We are taught that there is powerful light that cannot be physically seen. We must all discover and shine that light around us.
It is perhaps not strange how much I thought of my parents during the last months before I was ordained. My father died just before I entered the program, my mom while I was in it. I know my Mom was proud, and I think my Dad would have been too. I once came home from college and asked if…
It was quite an event. My grandfather was a great man. Abraham Jacob Viniar. Known as Yakov. He fled the czar, was educated for a while in Belgium, and ended up in NYC speaking Russian, Yiddish, Flemish, with a smattering of English. He went to Cooper Union, doing his work every night with a dictionary until he graduated. He served…
I was tending the flock of my father-in-law. I drove the flock into the wilderness, and I came to a beautiful mountain. Whoa, it looked like there was something in a blazing fire out of a bush. I looked, I gazed, and there was that bush all aflame, but the bush was not being consumed. I said to myself, “I…