CBI admin 7 hours ago 1 min Reb Lisa's Message Will we ever experience peace in the Middle East? Some days are darker and more bleak than others. May these words, by poet Alden Solovy,...
CBI admin May 5 2 min Reb Lisa's Message In this week’s Torah portion Behar-Bechukotai, we learn about the phenomenal concept of Shmita, usually translated as the Sabbatical...
CBI admin Apr 28 2 min Reb Lisa's Message This Thursday evening the holiday of Lag b’Omer begins. For what is considered a minor holiday on the Jewish calendar, there’s a lot of...
CBI admin Apr 21 2 min Reb Lisa's Message This moment is potent with potential. Let’s not lose momentum. Achrei Mot-Kedoshim. This week’s double Torah portion. A literal...
CBI admin Apr 14 1 min Reb Lisa's Message When Israel became a state in 1948, four new holidays were added to the Jewish calendar: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance day, which we...
CBI admin Apr 7 1 min Reb Lisa's Message - Yom HaShoah Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day, begins this evening. When the sun falls below the horizon, we enter this solemn day of...
CBI admin Mar 31 2 min Reb Lisa's Message Dayenu! It would have been enough for us! We sing this every year at the Passover seder. This year, the concept of Dayenu, and where it...
CBI admin7 hours ago1 minReb Lisa's MessageWill we ever experience peace in the Middle East? Some days are darker and more bleak than others. May these words, by poet Alden Solovy,...
CBI adminMay 52 minReb Lisa's MessageIn this week’s Torah portion Behar-Bechukotai, we learn about the phenomenal concept of Shmita, usually translated as the Sabbatical...
CBI adminApr 282 minReb Lisa's MessageThis Thursday evening the holiday of Lag b’Omer begins. For what is considered a minor holiday on the Jewish calendar, there’s a lot of...
CBI adminApr 212 minReb Lisa's MessageThis moment is potent with potential. Let’s not lose momentum. Achrei Mot-Kedoshim. This week’s double Torah portion. A literal...
CBI adminApr 141 minReb Lisa's MessageWhen Israel became a state in 1948, four new holidays were added to the Jewish calendar: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance day, which we...
CBI adminApr 71 minReb Lisa's Message - Yom HaShoahYom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day, begins this evening. When the sun falls below the horizon, we enter this solemn day of...
CBI adminMar 312 minReb Lisa's MessageDayenu! It would have been enough for us! We sing this every year at the Passover seder. This year, the concept of Dayenu, and where it...
CBI adminMar 241 minHazzan Steve's Message - Gun ViolenceI find myself for a third time in four years unable to avoid the issue of gun violence. I addressed this in 2018 after the Parkland...
CBI adminMar 171 minReb Lisa's MessageLast night, we lost eight lives to gun violence, during a shooting spree in Atlanta. Six of the victims were Asian women. Investigators...
CBI adminMar 102 minReb Lisa's MessageShabbat. The art of doing nothing. The practice of simply being. And yet this practice is far from simple. Fortunately, Torah gives us...
CBI adminMar 91 min4 Week Omer Study Session with Hazzan SteveHave you ever wondered why so many blessings begin with “Baruch Atah HaShem, Eloheinu Melech HaOlam”? Or what those words individually...
CBI adminMar 32 minReb Lisa's MessageThis week’s Parasha, Ki Tisa, brings us the infamous story of the Golden Calf. The dynamics involved in this episode provide a...
CBI adminFeb 241 minReb Lisa's Message - PurimPurim! Tomorrow! Come Celebrate in Community! Purim is many things, some of which are actually quite paradoxical. During Adar, the month...
CBI adminFeb 101 minReb Lisa's MessageReady for a change in mood and energy?! Ready to come out of the darker, colder, days of winter?! Want to step out of the serious,...
CBI adminFeb 32 minReb Lisa's MessageYesterday during Shul School, we talked about the Aseret HaDibrot, Ten Commandments, which appear in this week’s parasha, Yitro. First we...
CBI adminJan 272 minReb Lisa's MessageToday is a significant day, on both the world’s calendar and the Jewish calendar: International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day in...
CBI adminJan 201 minReb Lisa's Messageאור תקווה יחד אהבה We have been through a lot in the past two weeks, in the past two month, the past year. There has been...
CBI adminJan 132 minReb Lisa's Message - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Last week we began the Book of Shemot (Exodus), which...
CBI adminJan 132 minNational Reading of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"Please email reblisa@cbichico.org if you would like to participate in the reading. Please see eBlast for link to the live stream. On...
CBI adminJan 62 minJoy and Obstinacy – A Dvar Torah on Vay’chi 18 Tevet 5781 – January 1, 2021 וַיִּקְרָ֥א יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֶל־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ וְאַגִּ֣ידָה לָכֶ֔ם אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־יִקְרָ֥א...
