It’s Sukkot, the time to give thanks for the fall harvest, when Jews around the world put up temporary structures at home and at their synagogues to remind them of the fragile dwelling places of our ancestors during their 40-year journey through the desert to the Promised Land. These sukkot (called booths or huts) that …
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The Path of a New Year
Rosh HaShanah, the “Head of the Year,” can literally be translated from its root Sh-N-H as the “Head of the Repeat” or the “Head of the Change.” For me, this year I completely am embracing the translation of CHANGE. One of the most important things that we as Jews do during the High Holy Days …
A Day Off
Here we are again – Labor Day! Ah, I can smell the glorious scents wafting from people’s backyard barbecues. I hear the children playing outside, getting in those last moments of fun before their school year begins. I see everyone spending time relaxing with family and friends, happy to have a day off to relax. …
Is Observing Enough?
Our Sisterhood Book Club just met this past week to discuss a book I admit I would not have picked up in the book store. For full disclosure, I read (or more specifically, I listen to audiobooks) nowadays as a way of escaping the world, to be entertained in stories far away from my life …
SUMMERTIME
Ah – summertime. That great time when we slow things down and be “lazy.” Ugh, how that always used to bother me. As a “type A” personality, especially when I was younger (although I know many of you may wonder how it’s possible to be MORE type A than I may seem now,) the summer …
The Donkey’s Voice
Thank you everyone for checking us out. Today’s first post is a heavier one, but it was the best way for me to get this information out that was requested by TES Board members this week. For non-Board members, you should know that we try to open all of our meetings with a D’var, a …
Welcome To YEDI’A
Hi everyone and welcome to our new Sisterhood site, our YEDI’A blog, where we hope to build a space to provide more in-depth understanding of all things Sisterhood. There will be posts about all kinds of things, from information about some of our Tikkun Olam charity projects, to what our next book will be for …
Yedi'a 