Yom Kippur | Rabbi Benjy Forester | October 2, 2025
Yom Kippur 5786/2025 Blum Community Hall – Anshe Emet Synagogue Rabbi Benjy Forester The scene: Rehovot, Israel, June 17, 1965. A crowd of scientists and dignitaries gathers at the Weizmann Institute for the dedication ceremony of the first computer ever created in Israel. Gershom Scholem, the global authority on Jewish mysticism, is invited to Continue Reading »
Rosh Hashanah | Rabbi Benjy Forester | September 24, 2025
Rosh Hashanah 5786/2025 Rabbi Benjy Forester The writer James Williams, not to be confused with the psychologist William James, points out the following fact: Axes existed for 1.2 million years before anyone thought to put a handle on them. Eventually, it dawned on someone to do so, making axes both safer and more efficient. The Continue Reading »
Rosh Hashanah | Rabbi Benjy Forester | September 26, 2023
Rabbi Benjy Forester Anshe Emet Synagogue Rosh Hashanah 5784 / 2023 Sanctuary Service “Leave Your Raft Behind” I’m told that when the great scholar and activist Abraham Joshua Heschel would interview candidates for the Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School, he liked to ask them what 3 things they would take with them to a desert Continue Reading »
