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Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Rabbi Amy Eilberg serves as a spiritual director, peace educator, justice activist, and teacher of Mussar. She leads efforts on racial justice and inclusion for the Conservative movement and lives in Los Altos. Learn more about her work at rabbiamyeilberg.com.

black and white drawing of nadav and avihu being thrown backwards by a flash of light
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In praise of silence: Sometimes the wisest move is to keep your mouth shut

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 4, 2024April 4, 2024
an antique drawing of a great cloud hovering over the mishkan with israelites worshipping
Posted inJewish Life

This week’s Torah portion wants us to loosen our grip on wealth

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 16, 2024February 16, 2024
"Joseph Reveals His Dream" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inJewish Life

Choosing ‘senseless love’ over ‘senseless hatred’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg December 7, 2023December 7, 2023
'Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat’ (1570) by Flemish painter Simon de Myle
Posted inTorah

Prayer can be a shaft of light during the darkest times

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg October 19, 2023
A structure on Mount Gerizim, a site associated with blessings in this week's Torah portion, seen in an 1881 illustration by Henry Fenn.
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The lengthy list of curses in Torah reflects our primal brain

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg August 31, 2023August 31, 2023
Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, "Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianites," 1650 (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTorah

The Torah cannot justify revenge attacks in the West Bank

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg July 13, 2023July 14, 2023
The illustration that inspired this column by artist Davi Cheng (Copyright Be'Chol Lashon)
Posted inTorah

Mount Sinai’s lessons include a powerful one about Jews of color

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg May 25, 2023May 25, 2023
"Pharaoh's Army Engulfed by the Red Sea" by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1900
Posted inTorah

Post-seder postscript: Why not hate the Egyptians?

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg April 7, 2023
Two Jewish girls protesting against child slavery with signs in English and Yiddish, 1909. (Photo/Library of Congress-George Grantham Bain collection)
Posted inColumns

Looking at slavery in the Torah through a modern lens

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 17, 2023
"Joseph, Overseer of the Pharaoh's Granaries" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1874
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The ABC’s of fixing a relationship SNAFU in your life

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg December 30, 2022

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