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Irwin Keller

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Sonoma County, Ca
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Rabbi, Teacher, writer, hope-monger

Sonoma County, CA * (415) 779-4914 * Irwin@irwinkeller.com

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Long Night of Dreams

December 23, 2017 Irwin Keller
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Dreams brought me  to Germany, and ultimately to a graveyard in Waibstadt, to meet the ancestors. My first reflection on the experience.

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TedX Talk

December 19, 2017 Irwin Keller

Love, law, limits and botched sign language. This is the story of my "San Francisco wedding" – and the particular moment in time it inhabited.

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In Queer Edge, Modern Times, Favorites
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After the Disaster

October 20, 2017 Irwin Keller
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Noah and Na'amah bounced from house to house for some time. They weren't always easy to host. They would wake loudly from bad dreams; they were alternately controlling and passive, overjoyed and immobile. The Urartians didn't know whether they should ask what Noah and family had experienced, or whether they should keep a polite silence. And Noah, after a while, didn't want to tell it. After all, no one could ever really understand what they had been through. It became a story mostly discussed inside the family, and periodically presented as a special event for wide-eyed school children.

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In Torah Talk
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Week of Fire

October 13, 2017 Irwin Keller
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It has been a week of quick values clarification – determining in 15 minutes what is valuable and what, when push comes to shove, simply is not. A week of letting go of stuff, of comforts, of certainty. Of saying goodbye to beloved homes, trees, familiar wildlife and uncatchable cats. A week of letting go and driving away.

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In Modern Times
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Resistance, Transformation, Hope and Words

September 29, 2017 Irwin Keller

The angel's suggestion that behind transformation lies language – that should mean something to us. If we want to mend the field, we start with language; we start with our words. Our words conjure a world. And we want it to be a world that we want to live in.

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In Holy Daze, Ah Sweet Mystery, Modern Times
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