![Rabbi Scott Shafrin is Associate Rabbi at Kol Rinah and a member of the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, which coordinates the weekly d’var Torah for the Light.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/00ab223cae9ed9f76236e1800ae53690.jpg)
Coming close to where we need to be
BY RABBI SCOTT SHAFRIN
• Published January 2, 2020
![Rabbi Josef Davidson serves Congregation B’nai Amoona and is a member of the St. Louis Rabbinical and Cantorial Association, which coordinates the weekly d’var Torah for the Jewish Light.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/5890e997141ffb2b82cdd705ae30e075.jpg)
A story we often don’t study in religious school
BY RABBI JOSEF DAVIDSON
• Published December 12, 2019
![Rabbi Josef Davidson](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/a4e24039f0de6898c5109e98720111e6.jpg)
Appreciate the present with a recitation of the past
BY RABBI JOSEF DAVIDSON
• Published September 19, 2019
![Rabbi Josef Davidson](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/a4e24039f0de6898c5109e98720111e6.jpg)
Unconditional love. What a blessing!
By Rabbi Josef Davidson
• Published June 13, 2019
![Rabbi Josef Davidson](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/a4e24039f0de6898c5109e98720111e6.jpg)
Why Be Jewish? To strive for holy, meaningful lives
By Rabbi Josef Davidson
• Published May 9, 2019
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Me, too? Sarah and Abraham, right and wrong
BY RABBI JOSEF A. DAVIDSON
• Published October 18, 2018
![Rabbi Josef Davidson](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/964273bc00e44319481c8524b564ca2e.jpg)
Serving others while suffering personal pain
BY RABBI JOSEF DAVIDSON
• Published April 11, 2018
![Rabbi Josef Davidson speaks at a 2015 Hunger Seder held by the Jewish Community Relations Council.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/64540fb226ddb2f9ec4343a42f75b2a9.jpg)
B’nai Amoona salutes Rabbi Josef Davidson
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published June 8, 2017
![Rabbi Josef Davidson serves Congregation B’nai Amoona and is a member of the St. Louis Rabbinical Association.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/69ad83fb145a95648542f126302160bf.jpg)
Lifting the plague of darkness
By Rabbi Josef Davidson
• Published February 1, 2017
Parashat Nitzavim: We are blessed with choices, if not control
By Rabbi Josef A. Davidson
• Published September 28, 2016
![Rabbi Josef A. Davidson serves Congregation B’nai Amoona.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/9efb879c78b0e8127375492a22d2965e.jpg)
Holiness as personal responsibility
By Rabbi Josef A. Davidson
• Published May 4, 2016
![Rabbi Josef A. Davidson serves Congregation B’nai Amoona.](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/11fcdc402bb1e087be7b280c8c5e772b.jpg)
An uplifting Torah portion
By Rabbi Josef A. Davidson
• Published February 24, 2016
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