Gmar chatimah tovah. It is so good to see each and every one of you on this holy vision-quest day of Yom Kippur. Vision is this year's spiritual theme. On Rosh Hashanah we explored Judaism's core truth that what's invisible often is more real than what's visible, that how we see the world – optical… Continue reading The Vision Before You
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Leave God Out Of Your Election Commentary
Roy Moore's first words after losing his U.S. Senate election in Alabama invoked Psalm 40 for God's control of the election. At the same time, my liberal friends and colleagues – who for years lamented "Bible beating" in the public square – jubilantly called Doug Jones' election victory a "Chanukkah miracle" that "proves a loving God." As… Continue reading Leave God Out Of Your Election Commentary
The Day After
The glass shattered. We can't stay: we've already been ejected from our land, the place that made us, our ancestral home. We don't know where we're going or how we'll get there. Today physically may look much the same as yesterday, but nothing is the same. We already left. We don't know where we're going… Continue reading The Day After
David Evan Markus 