by Rabbi Alpern | Jan 17, 2013 | Arias
A Devar Jonah Conversation Ari.A Alpern (This version is set up to start a conversation) A salam Ah laykum. Shalom A lay chem, Peace be Upon You. And upon you Peace. Welcome to our devotional conversation on the Quran. We will read and recite together, from “The...
by Rabbi Alpern | Aug 30, 2012 | Arias
Beyond Sunday School: A Call to the Children of Israel. If you, like many, stopped your spiritual education at age 13 or 12, you may see the world like an adolescent. Similar to The High Priest Aaron, of blessed memory, modern rabbis are not able to prevent the dance...
by Rabbi Alpern | Aug 30, 2012 | Arias
My “I Have a Dream Speech” of Shabbat Shalom ( In memory of Rabbi Edwin H. Friedman ) Rabbi Friedman of blessed memory is my main rabbinic mentor. In his final book, A Failure of Nerve, the good rabbi challenges each of us to have our own “I have a dream speech.”...
by Rabbi Alpern | Aug 30, 2012 | Arias
A: Mastering the Final Name. Be a Baal Shem Tov A Review Say A, The Final Name, or Ah, as in say Ah Aleph God In A Beginning add lamed say Ale, or A lah Plural of majesty Al o heam, not L o him in A Beginning creating continuously, in your goodness Ma ah say B...
by Rabbi Alpern | Aug 30, 2012 | Arias
On Reading Wallace Stevens with Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary Poetic allusion must be “recognizable not only to a coterie of poets and gentlemen scholars, but to a whole culture as well.” John Hollander My diction is ary Sitting pretty upon...
by Rabbi Alpern | Aug 30, 2012 | Arias
Gnomologia of Elijah For Theo, who prefers poetry You are the task, (as Rebbe K teaches), and no disciple, far or wide; and the Teacher, and the Savior of your own life. So what is Decisive? Sinai? Calgary? Only The A Ascent. Arête, Says this Prophet of...