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Eikev
August 3, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: eikev •
August has arrived –blackberries, blueberries and figs are abundant right now; preserving and jam-making is one of August’s tasks for many of us. We want to preserve the abundance of the moment, uncertain of our own supply chain, in light of the Covid pandemic which is still informing our decisions about how and where we […]
Korach
June 23, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: korach •
Dear friends, Monday, Monday – somehow my mind is wandering back to songs of the ‘70’s! Again, mazal tov to Willem Hanevelt, Tyler, Katrina Greenfield and Jay Hanevelt from all of us at Kolot Mayim. What a wonderful simcha we witnessed on Shabbat morning this past week. I heard from several of you about how […]
Shlach
June 15, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: bar mitzvah, shelachim, shlach •
Dear friends, Another wet and rainy Monday morning – our water bills are being subsidized this year! Many of us are enjoying our gardens with a little more attention as we stay home more than in past years. Some of us are first time gardeners (my brother in Calgary), and some of us have expanded […]
Baha’alotecha
June 8, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: Baha’alotecha, Bereavement Chevra, ram dass •
Dear friends, This week (Sunday through Wednesday), I am attending a conference for those of us involved with the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Societies) and Jewish funerals. The conference is held every year by an organization called Kavod V’Nichum. Nineteen years ago I was in a kitchen in Columbia, Maryland with the executive director of […]
Naso and Equality
June 1, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: equality, naso •
Dear friends, The sun is trying. Garden party season is virtually upon us – we live in hope. The blossoms went to my head last week– this week is Parashat Naso!! I don’t comment on world events very often – we have multiple sources of information available to us these days, with whatever built-in biases they […]
Naso
May 25, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: blessings, naso •
This week in Torah we read the book of Naso – which has one of our most significant blessings: Many Jews recite this blessing over the heads of their children on Friday nights before reciting Kiddush. It is a special moment in the family when parents come up to their children and acknowledge the circle […]
Bamidbar
May 19, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: bamidbar, numbers •
Dear friends, This week, in Torah, we enter the Wilderness, the Book of Bamidbar. In B.C., we also begin a new phase of re-opening and re-entering, as we might go to places we have not seen for months now. We enter those new spaces carefully, avoiding risk where we can, and hopefully, we will continue […]
Behar–Bechukotai
May 11, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: Behar–Bechukotai, bonnie henry •
Dear friends, Shavua tov, a good week to all of you. This week we are in yet another double portion: the books of Behar – the shortest parashah in Torah and Bechukotai.
Emor
May 5, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: emor •
Shavua tov, dear friends. We are in the middle of the middle as I said on Friday night – not the middle of the muddle, as COVID may make us feel. We are in the very centre of Vayikra, the Book of Leviticus, and in the central readings of that book. This week we are […]
Re’eh
August 10, 2020 by Rabbi Lynn Greenhough • From the Rabbi's Desk • Tags: adin steinsaltz, cheese, re'eh •
Dear friends, Last Friday night we gathered to celebrate Shabbat at Gyro Park – but our plans were somewhat derailed by the generosity of nature – a mist became a shpritz became a sprinkle… A few hardy souls turned out – 27 I think in total, and we had a lovely opportunity to schmooze for […]