Message from Rabbi Howard Jaffe

On Yom Kippur, I shared a sermon referencing a Talmudic passage which says that when we die, we are going to be asked six questions. As you may recall, I invited the members of our congregation to submit their own questions. I want to start sharing these questions a few at a time, adding some new ones every few weeks, that they might inspire us to be mindful of the ways in which we live, and find ourselves aligned with the values and principles by which our lives ought to be judged. Did you find a good balance between service to others, your own family, and yourself?  Did you let others love you?  Did you learn from your mistakes?  Have you hidden behind "individual initiative" as an excuse for avoiding community and collective actions that promote justice?  Shalom, Howard Jaffe