Torah from The Tisch
Music
● Modeh Ani (sample from cdbaby)
● Olam Chessed (sample from cdbaby)
● Mizmor L'David (sample from cdbaby)
Ideas
● A Hadran for Harry Potter (70faces)
●
Towards a Hopeful Judaism
(jw)
●
A Jewish
Reading List
● In Defense of Jingle Bells (jw)
Life Moments
● What I have learned thus far... (elul)
● Brit Milah I -- Brit Milah II
● Changing a Jewish Culture of
Conservative Judaism
● A Reflection on Conservative
● CJ: A Reflection (the Forward)
●
What's
Holy and What's Not
●
Qualified
Pluralism
&
Part II
● The role of the Schechter Day
School in Inspiring Commitment
Leadership & Activism
● Innovation and Invention (shma)
●
The
Dissatisfied Mystic
●
Why
I Fight
● Shefa Leadership Choveret (editor)
● Shefa Leadership Texts (editor)
Judaism and Homosexuality
● Response to the CJLS Decision
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.
Israel
● Israel Choveret 2006 (editor)
● On Divestment (letter to DailyCal)
Prayer
● Davenning with Children (vid)
Holidays
Rosh Hashanah
●
White
Robes and Infinity
Yom Kippur
●
On
Forgiveness
Sukkot
●
Make it Happen
Shemini Atzeret
Simchat Torah
Hanukkah
●
A
light is a light...isn't it?
Tu Bishvat
Purim
●
How
to Treat Amalek
Passover
●
Symbols of Pesach
Yom HaSho'ah VeHaGevurah
Yom Ha'atzma'ut
Shavuot
Tisha B'Av
● Ritual Sadness and Living Joy
9/11
Thanksgiving
Text Commentaries
● Siddur Pnei Ariel*
* please email rabbicreditor@shefanetwork.org for permission to distribute any part of Siddur Pnei Ariel.
● Mishnah Berachot
● Gemara Berachot
● (Chapter 1)
● Gemara Shabbat
● (Ch. 13)
● (Ch. 14)
Torah Commentary
◄ Bereishit ►
Noach
● Ready
Vayera
●
The
Quality of Sodom
Chayei Sarah
●
Expectations
for the Modest
Toldot
Vayetze
●
Qualified
Pluralism
&
Part II
Vayishlach
Vayeshev
●
Peace and Quiet
Mikketz
●
Remembering
Our Dreams
Vayigash
●
Closer, Come Closer
(70faces)
Vayechi
◄ Shemot
►
Va'era
●
Diving
for Hidden Treasure
Bo
●
A
World of Chesed
Beshallach
●
Born
Again
Yitro
●
Is
Sculpture Idolatry?
Mishpatim
Terumah
Tetzave
Ki Tissa
Vayak'hel-Pekudei
◄ Vayikra ►
Tzav
Shemini
●
Strange
Fire
Tazria-Metzora
●
Human
Boundaries
and Divine Inclusion
Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
●
Troubling
Tradition
Emor
●
What's
Holy and What's Not
Behar-Bechukotai
◄ Bemidbar ►
● Waiting
Naso
●
Journeying
Beha'alotkha
Shelach Lekha
●
Yearning for Home
Korach
Chukkat
Balak
Pinchas
●
One Year Later
Mattot - Massei
◄ Devarim ►
●
The
Absence of Jerusalem
Va'etchanan
Ekev
●
Where Truth Awaits
Re'eh
Shoftim
●
How
to Judge
Ki Tetze
Ki Tavo
●
Unintelligible
Yet Meaningful
Nitzavim-Vayelekh
●
Returning from Exile
Ha'azinu