by Rabbi Nancy Tunick | Sep 1, 2016 | Rabbi Messages
President James Garfield was quoted as saying “Man cannot live by bread alone, he must have peanut butter.” That is not the original conclusion of the famous biblical quote “Man does not live by bread alone, but rather by, whatever comes forth from the mouth of the...
by Rabbi Nancy Tunick | Aug 15, 2016 | Rabbi Messages
We are a people of words. We focus on Torah which is a book of divinely inspired words. We relate stories and accounts of our ancestors and pass those stories down from generation to generation in words. We as a people are famous for our humor. There are endless...
by Rabbi Nancy Tunick | Jul 18, 2016 | Rabbi Messages
Chukat: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1 It feels like every day we turn on the news and have to ask ourselves why. Why is there so much violence, hatred, division, intolerance and tragedy in this country and around the world? We barely had time to recover from Orlando, and...
by Rabbi Nancy Tunick | Jun 14, 2016 | Rabbi Messages
Our lives are a journey. In Judaism, the Torah tells of our journey with Moses from Egypt to the Promised Land, and that journey clearly reflects our own. We face challenges and celebrations, tests of faith and epiphanies, great joy and grief just as our ancestors...
by Rabbi Nancy Tunick | Jun 14, 2016 | Rabbi Messages
This week’s Parshah is Bamidbar which is the Torah portion that we traditionally read on the Shabbat prior to Shavuot. Bamidbar means in the desert where Moses is taking a census, and the image of endless sand brings to mind the stillness and emptiness of that...
by Rabbi Nancy Tunick | May 17, 2016 | Rabbi Messages
Fred Rogers, famous for Mr. Roger’s neighborhood, once said “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers.’ You will always find people who are helping.” When two bombs exploded near the finish line at the...
