Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Post-Seder Thoughts: Why Not Hate the Egyptians?
"Pharaoh's Army Engulfed by the Red Sea" by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1900 On a superficial level, the story of Passover is one of the...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Feb 20
- 4 min
A New Look at Slavery in the Torah
(Free public domain image) I think a lot about slavery these days. I read and write and teach about the history of slavery in America,...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jan 20
- 5 min
Torah from a Mussar Perspective: Parashat Va'era
While studying the Torah portion and commentaries this week, one piece of Torah spoke directly to my heart. At the beginning of Parashat...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jan 2
- 3 min
Approaching Yourself, God and Others
Image from trh_reconciliation_artwork1-0851c68baf316287e325062573333a3932ab6856-s1200.jpg Is there tension or estrangement in a...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Sep 24, 2022
- 3 min
It's in Your Heart
There is so much dis-ease in the air. People feeling discouraged and alienated, if not downright despairing. The state of the nation and...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
Mourning the Loss of Temples, Ancient and Contemporary
(image from https://www.ritmeyer.com/2020/07/31/https-www-youtube-com-watchvy5vuox09ryw/) I have been listening to a lot of lament in...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jun 21, 2022
- 4 min
The Torah and Poor People
The Rev. William Barber (left) and the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, lead a demonstration outside the U.S....
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Apr 29, 2022
- 3 min
You Can Open Your Own Curtain
(Photo/peakpx.com) A few weeks back, the Torah brought us the disturbing story of the deaths of Aaron’s sons Nadav and Avihu, an apparent...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
The Four Children and Racial Justice
The Maggid section of the Haggadah imagines four distinct children, each with their own response to the Passover story. Many of us have...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Mar 14, 2022
- 4 min
The Tiny Aleph Calls us to Recognize our Privilege
(Image from https://www.boundless.org/faith/how-to-empty-your-cup-and-find-humility/) This week’s parashah, Vayikra, contains a famously...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jan 24, 2022
- 4 min
Encountering the Sacred in the Eyes of Another
A 1907 postcard depicts the Israelites gathered in awe at the foot of Mount Sinai for the revelation of the Ten Commandments, from...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Dec 5, 2021
- 3 min
A Hanukah Story for These Times
(Photo/Flickr-wwworks CC BY 2.0) According to one version of the Hanukkah story, Hanukkah celebrates the remarkable victory of a small...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Oct 20, 2021
- 4 min
A radiant world? Or a planet on fire?
At the start of parashat Lech Lecha, the third parasha in the book of Genesis, God commands Abram and Sarai — not yet renamed Abraham and...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
Seeing the World as New
Photo by Ardi Evans on Unsplash When my daughter was a baby many years ago, I remember being captivated by the ritual of bringing “first...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Aug 10, 2021
- 3 min
Perhaps There is Hope
Photo by raquel raclette on Unsplash On the first day of Elul, I heard a beautiful teaching from Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie on a webinar...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jul 11, 2021
- 3 min
Our Journey through COVID
What a journey it has been through this unimaginable year and a half. The loss of so many loved ones, the collapse of our treasured...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- May 23, 2021
- 3 min
The Torah on Privilege
As American society wrestles with its history of criminal injustice, a classic piece of rabbinic commentary on this week’s portion...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
Emerging from COVID as the Parting of the Sea
During the first week of the Covid shutdown last year, I heard someone say that he had begun to look in the mirror each morning and say...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Turning toward Trust
One of my favorite passages in the Torah appears at the very end of the Book of Exodus. After an extended set of descriptions of the...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Feb 18, 2021
- 3 min
How to Have Fewer Enemies
Imagine a person whose politics are different from your own - a real, decent person. Would you give them a lift if their car died?
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