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Music

 

Kabbalat Shabbat Melodies

Modeh Ani  (sample from cdbaby)

Olam Chessed (sample from cdbaby)

Mizmor L'David (sample from cdbaby)

 

Ideas

 

My God Doesn't Take

A Hadran for Harry Potter (70faces)

Towards a Hopeful Judaism (jw)
A Jewish Reading List

A Place in Shul

The Passion of the Christ

In Defense of Jingle Bells (jw)

God, Sin, and Return

 

Life Moments

 

What I have learned thus far... (elul)

Where Truth Awaits

Brit Milah I  --  Brit Milah II

Changing a Jewish Culture of

      Victimization

Simcha/Joy

 

Conservative Judaism

 

A Reflection on Conservative

   Jewish Halacha

Commandedness for Moderns

CJ: A Reflection (the Forward)

The 6 Questions

Confronting the Deep

The Common Good

What's Holy and What's Not
Qualified Pluralism & Part II

Remembering Our Dreams

Expectations for the Modest

A Critique of Wissenschaft

Seeking Peace

Troubling Tradition

The role of the Schechter Day

   School in Inspiring Commitment

   and Restoring Passion to

   Conservative Judaism (sl)

 

Leadership & Activism

 

Priorities and Prophecy

Innovation and Invention (shma)

Personal Status and Jewish

      Leadership

Expectations for the Modest

The Dissatisfied Mystic
Why I Fight

The Necessity of Windows

Peace and Quiet

Shefa Leadership Choveret (editor)

Shefa Leadership Texts (editor)

 

Judaism and Homosexuality

 

Response to the CJLS Decision

                                     Part I -- Part II

The Necessity of the Whole

Troubling Tradition

A Reflection

 

 

Rabbi Menachem Creditor is rabbi of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, CA and a PEER Fellow of the STAR Foundation. He is also founder of ShefaNetwork:  (The Conservative Movement Dreaming from Within), co-founder of KeshetRabbis (The Alliance of Gay-Friendly Conservative and Masorti Rabbis), and author of TheTisch, an electronic commentary on Jewish Spirituality.  Rabbi Creditor is a popular speaker at synagogues, college campuses, and various communities on questions of Jewish Identity, Leadership, and Spirituality.  As one half of Shirav, a Jewish folk-music group, he has spread passion, comfort, and joy to audiences around North America and Israel.

 

Rabbi Creditor earned an MA in Jewish Education from The Davidson School of Jewish Education and rabbinic ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

 

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Israel

 

  ● Yearning for Home

  ● It's About Family

  ● The Absence of Jerusalem

  ● The INS Cherev

  ● Zionism as Revolution

  ● Israel Choveret 2006 (editor)

  ● On Divestment (letter to DailyCal)

 

Prayer

 

Finally Davenning Again

Saying Kaddish

On Spiritual Prayer

Circumstances for Song

A Prayer for Direction

Prayer for Building an Aron

   Kodesh

A Prayer for 9-11

On Losing a Pet

Davenning with Children (vid)

Kabbalat Shabbat Melodies

 

Holidays

 

Rosh Hashanah

  ● 5768: Love Endures

  ● Reaching Beyond

  ● RH 2007: Fun and Trembling

  ● Paralysis & Control

  ● White Robes and Infinity
Yom Kippur

  ● Love and Truth

  ● Finding a Center

  ● On Forgiveness
Sukkot

  ● Make it Happen
Shemini Atzeret

Simchat Torah
Hanukkah

  ● Contagious Flames

  ● A light is a light...isn't it?
Tu Bishvat
Purim

  ● Mahn-O-Mahn

  ● Who Was Esther Really?

