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Rabbi Sara Mason-Barkin
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Mending our Cracked Vessels and Healing our Broken Selves

Rabbi Sara Mason-Barkin, Rosh Hashanah 5780 Congregation Beth Israel, Scottsdale, Arizona I hope that many of you have had the chance to visit the celebrated Israel museum in Jerusalem. Home to famous works of art, like Robert Indiana’s Ahavah sculpture, a scale model of the temple in Jerusalem, as well…

Judaism

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Mending our Cracked Vessels and Healing our Broken Selves
Mending our Cracked Vessels and Healing our Broken Selves
Judaism

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A Letter to My Daughter

In recognition of Shabbat Shuvah, and in memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Rabbi Sara Mason-Barkin, 9.25.2020 Shabbat Shuvah Congregation Beth Israel, Scottsdale, Arizona Dear Sela Penina, my daughter, my girl: Tonight is Shabbat Shuva, a Shabbat of turning — a time for turning inwards, for reflection on who and how…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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A Letter to My Daughter
A Letter to My Daughter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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·6 days ago

These Are The Good Old Days

A Rosh Hashanah Message Join me on a mental journey to your favorite Jewish deli. You could open the expansive menu, but I know you’ve got your go-to dish. Rabbi Kahn would order Pastrami on Rye with the cole slaw on the sandwich, but the dressing on the side. Cantor…

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These Are The Good Old Days
These Are The Good Old Days
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·May 25

Fondue, Crystal Vases, and the Torah

Using our Greatest Gifts This drash was delivered several years ago. I offer it again today in honor of Shavuot, and our 15 year wedding anniversary. My husband and I are blessed to be celebrating our eleventh wedding anniversary tomorrow. The last eleven years feel at once like a moment…

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Fondue, Crystal Vases, and the Torah
Fondue, Crystal Vases, and the Torah
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·May 1

Be Mine

Welcoming the Jewish Adjacent Do you remember those hard candy hearts with a message printed on them? You’d get a box of them for Valentine’s Day, and choose which message to give to which friend. For your bestie, maybe it says ‘cutie pie,’ or for an acquaintance, it says ‘stay…

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Be Mine
Be Mine
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·Apr 18

To Sit at the Head of the Table

A tribute to my Zaide on his 11th Yartzeit My Zaide was tall. Or at least, I remember him that way. Marking his 11th yartzeit this week memories of him are close at hand. Sitting in his armchair with a huge book. Long talks about the future, or the news…

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To Sit at the Head of the Table
To Sit at the Head of the Table
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·Mar 14

A Stiff Necked Balancing Act

Responding to Antisemitism like a Fiddler on the Roof A fiddler on the roof… Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof. Trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck…

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A Stiff Necked Balancing Act
A Stiff Necked Balancing Act
Anti Semitism

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·Jan 29

Torah in the Hands of our Teens

As they bring holy lessons to Capitol Hill On Monday, I stood in a park across the street from the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. I was with forty tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders from Congregations Beth Israel and Temples Chai, Solel, and Kol Ami. A group of…

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Torah in the Hands of our Teens
Torah in the Hands of our Teens
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·Dec 7, 2022

Ascending Jacob’s Ladder

An Interfaith Pilgrimage to the Holy Land The trip began on the ground, at home. We checked the weather and selected appropriate clothes. We made arrangements for carpools and play dates and babysitters so that my parents would have all the support they needed to watch our children while we…

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Ascending Jacob’s Ladder
Ascending Jacob’s Ladder
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Oct 30, 2022

What Do We See On The Horizon?

Counting our blessings on even our darkest days. Nobody walks in LA. I lived there for ten years, and so much of that time was spent in the car. Especially the years when I had internships in the San Fernando Valley. Each day after classes I’d spend an hour or…

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What Do We See On The Horizon?
What Do We See On The Horizon?
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Rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Scottsdale, AZ.

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