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WRITINGS

Writings from the soul, to stir the soul.
A collection of reflections that will uplift, enlighten and spark the wisdom within
Rosh Hashana: The Beginning of Beginnings
This, and every High Holiday season, we wish each other a “Happy New Year,” a “Sweet New Year.” We want and desire for the year ahead to...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Sep 20
Summer Sanity: Catching the Moments That Matter
It’s early Friday morning, and I’m standing in my kitchen preparing for Shabbat. A rogue fly zips furiously through the room while silver...
Alice Chera
Jul 29
The Blessing in the Three Weeks
The festivities take pause. The music, silenced. We mourn. Our joy diminished, inward we retreat. To search, to self-reflect. To...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Jul 13
Mitzvah, Avera & Teshuva
In the beginning, G-d created a most magnificent world, a physical paradise brimming with an unimaginable spiritual intimacy with Him....
Rachel Ashkenazi
Jun 9
Emet: The Root of Us
An utterance, an entire world. A syllable, an infinite vastness. Torah language is robust and complex, and endlessly layered. A word is...
Rachel Ashkenazi
May 5
The Freedom of Constraints
The bird glides gracefully through his space without boundaries, without borders the world his to see and to explore. Right or left, up...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Apr 1
Queen Esther - Lessons on Leadership from the 5th Century BCE
In a recent industry dinner for technology executives in finance, I realized midway that I was one of only two women among about fifty...
Sarita Bakst Salama
Mar 11
Parashat Zachor - Who We Are and Who We Are Not
This upcoming Shabbat, the Shabbat prior to Purim, we will be reading Parashat Zachor (Devarim 25:17-19). Hashem commands us to remember...
Robin Shaoul
Mar 4
Faith
To be demanded of us that which we can not see or feel. Taste or smell. It evades our senses, our fingertips unable to grasp. A thought...
Rachel Ashkenazi
Feb 6
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