Working to repair the world, one sketchnote at a time
Let My People Go! This week’s Torah portion is called “Bo” [Go]. It culminates the Ten Plagues and ends with the slaying of the first born Egyptians and Pharaoh’s acquiescence to Moses’ demands to the let the Israelites go. This is my second consecutive sketchnote based on a d’var Torah by Rabbi Sarah Bassin of Temple Emanuel […]
Kotzer ruach – “shortness of spirit or “shortness of breath” is the gift given to our ancestors by 400 years of bondage. G-d tells Moses to tells the Israelites that they would be delivered. They were too tired of body and spirit to understand what freedom meant, much less even think about what they might […]
In 1 minute and 37 seconds, Cantor Ellen Dreskin talks about the spirality of individual notes and how context matters in the video “Creating Moments and Melodies for Ourselves.”So beautifully stated with great imagery, I just had to sketchnote it. One Minute of Wonder with Cantor Ellen Dreskin: Creating Moments and Melodies for Ourselves from CCAR […]
Rabbi Peter Knobel, in his d’var Torah Who is This God? “Eyheh-Asher-Ehyeh” speaks of the conversation between G-d and Moses at the burning bush. Moses agrees to lead the Israelites from bondage but appears a bit unsure that they will follow based on his word. So in Exodus 3:13-14 he asks G-d When I come to […]
Michael Smerconish recently gave the commencement address at the Klein College of Media and Communications at Temple University. He spoke about rejection and failure and passed on to the graduates the lessons he learned from them. Failure and Rejection A person of diverse skills and talents, Mr. Smerconish’s talk pointed not to his successes but […]