A Bisl Torah

Change doesn’t transpire overnight. It almost never does. The process may take days, months, even years.

To Norm, providing a community when someone is struggling or celebrating is the foundation of synagogue life.

While most birthdays feel special in some way or another, my 40th feels significant.

Each human is connected by a “trail of time.” A constant traveling that allows us to honor the past and encourages us to keep moving, walking towards dreams inspired by long-ago. 

When we walk with each other, show up and fall in step, we stand on the shoulders of angels, transforming into God’s messengers, adding holiness to a fractured world.

Miraculously, just like the sun after blinding rain, we also hold the gift to replenish and seeds to restore. 

This is your moment to grasp. Don’t miss a single second.

May our children learn to catch someone when they fall. And may they learn from us, noticing our extended reach.

The more we habituate words of self-affirmation, the more we might start believing them.

Our tradition teaches us that a child grows not out of fear. Rather, a child grows through a foundation of love.