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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

How to live forever —  a dvar Torah on Parashat Vayechi

‘How to live forever’ —  a d’var Torah on Parashat Vayechi

Rabbi James BennettPublished December 28, 2023

Do you want to live forever? Do you want to be remembered? Who are you and who do you wish to be? Questions such as these loom large in each of our lives as we move gracefully or otherwise through the passing years of our personal journeys. This year...

Rabbi Lane Steinger serves Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community in St. Louis.

We pray 2021 will be a year of true kindness

BY RABBI LANE STEINGERPublished January 1, 2021

I write this message during a season of endings. The secular year is coming to its close, and this Shabbat we fittingly will read the concluding parashah of B’reyshit, the Book of Genesis. Our Torah Reading is Va-y’chi, Genesis 47:28-50:26, which...

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