Good to be a Jew

Rabbi David L. Kline
Thoughts and experiments in the art of Jewish practice. I offer the following in answer to:
Why be Jewish? Why follow Torah? Why live on as Jews?
It’s good to be a Jew, good for the individual, the family, the community, the nation, and the world.

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Essays


     



  • CONTEMPLATING SLEEP AT 85
  • BARBARA ON CHALLAH BAKING
  • LOOKING TWICE AT THE WORLD
  • Sh'ma Echad, CCAR Journal, Spring 2012, http://ccarnet.org/rabbis-speak/ccar-journal-reform-jewish-quarterly/ 
  • THE BIG TEN
  • Development of Monarchy in Ancient Israel
  • Monotheism: How Many Gods Are There?
  • Serious Fun: Hedonic Judaism
  • When Is Rosh Hashanah! 5767 Agent of change for the better
  • Moral Judgement And Genocide
  • Realities Of Religion, II
  • Choosing Torah
  • Anti-anti-establishmentarianism (Shma Magazine) 
  • HAFTAROT in Tanach Order
  • TELLING TANACH 
  • ISAIAH 52-3, Rabbinic Bible
  • EAT OYSTERS 
  • LECHAYIM 1969 
  • BEYOND FUNDAMENTALISM (2005)
  • torah
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TANACH TALES

  • INTRODUCTION
  • **********THE WORLD**********
  • THE FIRST WEEK (Gen 1-2:4a)
  • THE GARDEN WORLD (Gen 2:4b-4:2)
  • BROTHERLY HATE (Gen 4)
  • THE FLOOD (Gen 6-9)
  • BAVEL BABEL (Gen 11)
  • **********PATRIARCHS**********
  • THE STORY STARTS (Gen 12)
  • BAD CHOICE (Gen13)
  • PROMISES IN THE DARK Gen 15
  • AVRAM AND HIS POSSE Gen 14
  • LIFE'S FULL O'CONSEQUENCE Gen 16, 21
  • BRIT CUT Gen 17
  • ANNUNCIATIONS Gen 18
  • FIRE AND BRIMSTONE Gen 19
  • TEST? Gen 22:1-19
  • AVRAM BUYS LAND Gen 23
  • WIFE? SISTER! Get 20; 12:10; 26
  • MARRIAGE ARRANGING Gen 24
  • YA'AQOV VS ESAV Gen 27ff
  • YA'AQOV DREAMS ANGELS AND MEETS YAHH Gen 28:10-22
  • SH'CHEM AND DINAH (gen 34)
  • YOUNG YOSEF Gen 37
  • TAMAR Gen 38
  • Y0SEF IN TRAINING Gen 39
  • YOSEF, PRISON DREAMS Gen 40
  • SOME BLESSING! Gen 49
  • TSIPORAH, HIDDEN HEROINE Ex 2:11-4:26; 18:1-12
  • SONG OF THE SEA Ex 15:1-21
  • UP AND DOWN MT. SINAI Ex 19, 24, 32-34
  • KORACH AND COMPANY Num 16
  • B'NOT TS'LOFCHAD Num 27, 36
  • ZOT HAB'RACHAH Dt 33
  • Y'HOSHUA AND THE BATTLES Josh 2-8
  • **********JUDGES**********
  • EHUD THE SOUTHPAW Ju 3:13-30
  • D'VORAH, LIBERATED WOMAN Ju 4,5
  • GID'ON AND SONS Ju 6-9
  • YIFTACH, THAT BASTARD Ju 10:12-12:7
  • **********DAVID, THE NOVEL**********
  • LITTLE DAVID (1Sam 16-17)
  • DAVID, Y'HONATAN (SHAUL, MICHAL) 1Sam 18-20
  • ON THE LAM 1Sam 21-24
  • BANDIT AND LOVER 1 Sam 25
  • CHIVALRY 1 Sam 26
  • DOUBLE AGENT? 1 Sam 27
  • THE WITCH AND THE GHOST 1Sam 28
  • CLOSE CALL, VENGEANCE 1Sam 29,30
  • BLOOD AND LAMENT 1Sam 31, 2Sam 1
  • BLOODY SUCCESSION 1Sam 2-4
  • DAVID MELECH YISRAEL 2 Sam 5-7
  • DAVID THE PIOUS 2Sam 7:18-29
  • DETAILS 2Sam 8
  • YONATAN'S DESCENDANTS 2Sam 9
  • **MORE KINGS AND THEIR PROPHETS**
  • THE SOUND OF SILENCE 1Ki 19
  • LEPERS SAVE THE DAY 2Ki 7:3-20
  • FOOLISH FACEOFF 2Ki 14:1-22; 2Ch 25:5-16
  • YEHU! 2 Kings 9
  • Psalms 104
  • ESTER

Favorite Quotes

It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless. Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man

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