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Romemu: Jewish Life, Elevated

Romemu: Jewish Life, Elevated

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Romemu is a welcoming, experiential, irreverently pious, intergenerational Jewish community that elevates and transforms individuals and communities into more compassionate human beings. Committed to powerful prayer and transformative spiritual practices, Romemu attempts to engage the heart, mind and body in everything we do, helping us to foster greater levels of compassion. We believe that Judaism offers spiritual seekers and skeptics alike a path that celebrates our wholeness and provides ...
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There was a protest for Gaza at the Brooklyn Museum over the weekend. Many people were there because they care about Palestinians. Many were Jews. But what we've seen is that a small few will come imbued with a much older hatred. How do we teach Jewish kids to come into adulthood, knowing that the world is rarely indifferent to us? What does it tak…
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Self-promotion, being first, having a 'brand' or a platform, are all ubiquitous in today's world. 'If I am not for myself', the wise words of the great Hillel have become a modern-day mantra. And, though sharing your voice and being heard are vital, learning to live with others through the trait of humility may be the most powerful antidote to the …
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In our parsha, Va'etchanan, Moses warns the Israelites to obey and follow Torah lest they be exiled from the land, dispersed throughout the world. He then proceeds to predict that his warnings will go unheeded and indeed, the Israelites will eventually find themselves in galut, or exile, dislocated and distanced from home. But, says Moses, if you s…
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Rabbi Cohler-Esses explores the question of faith and whether it is possible to have faith without believing in God. What would allow us to move forward in life with faith that some greater hand is at work, some greater purpose, faith that might relieve help us face a difficult world?Autor: Romemu: Jewish Life, Elevated
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Matot-Masei is a double parsha which brings us to the completion of the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar). In her sermon, Rabbi Cohler-Esses explores reckoning with difficult passages in the Torah, with texts that are violent or patriarchal. Focusing on the laws of women and vows she suggests a methodology for approaching problematic texts by highlighting…
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Five sisters in the Torah portion of Pinchas, known as the Daughters of Zelofchad, stand up to the leadership of the Israelite community. Their father died in the wilderness and they don't have brothers, meaning they don't have inheritance rights. These sisters stand before the entire community and ask to inherit their family's land. God responds a…
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Rabbi Cohler-Esses' sermon addressed the Kabbalistic notion of small mind and large mind -- "mochin de-katnut and mochin de-gadlut" -- and shows how Bilaam, the Ancient Near Eastern prophet, is given lessons by his donkey, by God, and by the wilderness about what it means to make the shift from a narrow to a more expansive consciousness.…
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The Children of Israel turn from grief at the punishment of having to wander the desert for forty years in the parsha/portion of Shelach Lecha to grievance in the parsha of Korach. Korach and his cohort challenge Moshe's power by saying - rav lecha - you have taken too much. In her sermon, Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses explores the role of grief in our…
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Two Shabbatot before Passover is known as "the Shabbat of the month," when we once again read the commitment made to the people of Israel. Once a people with no ownership of their own time, the Israelites, now free, finally have a say over how their time is used - they are renewed. While every Shabbat involves the holiness of renewal, the special S…
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"If all we do is remember, we become slaves to memory, and if all we do is forget, we erase the legacy of the past and make covenants simply a matter of nostalgia." As a community and a society, we have been imprinted with memories of forced separation, brutality, and loneliness, reflected both in current global events as well as our retellings of …
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