A Spiritual Time Out
This week we have a double portion, Tazria and Metzora. They both deal with the reasons for creating boundaries of time and space, and fixes due to being tamae, ritually […]
Entries by R' Evan Krame
Eat Your Way to Holiness
Tragedies often leave us bewildered and disaffected. But Torah offers profound lessons in the wake of seemingly inexplicable tragedy. In parashat Shemini, the text details eight days of dedication ceremonies […]
All in: body, heart and soul
Among the reasons that Jewish yoga and chant cultivate loyal followings is their focus on the body as a spiritual portal. After centuries of Jewish focus on matters of the […]
Great Seders, Less Stress
Ideas to Make Your Passover Seder Great By Johanna Potts Reduce the Passover Seder stress with these ideas on how to make your Seder great. In fact the Seder within […]
The Freedom of Now
by Rabbi David Evan Markus as posted in My Jewish Learning on March 19. When does time begin? What does time measure? What came before the beginning? Such mind-bending questions evoke […]
Leadership Change: Front and Center
by Rabbi Evan Krame Moses hands off spiritual leadership to his brother Aaron and Aaron’s sons in Parashat Tzav (Leviticus Chapter 8 : 2 – 5) in a very public ceremony, He […]
Hello, is that God Calling? (Vayikra)
Rabbi David Evan Markus The opening of Torah’s middle book, Vayikra (Leviticus), asks a hidden question that is perhaps the most important question in Jewish spiritual life. Torah’s story of liberation and wandering […]
Sacred Time
We speak of sacred time and sacred space as if they exist on their own. But they don’t – their sacred nature is an attribute that we impose or imbue […]
The State of Judaism
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, founder of CLAL and interpreter of Judaism as a Modern Orthodox Rabbi, recently gave a “State of Judaism” talk in San Francisco. After assessing the problems, including […]
Building and Nature
by Rabbis Evan J. Krame & David Evan Markus Architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously said, “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” Construction trades tend more to concern gutters […]
Evan J. Krame was ordained as a rabbi by the