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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jan 11, 2021
- 3 min
Drawing Near When it is Hardest
At this time of social isolation and fragmentation, whom do you need to draw closer to? Vayigash, one of last month’s Torah portions,...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Sep 24, 2020
- 3 min
Who by Virus and Who by Fire?
I’m so grateful that I don’t read the words of the machzor (High Holiday prayerbook) literally. If I believed that there were an...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
The Days of Awe are Here
Not to worry. Rosh Hashana does not begin until the evening of September 18th. There’s still time to prepare. But we have been living...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jul 31, 2020
- 4 min
In Our Time of Exile, We are Not Alone
Tisha B’Av came early this year. We have been mourning and contemplating collective losses since early March, when the pandemic hit.
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- May 17, 2020
- 3 min
The Pandemic as a Teacher
Who do you want to be when the virus has passed? How will you have changed?
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Apr 25, 2020
- 4 min
A mysterious disease strikes
When we have come through this, let us turn our pain, fear and loneliness into a new way of being with others and as citizens of the world.
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jan 18, 2020
- 3 min
The Balance between Righteousness and Self-Righteousness
Ometz lev is a quality of willingness to speak truth to power and also a quality of the heart: strength tempered by love and gentleness.
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Oct 19, 2019
- 3 min
In the Sukkah, as in life, we are both vulnerable and safe
Ten months after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, I moved to Palo Alto. When our first Sukkot arrived, members of the Jewish community...
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