An interfaith story by Rabbi David Zaslow From Reimagining Exodus: A Story of Freedom by Rabbi David Zaslow. Copyright © 2017 by David Zaslow. Used by permission of Paraclete Press On Friday, December 30, 1994, I drove to Canterbury, a beautiful 48-acre Episcopal...
by Rabbi David Zaslow The problem with criticism of Israel is not the criticism, per se. The problem is lack of contextualization, inaccurate comparisons, and exaggerated or misused language. In any authentic democracy, the responsibility of informed citizens is to...
by David Zaslow The light of you bent back,reflected from a far staryears away has reachedmy eyes today seen onlyin the darkness of the night tonight. I swear that what I see is nowbut know that what I seeis light bent backfrom far off long ago. And now my...
by Rabbi David Zaslow When I see the lightthat shines on you,what I see nowis stored in me as memory.Someday (a long time off please God)one of us will say kaddish for the otherretrieving that light within memoryand leaving the realmof the here and now in spaceand...
by Rabbi David Zaslow with help from Devorah Zaslow In the Kaballah, the force of expansion is represented by Hesed, and personified by the angel Michael. In the diagram of the Kabalistic tree of life, Hesed, meaning “kindness and “mercy,” resides in the right side of...
by Rabbi David Zaslow כִּי עֲנַן יְהוָה עַל-הַמִּשְׁכָּן יוֹמָם וְאֵשׁ תִּהְיֶה לַיְלָה בּוֹ לְעֵינֵי כָל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּכָל מַסְעֵיהֶם For the cloud of the YHVH was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house...
The Way Moses and Rev. King Faced Pharaoh by Rabbi David Zaslow Adapted from an essay in Reimagining Exodus: A Freedom Story Listen to any of Rev. Martin Luther King’s speeches and you hear the voice of Moses and echoes of the Exodus. His prophetic sermon, often...
Pharaoh’s National Repentance Movement by Rabbi David Zaslow from Reimagining Exodus: A Freedom Story Exodus 9:27–28: “Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron, and said to them, ‘This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in...
The Seder As a Template by Rabbi David Zaslow Excepted from Reimagining Exodus: A Freedom Story On Friday, December 30, 1994, I drove to Canterbury, a beautiful 48-acre Episcopal retreat center in Oviedo, Florida, to what promised to be a historic gathering between...
Responding to Anti-Semitism By Rabbi David Zaslow Anti-Semitism, like all prejudices, is an equal opportunity yetzer ha-ra, “ evil inclination.” Today it afflicts people on the far left as well as the far right. This has, in fact, been the historical pattern of...
