know about Dayenu. (And my wife shows up in one of the pictures) https://youtu.be/bLJkcdMWaJo?si=SsPrHCByyMa3B2nX

Highlight of Black Jewish scholars conference at UConn for me was artist-in-residence Jessica Valoris https://www.jessicavaloris.com

This #Connecticut gem is under threat, along with homes and businesses all along the coast, but Gov. #Lamont keeps pushing fossil fuel expansion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/arts/design/mystic-seaport-museum-sea-level-rise.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@serge so aggravating!

“The price of abridging the defining freedoms of American higher education will be paid by our students and our society.” Happy to see this statement from >170 #college and #university presidents. Hope #UConn signs soon. https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement

Listening to Schoenfeld’s very Jewish Trio for Clarinet, Violin & Piano w/ Kopatchinskaja, Bieri, Leschenko. Never heard it before. A pleasant revelation!

Kidnapping people at their citizenship hearing for supporting the rights of both Palestinians and Jews? We’re in big f***ing trouble. #MohzenMahdawi
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025-04-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/jewish-israeli-peers-condemn-arrest-of-palestinian-columbia-student-over-activism/00000196-3885-dc0f-adb6-bdd5abb80000

Shalom friends! Welcome to #DafReactions Makkot 7: Injustice System
In which young Gen Z legislator Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah gives us an iconic #Talmud quote about ethical legal systems vs. tyranny, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon do a little virtue signaling, and I do some… math?!
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https://youtube.com/shorts/tzMNCQH2dAg?feature=share

#memes #humour

@kovy ok, now we get to divisions witin the Jewish people: I told myself : make more charoset so there’s enough for matzah cereal every morning!

שבת שלום וחג שמח!

@peribotsarah oh, the country Columbia! Still shocking and awful, but in a different way

Shalom, friends! The Angel of Death was pretty salty about “The ones who got away,” the VIPS in Jewish lore who ascended to heaven while still alive. But that’s his beef, not mine! This is the saga of my favorite immortal, the personification of memory, music, and storytelling in Judaism, and the (ironically) unsung heroine of the Exodus narrative, Serach Bat Asher!
Welcome to The Song of Serach: A #JewishLoreReactions #Passover Special! 🎶

https://youtu.be/AY0Z1nTghS8

Sharing my #Passover cleaning mix: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RF1U26jEw71cLNXzXXtU4?si=TGsrR8fkT-y2hGpijLj0BQ