Mitzvah Guidance

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The term Kaddish, derives from the same root as kedushah, holiness. Though the Kaddish never mentions death or loss, the most well-known is the Mourner’s Kaddish, which has come to be associated with memorializing the death of someone close to you.

Have you ever felt almost unrecognizable to yourself? Like a cartoon character whose several sheets of transparencies had gotten out of alignment? Just like in the many stories of dysfunctional families in the Torah, in the torah of your life have you also wandered in a wilderness state of consciousness?  

Judaism most often approaches the soul's many transformations on the "journey called life" by including rituals of chessed. These involve expressions of overflowing loving kindness via water, washing, immersion.

Teaching Tashlich through a New Games and Environmental Lens
by Rabbi Dr. Goldie Milgram; Photo Credit: "Magenetic Waves" (c) 2016 Barry Bub
originally published in 

The Omer comprises 49 days, paralleling the wandering of the Israelites in the wilderness, which in Torah comes the day after Passover begins, and ends with receiving Torah on Shavuot.

Originally, the omer was the measure of wheat brought as a donation of harvest gratitude to feed the Temple workers in ancient Israel. As our need for renewal of spirit builds in these troubling times, the Jewish spiritual renaissance continues unabated.

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