This week I had the chance to reconnect with students from The Davis Academy class of 2011 as they’re getting ready to graduate high school. Time is a funny thing. It seems like only yesterday that they were Davis students. At the same time, it feels like ages ago, a different world. It’s always striking […]
A prayer for graduation
Thank you. Thank you for this day and the countless days leading up to it. And thank you, in advance, for not making me say goodbye, but rather see you later. Thank you for all the things we’ve taught one another, most of which are so deeply embedded in our souls that we don’t even […]
The brain is wider than the sky.
I had a chance to share this beautiful poem with a group of 5th graders today in our outdoor nature sanctuary. What a magnificent piece of writing. Enjoy!
All I have to offer
A few years ago my colleagues and I wrote an opening prayer for t’fila at The Davis Academy middle school. It starts with the line, “All I have to offer in prayer is myself.” We recite it every time our Middle School community gathers for t’fila, but what does it mean. On the one hand […]
Making room for Shabbat
Behold our dining room table: Tonight we pushed back some of the stuff of daily life to make room for Shabbat. Hence our dining room table is 1/2 Shabbat and 1/2 the stuff of daily life. Two kids, two jobs, Amazon prime, birthday party supplies, unpacking from recent Israel trip: the […]
Do you have a Torah to teach?
Between undergrad and rabbinical school I spent two years working at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. I thought it wise to spend some time working in the Jewish community after college and before embarking on the path to officially becoming a rabbi. Every aspect of those two years was a blessing. One […]