by mussar | Apr 1, 2021 | April, Message from the Leadership, Newsletter
The Slonimer Rebbe, Rabbi Shalom Noach Barzovsky (1911–2000), said that the central thing of these 49 days of Counting the Omer is each day, slowly but surely, to go a little further out of Egypt. It’s not dramatic and at least day by day, the distance we cover does...
by mussar | Apr 1, 2021 | April, Message from the Chair, Newsletter
I don’t know about you, but in my family, it was always a struggle to get the kids to sit still through a meaningful seder, but I wanted to teach them the central message – that “In every generation we are obligated to see ourselves as though we personally had escaped...
by mussar | Apr 1, 2021 | April, Newsletter, Student Platform
In this Torah portion, God continues to describe the different laws of sacrifices. A distinction is made between sin offerings, burnt offerings, and homage offerings, with each following its own process–all carefully elucidated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai,...
by mussar | Apr 1, 2021 | April, Highlight on Madrichim, Newsletter
Marty Towbin is a Madrich at Temple Emek Shalom in Ashland, Oregon, where he centers his approach to Mussar through CCM’s concept of semipermeability. Marty explained semipermeability as a “deep calm presence;” a way of being “simultaneously aware of myself and the...