  How to Treat Amalek
Passover

  ● Telling Our Story

  ● Excessive Freedom

  ● Post-Seder Questions

  ● Symbols of Pesach
Yom HaSho'ah VeHaGevurah

  ● Strange Fire

Yom Ha'atzma'ut

Shavuot
Tisha B'Av

  ● Alone-ness

  ● Sadness & Song

  ● No Time for History

  ● Ritual Sadness and Living Joy

 

9/11

  ● An Ode to Remaining Broken:

         In a New York State of Mind

  ● My Heart is in the East

  ● A Prayer for 9-11

  ● RH 2001: Universal Donors

  ● The Akeidah Post 9/11

  ● Yizkor Yom Kippur 2001

  ● A Reflection

Thanksgiving

  ● The Dust of Humanity

 

 

Text Commentaries

 

"Torah Discovery" Reader

 

Siddur Pnei Ariel*

       ● Kabbalat Shabbat

* please email rabbicreditor@shefanetwork.org for permission to distribute any part of Siddur Pnei Ariel.

 

Mishnah Berachot

     Selected Commentary

 

Gemara Berachot

     ● (Chapter 1)

     ● (Chapter 2)

     ● (Chapter 3)

     ● (Chapter 4)

     ● (Chapter 5)

     ● (Chapter 6)

     ● (Chapter 7)

     ● (Chapter 8)

     ● (Chapter 9)

 

Gemara Shabbat

     ● (Chapter 1)

     ● (Chapter 2)

     ● (Chapter 3)

     ● (Chapter 4)

     ● (Chapter 5)

     ● (Chapter 6)

     ● (Chapter 7)

     ● (Chapter 8)

     ● (Chapter 9)

     ● (Chapter 10)

     ● (Ch. 11)

     ● (Ch. 12)

     ● (Ch. 13)

     ● (Ch. 14)

 

Torah Commentary

 

Bereishit

Noach

  ● It Will be Good
Lech Lecha:

  ● Abraham and the Idols

  ● Into the Woods

  ● Wholeness and Sacrifice

  ● Ready

Vayera

  ● The Akeidah Post 9/11

  ● Seeing the Other

  ● The Quality of Sodom
Chayei Sarah

  ● Isaac's Prayer

  ● Expectations for the Modest
Toldot

  ● Toldot Unbound

  ● Why am I?

Vayetze

  ● Leah's Hidden Blessing

  ● Qualified Pluralism & Part II
Vayishlach
Vayeshev

  ● The Threat of Serenity

  ● Peace and Quiet
Mikketz

  ● Remembering Our Dreams
Vayigash

  ● Closer, Come Closer (70faces)
Vayechi


Shemot

  ● Salvation without a Name

Va'era

  ● Diving for Hidden Treasure
Bo

  ● A World of Chesed
Beshallach

  ● Born Again
Yitro

  ● Two Roots

  ● Why I Fight

  ● The Necessity of Windows

  ● Is Sculpture Idolatry?
Mishpatim
Terumah
Tetzave
Ki Tissa

Vayak'hel-Pekudei

  ● Plaquesville

  ● The Value of Things

  ● The Necessity of the Whole
 

Vayikra

Tzav
Shemini

  ● Strange Fire

Tazria-Metzora

  ● Human Boundaries and Divine Inclusion
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

  ● "Out There” or “In Here?"

  ● Troubling Tradition
Emor

  ● What's Holy and What's Not
Behar-Bechukotai
 

Bemidbar

  ● Waiting

Naso

  ● Personal Status and Jewish

     Leadership

  ● Journeying
Beha'alotkha
Shelach Lekha

  ● The Power of a Glance

  ● Yearning for Home
Korach
Chukkat
Balak
Pinchas

  ● The Mutual Vulnerability of

     Friendship

  ● It's About Family

  ● One Year Later
Mattot - Massei

 

Devarim

  ● The Absence of Jerusalem
Va'etchanan
Ekev

  ● Determined to be Hopeful

  ● Where Truth Awaits
Re'eh
Shoftim

  ● How to Judge
Ki Tetze
Ki Tavo

  ● Overcome, if only…

  ● God's Atonement

  ● Unintelligible Yet Meaningful
Nitzavim-Vayelekh

  ● Not Our Covenant

  ● Returning from Exile
Ha'azinu

  ● Is God Straight?