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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
Jun 16, 20234 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 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
Jun 21, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 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
Dec 5, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 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
May 23, 20213 min read
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, 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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