Author Archives: Rabbi Lisa Sari Bellows
2014 Rosh Hashanah Sermon~Two Days Before the Bat Mitzvah: An Ethical Will to Our Children
G, our twelve and a half year old daughter’s Bat Mitzvah is in a few days: Two Days actually. It is on Shabbat Shuva, the Shabbat in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This, as you know is not the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bat Mitzvah, Children, Ethical Wills, High Holidays, Israel, Mindful Parenting, parenting, Rosh Hashana, Rosh Hashanah Sermon
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Israel, Compassion and The Self
When I was in college, my Muslim friend Alia and I, with the help of Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, who gave us $2500 seed money, created the student organization P.E.A.C.E: People Encouraging Acceptance through Communication and Education … Continue reading
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Holy Time, Holy Place*
Morning Tefillah (prayer): Holy Time, Holy Place At 7:30 in the morning we welcome Tiferet campers to the outdoor tefillah (prayer) space. The chairs in the Tiferet Beit Tefillah [sanctuary] are tree stumps, and in the ark made of clear … Continue reading
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Celebrate School Spirit (of Self)
My three children have participated in exactly two school spirit days. One in 2010 and the other in 2013 the years of the Blackhawk’s Stanley Cup Championships. School Spirit Day; a day designed to generate a sense of solidarity and camaraderie fails miserably … Continue reading
A View From the Pulpit~ from my Kol Nidre Sermon 2013 5774
I’d like to share with you something I’ve done since my first pulpit, as a student rabbi, in Joplin, Mo. I have never talked about it, but have always wanted to write about it. It begins when I see you … Continue reading
Get A New Goal
Rabbi Lisa Sari Bellows Get a New Goal Rosh Hashanah 5774 2013 It may come as a surprise to you that as the High Holy Days approach many rabbis around the country go into, what I would call, an annual … Continue reading
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Tagged inner-critic, perfectionism, Rosh Hashanah, self-care, Sermon
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Think! It’s A New Year!
Yesterday afternoon I watched the movie Hannah Arendt, about the German-Jewish philosopher, historian, political theorist, and journalist who covered the 1961 Nazi war crime trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem for the New Yorker. Her conclusions and thoughts were published … Continue reading
Forgiveness
This Elul (2013) i have read many beautiful pieces on the importance of asking for forgiveness from the transgressions that we commit against our selves. I am grateful for of all who have written about this and who have … Continue reading
Comfort
Shabbat Shalom from camp! Today is Shabbat Nachamu~Sabbath of hope and comfort. I am keenly aware this shabbat of how much comfort our people/this world/we need. From a homesick camper to an exhausted counselor. From a wounded heart to people … Continue reading
Ayin Tova: To See The Good 
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