Dear Or Zarua members and friends, Shabbat Shuvah Shalom! This special Sabbath between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur is for meaningful reconciliations, prayerfulness and repentance. It is also very much about the delight of setting a course of keeping Shabbat… Read More »
Melting clocks is an image that I associate with the Pandemic. Oy, the meltdown! Time is supposed to be measurable, and for the Jewish People we gather in holy spaces to mark time. We call those shehecheyanu moments. The contents… Read More »
Click HERE for a video of Josh Gold sounding the shofar, for Elul inspiration. Click HERE for a D’var Torah for Parshat Netzavim-Vayeilekh: God, Not Us, Blesses the New Month of Tishrei.… Read More »
Click HERE for Get Your Gift Basket Ready to explore the Ramban’s commentary on preparing the first fruits offering in Parshat Ki Tavo. Click HERE for The Tzedakah Imperative in Elul – Beyond An Accounting of the Soul, a sermon… Read More »
Click HERE for a Shabbat sermon: Because I Said So – It’s Good for Your Soul. What does the verse about shooing away a mother bird come to teach us according to the Ramban and Rambam? Click HERE for a… Read More »
Please click HERE for: The Shofar Calls: Hodesh Elul Tov! Click HERE for a video D’var Torah for Rosh Hodesh Elul and Shabbat Shoftim: Revolutionary Thinking: When Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Ben Franklin and Menahem Mendel Levin Speak to the Heart… Read More »
Click HERE for a video Torah Study: Tradition & Change regarding Deuteronomy, Chapter 13:1-4 with the Ramban’s commentary. Click HERE for a video D’var Torah: Recognizing Blessings on Parshat Re’eh. Click HERE for a self-guided study sheet Listen Deeply, Awaken… Read More »
Click HERE for a sermon: “Holy Eating” related to Parshat Ekev, Nancy Wolfson-Moche’s new book, Vegetables for Breakfast, and S.Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize winning novella And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight which the OZ Book Club discussed on August… Read More »
Click HERE for Rabbi Bolton teaching: Shema Yisrael – God Is One Despite All the Disagreements in the World. The first paragraph of the Shema appears in this week’s Torah portion. Click HERE for: When We Mourned On Tisha B’Av… Read More »
Click HERE for a short video D’var Torah: The Power of Words. (7 minutes) Click HERE for Rabbi Bolton’s sermon on Parshat Devarim: Moses’ Farewell Address – First Inspiration. (22 minutes) Click HERE for Rabbi Bolton and his son, Ziv, … Read More »