Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? The State of Israel Passes before God
On Rosh Hashanah, it is written and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed: How many will die and how many will be born? Who will live and who will...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Spiritual Director, Peace and Justice Educator, Teacher of Mussar, and Author
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Sep 4
- 1 min
Jewish Wisdom on Reparations and Teshuvah
(Image from KQED) I'm proud to say that I recently published a piece on Jewish wisdom on reparations, with reference to the work of the...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Sep 3
- 4 min
On the Power of Blessings and Curses
(Getty Images/StockPhoto) It is the season of blessings and curses. Three weeks ago, we read the majestic words, “See, this day, I set...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jul 14
- 4 min
Is this Torah? Is this Judaism?
("Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianites" by Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, 1650, courtesy of jweekly.com) There are many beautiful...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jun 16
- 4 min
We Are Not Grasshoppers!
I have long been fascinated by a verse in our parasha, one of the most psychologically penetrating verses in the Torah. When the spies...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jun 3
- 4 min
Who Stood at Sinai?
The illustration that inspired this column is by artist Davi Cheng (Copyright Be'Chol Lashon) I love studying midrashim about what...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Apr 9
- 4 min
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
- 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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