Bylined opinion and news columns published by United Hebrew Congregation Terre Haute.
The High Holidays have passed, but we still have the opportunity to take stock of our lives.
What obligations and tasks have we performed well? What could we improve? And if goals yet remain, how do we reach those goals?
During this time, I also like to reflect on what is good in my life.
All of us can easily recognize aspects of our daily lives that do not satisfy. But how often do we also recognize the good?
United Hebrew Congregation board members and volunteers approached the High Holidays with busy preparation.
We’re deeply involved in restoration, maintenance and security projects, the gratifying result of both monetary contributions and volunteer efforts of many individuals.
Next time you visit the synagogue, look around and view the improvements you have helped achieve!
Once again, the month of Elul is upon us and at the end of September, Rosh Hashanah.
This yearly cycle gives us all the opportunity for cheshbon hanefesh, or engaging in an audit or accounting of the soul. This accounting provides us the time to consider how we might improve our personal lives and rectify wrongs done to others.
Personal soul audits are not the only audits we can perform. Our congregation also looks at its collective soul, which is grounded in UHC’s mission statement. What have we accomplished as a congregation? What more can we do to live out our mission statement?
Shalom, all!
My name is Remy Liverman and I am delighted a to be joining United Hebrew Congregation as your student rabbi for the coming year.
A little about my personal background: I was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, Canada. My family and I were active members of Temple Sinai in the greater Toronto area, and I spent my summers at Camp Northland B’nai B’rith in northern Ontario.