Beyond Sunday School
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...My Dream
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.”...Be a Baal Shem Tov
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...Supreme Fiction
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...Gnomologia
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...
About Rabbi Alpern
Rabbi Alpern has been in the Albany area for over 30 years and a Rabbi for 40 years. He is the founder of Temple Shabbat Shalom. Rabbi Alpern focuses on home worship, spiritual guidance, and specializes in inter-faith ceremonies.
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