Entries by R' Evan Krame

Bitching Bites

Bitching is easy. Holy bitching is another matter. Easy bitching is what our Torah ancestors did after 39 years in the desert – and who could blame them? Having buried beloved […]

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Call Me By Your Name

Part of a yearlong series about resilience in Jewish spiritual life. Have you ever imagined yourself with a different name? My grandmother wanted to shed her Yiddish name and be […]

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Waiting to Exhale

Part of a yearlong series about resilience in Jewish spiritual life. “Waiting to Exhale.” No, not the 1995 Whitney Houston movie hit. I mean life’s occasional sense of waiting – […]

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Who are you working for?

Part of a yearlong series about resilience in Jewish spiritual life. A famed microbiologist, Stanley Falkow, died this month. Falkow’s work was described as writing the operating manual for how […]

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There is No “I” in Team

Part of a yearlong series about resilience in Jewish spiritual life. Here’s a true confession of a self-described “Resilience Rabbi” spending a year writing about resilience: sometimes I don’t feel […]

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Goats off a cliff

Goats are all the rage. Check out the many goat’s milk products on the shelves at Whole foods. Have you tried baby goat yoga? In Torah this week, goats also figure […]

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Time Out From Nomophobia

Part of a yearlong series on resilience in Jewish spiritual life. Have you experienced a fear of being with out your hand held device? For many the modern influence most […]

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