Rabbi Harold Kushner Articles By Rabbi Harold Kushner
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Some Meanings of Brit Milah
The message to the one who is circumcised: The covenant involves pain and sacrifice as well as honor and sanctity. And it is part of who you are, branded into your flesh at birth.
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Praying in Hebrew
Sometimes not understanding the words can actually enhance the experience of prayer.
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When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Suffering is meaningless unless you decide otherwise.
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Synagogues Instead of Cathedrals
Dispersion and uncertainty discouraged Jews from investing in cathedral-like synagogues, but they found a substitute in another dimension.
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Torah Study as Worship
If worship is the effort to connect to God, Judaism teaches that we don't have to do all the work ourselves.
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Harold Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in the Boston suburb of Natick, Massachusetts. He is the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People.
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