STORM CANCELATIONS
Hello Everyone - As you might have heard, there is some snow happening. So, we're canceling services tonight and tomorrow morning, and Professor Mark Ungar's talk on Human Rights in Iran will be...
View ArticleClearing the Weeds so Flowers can Bloom: Some thoughts on Teruma, Shabbat and...
After Adam and Eve get evicted from the Garden of Eden, the Holy One places fierce and menacing guards, known as keruvim, who are charged with preventing the first couple from making their way back...
View ArticleA Sabbath Manifesto
How to Slow Down and Breathe on Shabbat Avoid TechnologyConnect with loved ones.Nurture your health.Get outside.Avoid commerce.Light candles.Drink wine.Eat bread.Find silence.Give Back. If you want to...
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Pesach 5773/2013
Pesach begins this year on the evening of Monday, March 25 and goes through the evening of April 2. Here's all the information about how we're celebrating here in Beacon. PreperationIf you are making...
View ArticleReflections on Psalm 16 - Psalm One of the Tikkun HaClali
We fear pain. We fear events that twist our hopes, catastrophes that strain our bodies, indignities that weary our spirit. When we suffer, our pain becomes all we can see, so that the best we can do is...
View ArticleLooking for a Leader for High Holiday Family Services in Beacon, NY
Beacon (NY) Hebrew Alliance is looking to re-imagine and reinvigorate our Youth and Family Service for the High Holidays. We are a small and creative community led by Rabbi Brent Spodek, and we are...
View ArticleLooking for Creative Hebrew School Teacher in Beacon, NY
Beacon (NY) Hebrew Alliance is looking for an educator to be part of our Hebrew school team.We are a small and creative community and we are looking for someone who can “think big picture” about what...
View ArticleReflections on Psalm 32 - Psalm Two of the Tikkun HaClali
Discernment is the heart of wisdom.Absolutism is a snare. As Kenny Rogers put it, “you have to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away and know when to run.” Only a fool...
View ArticleRebbe Nachman's Tikkun HaClali: An Introduction
For most of the past year, I’ve begun our newsletter with some thoughts on the weekly parsha, or Torah reading. For the next ten weeks, I am going to try something a little different - I hope it will...
View ArticleOrder and Chaos: Reflections on Psalm 42 - the third Psalm of the Tikkun HaClali
When I get anxious, I like to clear my desk. I put papers in their place, stack books neatly. When I get very anxious, I like to control what I can. Chaos makes us anxious, so we prefer to limit its...
View ArticleAbsence and Desire: Reflections on Psalm 42 the fourth Psalm of the Tikkun...
Every screaming child wants something. A bottle, a toy, a parent. Every adult wants something too, something out of reach. Who is happy in the Jewish tradition? One who is happy with her lot. But few...
View ArticleOnly Today: Reflections on Psalm 59, the fifth Psalm of the Tikkun HaClali
Wellness and illness are not fixed states; they are snapshots of a moment, points in time. Nobody can truly say, “I am well”; we can only accurately say “I am well now.”Spiritually traditional Jews...
View ArticleMiracle Factories: Reflections on Psalm 77, the sixth Psalm of the Tikkun...
Hospitals can be miracle factories.They can be places where doctors and nurses access the Energy of Creation and help some beloved creations live somewhat longer.We enter the hospital knowing that...
View Article126 Units of Love
This has been an exceptional week around here, so we’re going to take a little break from our exploration of the Psalms of the Tikkun HaClali. Keep an eye out for Psalm 90 next week.Tonight marks the...
View ArticleGratitude in Pain: Reflections on Psalm 90, the seventh Psalm of the Tikkun...
Every week at my family’s Shabbat dinner table, we all share something we are each thankful for.Even in the hardest weeks, when there is plenty of pain to be acknowledged, there is always a moment of...
View ArticleSing, Sing, Sing: Thoughts on Psalm 105
We all have habits of mind, well-worn neural pathways down which our minds go racing when we are anxious, when we lie down to sleep or simply when we are idle.Rebbe Nachman calls these habits לסטים...
View ArticleEvery Place I walk, I walk to Jerusalem: Thoughts on Psalm 137
Some of us have traveled to Jerusalem, the beautiful white stone city and some have not. But we have all been to Jerusalem. The name of Jerusalem - Yerushalayim in Hebrew - means city of wholeness or...
View ArticleEvery Breath Praises Yah: Thoughts on Psalm 150
The command to praise God can be paralyzing.Regardless of who or what we think God is, we don't know how to offer praise. We praise those we patronize, like children or subordinates and we praise those...
View ArticleVolunteer Opportunity: Beacon Summer Lunch Program
We are part of a fabulous effort, together with our friends at First Presbyterian and other Beacon houses of worship, to make sure that students who rely on free and reduced lunches have access to them...
View ArticlePrint Calendar for 2013-2014
Dear Friends:The Beacon Hebrew Alliance wall calendar is returning in the fall of 2013 - now in full-color! This calendar will strengthen our community by helping everyone know what is happening when...
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