Aneinu! Answer us!
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 21, 2023
The Viduy, the confessional prayers, so central to the Yom Kippur prayer service, invites us to acknowledge and explore our limits — but then we rise up.
Ten measures of beauty, of fragility, of hope
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 14, 2023
It’s been a special prelude to Rosh Hashanah for me. A first since I had moved from Israel 16 years ago. There I was again, steeped in the approach to Rosh Hashanah in...
Off the shelf
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 31, 2023
Finally, my years long search is over. It was a little random book I had never forgotten from my childhood that I was looking for.
The bridge was open
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 24, 2023
What started out as a lovely walk throughout the Moses Montefoire Windmill gardens on a perfect breezy and jasmine scented Jerusalem night, turned into an evening of...
Elul
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 17, 2023
Elul. This Jewish month inaugurates a journey of soul-searching, a 40-day journey that culminates in the most sacred day of the year, Yom Kippur.
Kaleidoscopes
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 10, 2023
D. Alex Jacobs would regale me with stories of sitting at my grandparent’s dinner table and my Grandpa Max sitting with his large, hard cover dictionary, playing word...
‘For we are brothers’
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 03, 2023
As these tense times in Israel unfold, many different echoes of history are on my mind.
Console, console, My people
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 27, 2023
Fear and worry were my reactions to the news of the current, more mitigated form of the Israeli judicial reform bill passing.
Perhaps we should all take a step back
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 20, 2023
Not only are we sadly living through historic times — since Israel’s modern day inception I don’t think she has seen or been cut by such sustained fragmentation as...
A path out of the straits
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 13, 2023
Currently, according to the Jewish calendar, we in the midst of the three-week stretch,”bein ha-metzarim, between the straits,” or, colloquially, “The Three...
