May 10, 2021 | Eshel in the News, Holidays
Sparring Partners: Our Arguments with God and What We Learn From Them! Shiyur for Tikkun Leil Shavuot 5781 Prepared for the Eshel Community מחלוקת לשם השמים By Dr. Saundra Sterling Epstein Email: shulisrose@aol.com Download the source sheet here. BERUCHIM HABAIM: As we continue to celebrate in our small gatherings, this shiyur is meant to be [more]
Mar 4, 2020 | Holidays, Torah
Rabbi Steve Greenberg - Purim is about concealment. More specifically, it is about movement from the covert to the overt. There is a sustained tension between what characters are and what they seem to be that moves the plot forward. It is the careful unraveling of disguises that makes for salvation. The major characters are [more]
Dec 13, 2019 | Parsha Notes, Torah
Parashat Yayishlach - By Rabbi Steve Greenberg - Jacob is returning from Ur to face his brother Esau. He crosses back over the Yabbok river, and there, finding himself alone, encounters a man who wrestles with him until the morning light. “And Jacob was left by himself [Yaakov levado]; and there a man wrestled with [more]
Nov 25, 2019 | Parsha Notes, Torah
Parshat Toldot - By Dr. Saundra Sterling Epstein - Eshel Director of Welcoming Shuls Project - Parents are different. Children are different. Families are different. We may not all like the same things. We may not all have the same professions, the same personalities, the same characteristics, the same aspirations in life, the same … [more]
Nov 25, 2019 | Parsha Notes, Torah
Parashat Toldot - By R. Shai Held - Intro by R. Steve Greenberg: For many of us in the Eshel world, remaining connected to a Torah that seems to erase, banish or incriminate our ordinary human desire for intimacy and companionship is an enormous challenge. In my own life and in the stories that many [more]
