]> http://www.shalomctr.org/taxonomy/term/69/all en http://www.shalomctr.org/node/701 <p>Rabbi Susan Grossman, 10/22/2004</p> <p>Sermon for Lech Lecha 5765 (2004)</p> <p>How to Go To War: Lessons from Father Abraham</p> <p>By Rabbi Susan Grossman<br /> Beth Shalom Congregation<br /> Columbia, Maryland</p> <p>The Book of Genesis is filled with firsts: the first couple, Adam and Eve, the first murder, Cain slaying Abel, the first Jews, Abraham and Sarah.</p> <p>Our parsha this morning, Lecha Lecha, introduces us to another first, the first war ever waged in the world: the war of the four Kings of Shinar, Elasar, Elam and Goum who attacked the five kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Zoar.</p> Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:30:07 -0500 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/6 <p>Rabbi Arik Ascherman<br /> Dear Friends,</p> <p>I am enclosing an essay that Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel, recently wrote about their experience helping Palestinians whose olive groves had been attacked by settlers. (In a s</p> Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:46:40 -0400 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/276 <p>Rabbi Arthur Waskow</p> <p><B>Between the Fires</p> <p></B><br /> We are the generation that stands<br /> between the fires:<br /> Behind us the flame and smoke<br /> that rose from Auschwitz and Hiroshima;<br /> and from the burning Amazon;<br /> Before us the nightmare of a Flood of Fire,<br /> The flame and smoke that could consume all earth.</p> <p>It is our task to make from fire not an all-consuming blaze<br /> But the light in which we see each other fully.<br /> All of us different, All of us bearing<br /> One Spark.<br /> We light these fires to see more clearly<br /> That the earth and all who live as part of it<br /> Are not for burning.<br /> We light these fires to see more clearly</p> Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:27:06 -0400