Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh

Friends,

Into the new year and the new decade, please take the following words of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, one of the greatest living contemporary Jewish teachers.

I wish us all Shalom / Peace,

Rabbi Landau

Thank G-d for the Courage to Live with Uncertainty.

The Times – Credo –December 2009

Rabbi Lord (Jonathan) Sacks

Chief Rabbi of British Co...

The Dark of the Moon

A relentless stream of endings and new beginnings seems to be pressing in upon us.

Today (as I write) is 29 Kislev. As the sun sets tonight the month of Kislev ends, and tomorrow it will rise on a new month--the New Moon, Rosh Chodesh--the month of Tevet. On December 21 the solar calendar passes winter solstice, and the days, thankfully, will begin to lengthen once again. A few days later we observe the secular New ...

Excerpted from the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture...

But we do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected. We do not have to live in an idealized world to still reach for those ideals that will make it a better place. The non-violence practiced by men like Gandhi and King may not have been practical or possible in every circumstance, but the love that they preac...

Who Should We Take Care Of ?

On Sunday December 14, 2008, about 120 Jews from Greater Hartford gathered at Tikvoh at the invitation of the Federation and JCRC. Our mission was to begin to face the suffering of our neighbors in poverty in Hartford. This is a version of the remarks I made at that meeting.

My charge is to try to explain--in 5 minutes or less, of course...