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 | Feb 4, 2021 | February, Message from the Leadership, Newsletter
CCM Community Update: Discovering Practice’s Vibrant Edge, by Dr. Beulah Trey and Isha Strasser In the December Newsletter, we published an article which communicated our intent to Build a Vibrant Graduate Community. We reported that so far, CCM has graduated a...
by mussar | Feb 4, 2021 | February, Message from the Leadership, Newsletter
The Call of Anavah at Purim, By Rabbi Joshua Boettiger The middah of humility, or anavah, challenges us to treat every person as a potential teacher. Initially, we might understand this as simply being open to the possibility of learning something from each encounter...
by mussar | Jan 6, 2021 | January, Message from the Leadership, Newsletter
This year we are entering 2021 at the exact same moment that we are entering a new book of Torah. The transition from Genesis into Exodus is a hinge moment, and not just in the outer narrative of the Israelites’ adventure. If we understand Torah (in part) as a roadmap...
by mussar | Dec 1, 2020 | December, Message from the Leadership, Newsletter
Rededication to What? By Herb Levine, Vice-Chair Most of us have been taught that Chanukah means dedication. We usually speak of Chanukah in terms of rededication – a return to questing for holiness after a period of degradation and desecration. My question as a...
