by Rabbi Brian | Aug 7, 2020 | 77% Weekly
“I’m proud of you. You are taking two whole nights away, just for yourself,” I hear Larry say. I re-tuck the microphone of my headset into my facemask to muffle the wind for when I talk. “Larry, it’s more that they sent me. Is that better? Can you hear me better now?”...
by Rabbi Brian | Aug 2, 2020 | 77% Weekly
July 27, 2020 7:25pm “Because a good number of healthcare workers and moms I know recommend double masking,” Jane explains as she writes 971-247-2072 on my right arm—should I need the National Lawyers Guild to bail me out. Accordingly, I put a...
by Rabbi Brian | Jul 19, 2020 | 77% Weekly
Author’s Note “You can’t send this out,” Jane said at the kitchen table, reading as I drank my smoothie this morning. The hours and words I thought you were going to read, now that she’s saved me from a very likely error in judgment,...
by Rabbi Brian | Jul 19, 2020 | 77% Weekly
The Program Setting Medford, Massachusetts, late fall 1991. My senior year. We forty residential advisors have been thirded from the lecture hall into the two nice and one not-so-nice of Tilden Hall’s classrooms for our monthly RA development program. My buddy...
by Rabbi Brian | Jul 2, 2020 | 77% Weekly
Talmud. Enraged and Loved. Didn’t see it coming I’m three classes from the end of my tenure as the substitute rabbi for a local, weekly Talmud class. I’m at the kitchen table preparing for tomorrow and excited to see that this tractate (chapter) of...
by Rabbi Brian | Jun 19, 2020 | 77% Weekly
Biking with Annie On this, our second day of Camp Spend-the-Morning-with-Dad-Thanks-to-Covid-19, Emmett peels off to bike around the park to complete his exercise commitment. Now it’s just Annie and me pedaling down residential NE Hancock on our way to pick up...
