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Va’eira
January 11, 2021 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: vaeira •
Last week we opened the Book of Shemot, or Exodus; this week we are in the second parashah – Va’eira. God tells Moses that God “appeared” to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob…This is a passage of reassurance to Moses, who, whilst having agreed to challenge Pharaoh for the release of his people Israel, is […]
Shemot
January 3, 2021 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: shemot •
Dear friends, I have just completed formatting the announcements – and so much is going on. We are very blessed to have such an engaged congregation, with members willing to participate in all manner of ways, be it volunteering to interview members as we write our ‘torah’, our story of the beginnings of Kolot Mayim, […]
Vayechi
December 27, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: vayechi •
The last days of December 2020 are within sight, and January 1st 2021 (otherwise known as 17 Tevet, 5781) is upon us. And as we look forward to new beginnings we also will be closing the book of Genesis with Parashah Vayechi – “And (Jacob) lived”… As we saw earlier in Chayei Sarah – the […]
Vayigash
December 22, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: vayigash •
Dear friends, The holiday of Hannukah is over, but its profound message never leaves us. We must stand up for our beliefs. We have had many colonizers over us in Israel – from Babylonians to Assyrians to Greeks to Romans to Ottomans and Brits! And we have always had a remnant population survive. Israel lives […]
Bo
January 18, 2021 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: bo •
In our Torah reading this week, BO, the Israelites finally leave Egypt – and, with the guidance of God and Moses head, presumably, to the Land of covenant. Perhaps my aversion to camping trips is embedded in knowing that what should have been 10 days became an interminable 40 years!