Rabbi Amy Eilberg
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
Spiritual Director, Peace and Justice Educator, Teacher of Mussar, and Author
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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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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
Unity or Beloved Community?
Will President Biden's call for unity lead to a betrayal of his commitment to racial and economic justice?
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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
- Nov 11, 2020
- 4 min
For the good of all our children: Torah for after the election
As I write, I do not yet know who has won the presidential election. You might not know either. In this period of suspense and...
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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
- Jun 12, 2020
- 3 min
Sound the Trumpets of Justice for All
I can only hope that the agony of these weeks will serve as a sound of the trumpets, awakening our nation to the institutional racism.
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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
- Mar 9, 2020
- 3 min
Remembering all the commands to remember
Let us not let the hate-mongers rob us of what we most cherish. Let us not fail to remember & celebrate that which is most precious to us.
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
- Feb 21, 2020
- 4 min
What Kind of Country Does This?
Of all the people I met during my trip last month to the U.S.-Mexico border, one person’s face haunts me. Maria (not her real name) sat...
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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
- Dec 15, 2019
- 3 min
Can Two Readings of a Text Both Be Right?
Which of two well-known readings of this text is correct?
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