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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
Oct 164 min read
Why I Couldn't Pray on Yom Kippur
TOPSHOT – A Palestinian girl looks for salvageable items amid the destruction on the southern outskirts of Khan Yunis in the war-battered...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jul 74 min read
The Land Belongs to God
I can only dream of what would happen if both peoples said to one another, "You know, the land doesn't really belong to either of us."
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Apr 193 min read
Every Year We Must See Ourselves as if We Were There
As Jews, we must remember that we were slaves in Egypt. As Americans, we a part of the chain of history that includes the horrors of slavery
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Mar 114 min read
On the Art and Practice of Generosity
A perfect opportunity to think about the virtue and practice of generosity, even in difficult times.
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Sep 20, 20234 min read
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
Sep 4, 20231 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20204 min read
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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