by mussar | Apr 27, 2021 | May, Newsletter, Student Platform
Tazria and Metzora deal specifically with the rituals for separating the “impure” from the community, and the many, many details of purifying and readmitting them. From this viewpoint, Tazria and Metzora are disturbing and seem to offer little food for spiritual...
by mussar | Apr 27, 2021 | CCM Practice Lab, Dr. Beulah Trey, May, Newsletter
CCM Practice Lab, by Dr. Beulah Trey In English my title here at CCM is Director of Curriculum and Practice, in Hebrew it is Masgiach Ruchani. Here is what I knew about the role before I started writing this piece. I knew that the position was established alongside...
by mussar | Apr 27, 2021 | May, Newsletter, Notes From The Rabbi
In a few short weeks we will complete our metaphoric journey from Egypt on Pesach to Sinai on Shavuot. Just as we learned that the heart of the Haggadah is located in the injunction to actually experience the Exodus for ourselves through the ritual, so also the...
by mussar | Apr 27, 2021 | May, Message from the Leadership, Newsletter
By Herb Levine on behalf of the Tribute Committee “We are delighted that so many people have come forward to honor Mindy at our upcoming Tribute on May 23rd,” says Rosh Yeshivah, Ira Stone. “Mindy has been the cornerstone of our program. No other Madrichah has taught...
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...