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Messages from June 2025

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Korach

Hold On to Your Staff: Hold On to Your Dreams Life happens; we get busy, tired, distracted—and many times discouraged. Dreams that we once felt were in our reach slowly fade until, sometimes, we forget we ever had it at all. But in Jewish consciousness there’s a surprising lesson this week about holding on to […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Shelach (Numbers 13-15)

Israel at War—And the Inner War We Must Win First וַנְּהִ֤י בְעֵינֵ֙ינוּ֙ כַּֽחֲגָבִ֔ים וְכֵ֥ן הָיִ֖ינוּ בְּעֵינֵיהֶֽם and we were like grasshoppers in our eyes, and so we appeared in their eyes. (Num. 13:33) Sometimes the hardest thing isn’t believing in G-d—it’s believing in ourselves. That’s exactly what went wrong in one of the darkest moments of […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Behaloscha (Numbers 8-12)

Because You Matter: What Leviim Teach Us About Community In the 1920s, an electric company called Hawthorne Works in Illinois ran a series of experiments to see how they could help their workers be more productive. First, they tried changing the lighting in the factory—and productivity went up. But after the experiment ended, the improvements […]

Rabbi O’s Weekly Parsha: Naso (Numbers 4:21–7:89)

You’re Not a Failure — You’re in the Middle of Becoming You In this week’s parsha, the Jewish people complete the Mishkan — a sacred, beautiful space they carried with them through the desert to connect with G-d. But here’s something surprising: for seven days, Moses built the Mishkan each morning — and then took […]