A Moment in Time: Creating Holiness

Dear all,

Each week, I try to include a photo that evokes depth, meaning, and often whimsy. But today I present a photo of a bunch of rabbinic colleagues in a hotel meeting room. We were gathered in San Diego for the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) annual convention. Due to the pandemic, it was our first in-person conference since 2019.

It was just awesome being together!

What were we doing in this room? For just 1/2 an hour, it became our prayer space.

No Holy Ark.
No Holy Eternal Light.
No Holy Torah Scrolls.

But in that moment in time, special people prayed together. And we transformed the hotel meeting room into Holy Space.

It doesn’t take much to harness holiness. Just open your heart, allow it to receive goodness, and enter the embrace of eternity.

With love and Shalom,

Rabbi Zach Shapiro