IKAR Podcasts

Parsha study with Rabbi David Kasher from 3/3/2022

As we close out the Book of Exodus, a 13th century Spanish preacher helps us, finally, make sense of all the details.

A sermon on our relationship to technology (in which Rabbi Kasher gets his dates confused and accidentally adds a year to the pandemic!)

We pray for the safety of all the people of Ukraine as they face the terror of war and for the wisdom of our own leaders to guide our country to a response rooted in justice.

Who knows how to take the prophet's heavenly vision and bring it down to the ground? The Shadow knows!

What if the redemption our tradition intended was not that of some cataclysmic historical shift, but was about brief and fleeting moments of goodness and light that shine within the chaos and darkness that invariably surrounds us. Real moments with real meaning, and that neither could nor should last forever.

Moses has just come back down from speaking with God. And he's glowing.

Wandering through the library of Jewish legal texts, the careful observer may take notice of a curious trend. For reasons unclear, many of the classic books of Jewish law take their titles from - of all things - the various pieces of the High Priest's clothing.