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Mazel tov to Zachary Oslick and his family on his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, January 15th! Zachary is in 7th grade at Parks Junior High School. He has a passion for video games, history, and traveling. He also loves to play games, especially chess. Zachary is in all honors classes, is a deep thinker and very curious about the world around…
“In our society, narrowness means the decay of truth and the “relativism” of facts. In our society, narrowness means our lack of ability to break our silos and our algorithmical segmentation, defined by our social media preferences. In our society, narrowness means being customers of propaganda as opposed to seekers of information. In our society, narrowness means the politicization of…
What could TikTok and Facebook users learn from a 600 year old man who built an ark? “These are the stories of Noah. Noah was a righteous and perfect man, for his generation” The Torah contextualizes a human being, who in the midst of a corruptive and chaotic reality is told by God to build an ark in order to…
Community of Giving Blood Drive Tuesday, February 1st, 1:00pm – 7:00pm at TBT in the Social Hall The American Red Cross is facing a national blood crisis – its worst blood shortage in over a decade, posing a concerning risk to patient care. With less than a one-day supply of critical blood types in recent weeks, the Red Cross is working around the clock…
We look forward to celebrating Sukkot with you! See below for TBT’s Schedule of activities for Sukkot Monday, September 20th at 6:00pmMaariv Service in the Sukkah Please join us for Service in the Sukkah. You are invited to bring your own dinner to enjoy following the service. Click HERE to join the Zoom Meeting ID: 840 3539 9105 Passcode: 207247 Tuesday, September 21st…
The shofar blows, evoking its multifaceted symbolism of a wake-up call, spontaneous crying, music and a call to arms. We might take a moment to recall the first mention, an allusion really, to the shofar in Judaism. Immediately we are transported back thousands of years and across the globe to the top of the Temple mount in Jerusalem. There…
#emotional-exhaustion Let me ask you to guess something: How many searches do you think are made on Google on a daily basis? Who thinks 900 Million? Who thinks 2 billion? Who thinks more than 5 billion? The number is about 5.5 billion searches per day. Now let me share with you another amazing fact: On August 16, 2013, Google was…
Parashat Ki Tavo is one of the two Tochecha Torah portions. Tochecah means rebuke. But this is not a friendly rebuke, not even a tough criticism. This rebuke is more of a threat. ARUR Ha’Ish, ARUR Ha’Am – cursed be the person, cursed be the people who fall into this or that behavior…Now, the lists of wrongdoings and curses are very explicit…
In 1845 Heinrich Hoffman wrote the famous —Struwwelpeter, or in its English version “Shockheaded Peter”. The book tells several stories, presenting pretty horrifying consequences of children’s misbehavior. It has a very clear methodology and goal, scaring children for the sake of preventing misbehavior. Even when written thousands of years earlier, this week’s Sidrah is Torah’s version of Shockheaded Peter. We…
What would it take for us to stop what we are doing? Eikev, the name of this Sidra means: since or because, but it also means heel, the part of our bodies that connects us to earth, the component upon which everything else stands. Tonight, originally, I wanted to talk about foundational – core values as a general concept. However…
