In the afternoon on March 30th, just before the start of National Poetry Month, I was waiting nervously to be invited to share a poem I’d written about being the new rabbi here at CBT. For me, offering divrei torah, words of Torah, or iyyunei tefilah, insights about the prayers, from the bima at CBT is a cake-walk compared to offering a poem in a Zoom room of poets, even though I’ve spent countless hours…
Rabbi's Message
For nearly four decades, the Torah that is read during the month of Kislev—known to Hebrew Bible scholars as Sippurei Yosef, the Stories of Joseph or the Joseph Narrative—has been particularly meaningful to me. It was one of the first biblical texts I studied in Hebrew with the poet and professor David Rabeeya z”l at Bryn Mawr College and, more than 20 years later, I revisited these stories with my younger daughter who celebrated her…