Gates, Locked and Unlocked: A Yom Kippur Text Study
November 17, 2016
This text study examines the vivid image of gates closing at the end of Yom Kippur.
Rabbi Toba Spitzer has served Congregation Dorshei Tzedek in West Newton, Mass. since 1997. She served as president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Assocation from 2007-2009.
This text study examines the vivid image of gates closing at the end of Yom Kippur.
The Ten Commandments tell us not to “covet.” What does that mean? This study sheet explores sources related to this issue.
This study sheet provides a variety of sources on the spiritual practices surrounding Passover (Pesakh).
Rabbi Toba Spitzer explores the obstacles to prayer posed by stale language about God, and suggests new language that may ease our way in finding connection.
This study sheet on teshuvah and compassion draws our attention to the interplay between our ability to forgive others, and God’s ability to forgive us.
This study sheet contains two parables of the King and the returning son by the Baal Shem Tov, as well one of Kafka’s parables, “The Imperial Messenger,” which has some intriguing echoes of and stark contrasts with the first two stories.
Rabbi Toba Spitzer assembles textual sources on the redigging of ancestral wells in Parashat Toldot.
A text study on the evolution of Hanukkah. What is the miracle, and what is the light?
Sources, ancient and modern, on the nature of the light of Hanukkah
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