Parshat Chayyei Sarah: The Wisdom of Growing Old
This week in my video blog, I discuss Parshat Chayyei Sarah, the wisdom of growing old, and the results of a remarkable psychological study that “tricked&...
Author: Rabbi Boris Dolin
My New Weekly Video Series
I have started a new video series reflecting on the weekly Torah portion, current events, spirituality and more. From traditional commentaries, to co...
The Time to Listen
Listen to the dvar Torah I gave at Shabbat services on June 6th, 2020. Reflections on the protests, Black Lives Matter and how to listen as Jews.
And We Shall Live
Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim, Leviticus 18:5 וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֤ם אֶת־חֻקֹּתַי֙ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֔י אֲשֶׁ֨ר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֹתָ֛ם הָאָדָ֖ם וָחַ֣י בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃ Yo...
Making Time to Remember
It is one of the most moving moments of the annual Montreal Yom Hashoah commemoration. After an evening of readings, songs and stories of individual surviv...
A Practical Passover
I am sure I am not the only one who gets as much joy out of planning for our Passover seders as the seder itself. In past years, I would often spend at least a ...
Baking Bread Before Passover
I know that this is the time to clean my house rid my drawers and cabinets of the crumbs the remains of all that has risen, and held me back the mis...
The Meaning of Sacrifice
Life gives us many changes in perspective, but I never thought I would see one like this. I doubt any of us thought that a pandemic of this scale was even possi...
A New Reality
I have never been a morning person, but it has been especially hard to wake up the past few days. Living through this pandemic, each morning brings more b...
What is Our Song?
(Reposting of my sermon from three years ago) Of all the countries in Europe, Estonia is not the largest, and clearly not the most well known. A small country ...