My grandmother died on August 1. Going through the process has made me consider the Kaddish more than I have in the past. The Kaddish is a traditional Jewish prayer, part of the liturgy. It is traditional recited at funerals and has become associated as a prayer for the dead, even though it makes no [...]
Remembering My Grandmother
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Categories: Faith, Family, Love, Messiah, Traditions
Tags: Family·grandmother·Kaddish·kvell·liturgy·Love·mensch·Prayer·traditional Judaism
Fatherhood
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Categories: Adoption, Bible, Faith, Family, Holiness, Love, Scripture
With Father’s Day having just past, I found this excellent post on the subject, which flowed very nicely with my Rabbi’s message this week, which was about fathers, and more specifically the Scriptural description of the attributes of our Heavenly Father and how we should try and exhibit these attributes ourselves, not only with our [...]
Tags: Aquinas·Aristotle·Bible·father·Heavenly Father·Love·Scripture
He That Takes Away Your Cloak Forbid Not To Take Your Coat Also
April 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Categories: Faith
Found this interesting story over at ThinkChristian. While the story does not indicate the person’s faith, I think it nevertheless does show an outworking of the teaching of Luke 6:27-31.
I also found the person, Julio Diaz telling of the story here.
Found it very interesting to hear these concepts truly being lived out in such a [...]











