Sun. Dec. 2, 2012

Last night I read the d'var Torah that Velveteen Rabbi offered that morning at her shul on this week's parsha, "Vayishlach."

She talks about Jacob wrestling with the angel and says:Having received a new name, Jacob bestows a new name: he names that place, that bend in the river, Peni'el, literally "the face of God," saying, "For ( Read more... )

People keep saying "Happy New Year," which continues to throw me.  It threw me when people said it at church on Sunday, when the flight crew said it today, and when coworkers said it today -- though today actually makes sense because I haven't seen these people since 2008 ( Read more... )

I am not feeling up to going clubbing -- especially since that would likely involve heading down to the Castro or out to Berkeley -- and I'm not sure what else one does on one's own in SF at 7pm on a Friday night after one has had dinner and wandered around to the limits of one's confidence in one's ability to make one's way home without poring ( Read more... )

Email from Molly to the listserv today (7:17am):In spite of the snow, Beloved, our choirs will gamely forge ahead with cantata and worship as planned ( Read more... )

Last night I was looking up what I used as an Advent joy sadhana verse in years past and found:

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before our God to prepare the ways, to give knowledge of salvation to God's people by the forgiveness of sins. By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break ( Read more... )

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