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Our One Wild and Precious Life
A Kol Nidre sermon about life and death. On Yom Kippur we ask the question, "Who will live and who will die?" These questions are not merely theoretical. We only have one life to live -- what is truly important in life? When tomorrow isn't guaranteed, we have to ask ourselves today: are we living the life we want?
Ariel Tovlev
Oct 36 min read
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The Birds Don't Know
A poem in response to the US presidential election
Ariel Tovlev
Nov 8, 20241 min read
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The Power of Witnessing
A Rosh Hashanah sermon on the power of showing up in community and bearing witness to each other's pain
Ariel Tovlev
Oct 8, 20247 min read
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Empathy
"the heart is never so open / as when it is broken / let it break, let it break"
Ariel Tovlev
May 29, 20241 min read
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Lessons in Grief Taught by a Teenager
A couple years ago, one of my professors died from an illness we all hoped she’d recover from. The whole college was in mourning over...
Ariel Tovlev
Dec 8, 20231 min read
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