Watch: Banish Darkness
December 12, 2023
In this poem, Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein shares both emotional anguish and his source of hope.
In this poem, Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein shares both emotional anguish and his source of hope.
Poet Ellen Blum Barish reminds us that oil from olives once helped us rededicate the temple, and so, too, do they bring light into our dark world.
How do we celebrate a miracles and light when so many Israeli hostages remain underground, without access to sunlight? Rabbi Amber Powers offers a way, on the eighth night of Hanukkah, to hold pain and joy.
Hanukkah isn’t a time of hiding – it’s a time to let our light shine, teaches Rabbi Isaac Saposnik.
Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer shares how she is using her creative spark to generate new light each day.
Marques Hollie, a Reconstructionist Rabbinical College student, shares that even in times of extended darkness, each day can bring light, if we just look for the miracles of right now.
In this message for the first night of Hanukkah, Rabbi Deborah Waxman illuminates the blessing of reciting blessings.
Laynie Solomon, passionate teacher of Torah, explains how they draw strength from the study of Jewish texts and how Halakhah can be liberating for Queer and Trans Jews.
Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann writes about a very personal situation, yet her message also applies to the state of the world: finding hope when there’s little to no evidence that things will soon improve.
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