This newsletter is almost a month late. With all of the excitement about the growth and impact of Shefa, there is a hesitancy to broadcast all of our sincere good news when the world is burning and their is deep grief in the hearts of so many. Rabbi Avraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, captures my own internal state quite well: “There are those that trip over life in their wanderings--unable to find a spiritual anchor. They become too exhausted in their spirit to execute the daily functions of everday life. A bog of confusion and polarization sprouts forth from this mass spiritual exhaustion.”

A delicate articulation of thanks

Zot Hanukkah

pushback? not much

a grape, a fig, an etrog, and a wheat stalk