Contained within every ending is also a new beginning. View the study sheet here. Watch the recording here.
We can’t avoid endings. A friendship breaks up. A marriage dissolves. A job is terminated. And the most unavoidable ending, death.
We may not be able to avoid endings, but we can create new beginnings. The power to overcome the crush of loss, to make new meaning where the old has lost purchase, to break free of the bonds of confinement is one of the gifts that was breathed into us as human beings by the Source of all life.
Torah teaches us over and over that what appears to be an ending carries within it new beginning. We learn this not through the language of theology or philosophy or doctrine. We learn it through the language of narrative, the story of our lives. So it is with this week’s Torah portion, which begins with death and concludes with new hope.
Join us here at 7:00 p.m. (PDT) Thursday October 28 as we explore the end as also a beginning.
