Rabbi David ZaslowThe Interplay of Light and Dark
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
by Rabbi David ZaslowDecember, 2003 What’s the darkest night of the year? You might guess the winter solstice on December 21st! But that’s the shortest night of the…
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
by Rabbi David ZaslowDecember, 2003 What’s the darkest night of the year? You might guess the winter solstice on December 21st! But that’s the shortest night of the…
Friday, November 28, 2003
by Rabbi David ZaslowNovember, 2003 I was eight years old in 1955 when Hurricane Diane struck the East Coast. I lived in in a little beach community called…
Friday, October 31, 2003
by Rabbi David Zaslow October, 2003 I remember being at the film “Schindler’s List” with an Israeli friend who pointed out that everytime Hebrew was spoken a different…
Monday, September 1, 2003
by Rabbi David ZaslowSeptember, 2003 As I think about my father’s life, the distance between 1930 and 1963 seems vast. So many stories took place within those years:…
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
by Rabbi David ZaslowApril, 2003 As we know, there are many levels of freedom. One person is free on the outside and bound on the inside. Another is…
Tuesday, December 31, 2002
by Rabbi David ZaslowDecember, 2002 Okay, I admit it. I’m prejudiced! I’m a New Yorker and everything New York is Jewish and everything out of New York is…
Sunday, March 31, 2002
by Rabbi David ZaslowSpring, 2002 In the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) there are three kinds of mitzvot (commandments from God). The first are called mishpatim or…
Friday, December 31, 1999
by Rabbi David ZaslowDecember, 1999 In Isaiah 45:7 the prophet utters the words he hears from Hashem, “I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and…
Friday, January 31, 1997
by Rabbi David Zaslow How many of us are saddened that in our childhoods we learned the words to our Jewish prayers, but we rarely knew what we…