|
Dear Temple Micah Community,
I am honored and humbled to step into the role of Senior Rabbi of Temple Micah in July and I am grateful to our board, leaders, staff, and congregants for the care, discernment, and trust that brought us to this moment.
Ever since I first walked through the doors at 2829 Wisconsin Ave as a summer intern in 2012, Temple Micah felt like home. Thirteen years later—amid change within our congregation and across a turbulent world—Micah has remained grounded in what matters most: a Judaism that is alive, searching, and deeply human.
At heart, I understand the Jewish story the way the Torah introduces it—with Abraham and Sarah setting out before they know where the road will lead. It’s a tradition that lasts not because it hands us easy answers, but because it teaches us how to live with real questions. And at its best, the synagogue is where we learn to live those questions together.
That is why I love Temple Micah. This community understands Jewish life as a covenantal project—one that affirms human dignity, welcomes complexity, and insists that holiness must spill outward into the world. Here, the synagogue is more than a schedule or a set of programs. It is a house of discovery: prayer shapes the self, learning binds us to memory, and community trains us to take responsibility for one another. Like the Hanukkah lights we place in the window, Micah keeps Jewish life visible, luminous, and strong.
It is from that strength that we now look ahead. My commitment is to tend what has been built while helping us continue to grow. We live in a moment that is asking real questions of Jewish communities—about meaning, about depth, about what we pass on. How do we cultivate lives shaped by more than consumption? How do we hand the next generation a Judaism that’s alive, not just remembered? How do we create spaces where people can speak honestly about doubt and hope, and still reach for something transcendent?
That’s the ongoing work of a living synagogue—countercultural in its insistence on rest, reverence, and responsibility, and rooted in one of the great moral and spiritual conversations of human civilization.
The work ahead will be shared. I look forward to listening deeply, learning together, and continuing to build a synagogue that binds past, present, and future—and that helps us live what we pray.
Thank you for welcoming me home once again. I am grateful to walk this path with you.
With appreciation and hope,
| 
