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The Fly Fishing Rabbi: The Film 2012 and The End of The World
This past weekend a new movie came out, 2012, in which human civilization will comes to an end on December 21st, the winter solstice, in the year 2012. The film is based on an interpretation of the ancient Mayan Long Calendar. The Mayan civilization...
Dateline: 2009-11-16 8:31am PT (801 words)
 
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The Fly Fishing Rabbi: The Diva of Din and Self-Awareness
Florence Foster Jenkins was an operatic singer who performed in New York City for decades, singing her last show at Carnegie Hall in 1944. Mrs. Jenkins portrayed herself as a legitimate opera singer yet she had little sense of pitch and could not sustain...
Dateline: 2009-11-02 10:46am PT (642 words)
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The Fly Fishing Rabbi: The Religious and Secular Conflict in Israel
The current religious/secular divide in the State of Israel in part came about as a result of secular Jews ignoring their religious past. The Jews who came to Palestine in the late 19th Century were determined to leave behind their history. They arrived...
Dateline: 2009-10-26 10:31am PT (514 words)
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The Fly Fishing Rabbi: An Extinct Trout Stream
With Fall upon us, my fishing season is nearing its end as the temperature continues to drop. On a recent fishing trip in October, I felt the chill of the water on my hands and the brisk air in my lungs. I was reminded of a much earlier fly fishing out...
Dateline: 2009-10-20 10:01am PT (763 words)
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The Fly Fishing Rabbi: Visiting a Soup Kitchen
The day after Yom Kippur, I received a phone call from one of my congregants who invited me to the Dorothy Day Hospitality House, the soup kitchen in Danbury, CT. On Yom Kippur, one of my sermons was about the importance of being an ethical Jew as well ...
Dateline: 2009-10-07 8:45am PT (677 words)
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The Fly Fishing Rabbi: Which Bread Do I Cast for My Sins?
The word tashlich means “to cast out” and refers to a short service that takes place on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah near a body of water. Each person throws breadcrumbs into the water, representing our wrongdoings. By casting the crumbs, we symbo...
Dateline: 2009-09-21 11:45am PT (927 words)
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