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Irwin Keller

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Rabbi, Teacher, writer, hope-monger

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

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By Our Own Hands (Vayakhel in Quarantine)

March 21, 2020 Irwin Keller

But whatever is ahead, the best of it will come from the people. We, the people, whose inspired ideas and skilled fingers will concoct new ways of being together, new ways of being, period.

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In COVID Journal, Torah Talk
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Koved – Virus and Humanity

March 6, 2020 Irwin Keller
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In this moment of unfolding epidemic, I am called to honor the complexity of the Creation we live in. This Creation in which uncountable species compete for space and survival, including the tiniest ones, who can sometimes, without malice, take down the mightiest among us.

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In Modern Times, COVID Journal
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Nora Tehilot: Finding the Words

February 8, 2020 Irwin Keller
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This turns the prayer experience into a bad first date. Like here you are, face to face at last with God, and it all seems like empty small talk. Or bad pickup lines. “Wow. Who is there like you? Awe-inspiring, working wonders.” 

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In Torah Talk
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I Am What I Am

January 17, 2020 Irwin Keller
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Ehyeh asher ehyeh. I am what I am. I am what I am and I barely know what I am. Let alone what you are. Maybe ehyeh asher ehyeh is an invitation for us to see the greatness, the expansiveness, the Divine in each other. To see everything in us – no matter how we judge ourselves – as a gift. Like that old Leonard Bernstein joke.

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May the Angel: A Song for Parashat Vayechi

January 6, 2020 Irwin Keller
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A song (recording and sheet music) drawn from Jacob’s farewell blessing of his grandchildren.

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In Torah Talk, Music
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