Resources
![Rabbi Lisa D. Grant, Ph.D.](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rabbi-Lisa-D.-Grant.png)
Sukkot: The Tikkun of Climate Action
Let Sukkot be our call to action this year. May it give us the spiritual resolve to live in the midst of great uncertainty and challenge, and to take action to pursue climate justice in this vast interconnected world of ours.
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![Rabbi Guy Austrian](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Guy-Austrian-1024x890.jpeg)
Ha’Azinu: Learning From Our Ancestors with Humility and Chutzpah
We find that we have to learn from our ancestors with a dual dose of humility and chutzpah: both to learn from their wisdom, and also to transcend their limitations.
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![Rabbi Amy Eilberg](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rabbi-Amy-Eilberg.png)
Rosh Hashanah: Teshuvah, Tefilah, and Tzedakah in Israel
'On Rosh Hashanah, it is written and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed: How many will die and how many will be born? Who will live and who will die?' This is one of the most beloved and troubling of Rosh Hashanah prayers. But such is the power of great poetry.
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![Rabbi Jill Jacobs headshot](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Jill-Headshot_Smaller-Size_Updated-8-16-e1477934616176-1024x891.png)
Taking Time: A Resource for Shabbat by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
God, according to the Torah, created the world in six days and then rested on the seventh. This doesn’t mean that the world was perfect at the end of the sixth day of creation. Rather, God models the necessity of taking just one day to experience the world as it is, while acknowledging our own limitations in perfecting it.
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![Rabbi Rena Blumenthal](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Rabbi-Rena-Blumenthal-copy.png)
Nitzavim-Vayeilech: To Examine the Past Unflinchingly, We Need Community
Looking back can be terrifying. We are further protected by being a part of the covenantal community, thus we can look back safely, unflinchingly, to the very real horrors that have shaped our communities and our lives.
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![Rabbi Ilan Glazer](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Rabbi-Ilan-Glazer-Portrait.jpg)
Ki Tavo: Inscribing Ourselves with Love During National Recovery Month
What is the Torah inscribed on our lands and in our hearts? What Torah do we bring with us into a new land?
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Immigration Justice Teachings for Sukkot
The connection between Sukkot and immigration is incredibly rich.
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![Rabbi Judith Edelstein, D. Min.](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Portrait-sizer-3.png)
Ki Tetze: We Cannot Look Away
You may be familiar with the notion about the wounded healer, popularized by the author Henri Nouwen in his book by that name. He asserts: “When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed...
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![A woman in kippah and blazer speaks into a megaphone with protest in background](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Photo-Jun-05-2023-8-55-48-AM-1024x682.jpg)
Israel Resources for Clergy: High Holidays 5784
Resources for Jewish clergy preparing to talk and teach about Israel on the High Holidays.
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![Rabbi Lizz Goldstein](https://truah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Portrait-sizer-2-e1692363753805.png)
Shoftim: “Thus Blood of the Innocent Will not be Shed” The Necessity of Sanctuary
A self-proclaimed “melting pot,” a country that declared its independence by asserting that all men are created equal, should continue to be a sanctuary and refuge.
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