Shalom friends,
Yashar kok’hkem to Sandra, Wilson, and all who participated in last Shabbat’s services! We begin a new book of Torah together this Shabbat, Shabbat D’varim, accompanied by our third and last Haftarah of rebuke as we descend toward the sorrowful commemoration of Tisha b’Av, the 9th of the month of Av, on which the Temples fell. But the prophetic rebuke isn’t the end of the story; redemption is possible for the Israelites, if they commit to showing more care and justice toward each other. “Let’s make an accord. Be your sins like crimson, they can
become snow-white,” says God through Y’shayahu. We’ll observe Tisha b’Av—together with CBI, as we’ve done in the past, and also three other North Shore ...
