Every Day Blessings
On the Road with Rebba Raine
David I was driving up to Denton, TX from Austin last Friday morning. I am the president of the Tejas Storyteller’s Association and I had an executive board meeting to chair. If I start right after the morning traffic rush, and make a few strategic stops along the...
Maggidah on the Road
Hi! I am back, better than ever, with new blog posts as we move towards the New Year. I want to start out with a definition of what it means to be a Maggidic Rabbi. The term, “Maggidic Rabbi” was coined by our Associate Rabbi here at HaShem’s House International,...
Storytelling Goes Mainstream
In addition to being Rebba Raine-Chief Rabbi and CEO at HaShem’s House International, here in Austin, I am also President of TSA (Tejas Storyteller’s Association) for the state of Texas, as well as the vice-president of my local storytelling guild here in Austin. As...
Karma
Dear Ones, Yesterday was an Aunt Chickie day. Aunt Chickie is my 94 year old Aunt whose words of wisdom often come to me, in her voice, in my mind, when her truism are holding court in my llife. Yesterday, after a visit to my lymphedema therapist @ St. David’s here in...
Going Back in Time
Dear Ones, Yesterday I was with Robyn, my co-author, and we were going over edits on our book, I Was Never Broken. We had been doing the same thing the week before, in our editing meeting. As we started the work, I admitted to Robyn, that last week I had left with a...
Too Close to Home
Dear Ones, Already down this past weekend by the news that Rev. Orah Gibbons had passed away, quietly in her sleep, I was even further upset by recent happenings in NJ. A suspected Militant Muslim, from Elizabeth, NJ, has been taken into custody after a shoot out in...
Rambling w/Rebba Raine: 9/11…rememberance
Nine-eleven…I shall never forget. It was my son, Ian’s, first day as a substitute teacher in my school district. He was downtown, Newark, at our Market Street vocational location. He called me on my cell. “Mom, Dr. Noble just told me to bring my gym class inside the...
A Moment in Time
Dear Ones, Last night, at a Landmark Forum Seminar on Integrity, I, along with 150 other of HaShem’s children, witnessing a stunning moment in time. I want to put it into words, particularly because it relates to how many of us felt after 9/11…for just a moment in...
Davey’s Great Grandmother
Dear Ones: This was a difficult week for me. My grandson Davey was not feeling well-a summer cold. And his Mommy and Daddy weren’t feeling well either. And they both had deadlines. And the Nanny got a teaching job in Killeen and the new Nanny isn’t starting until this...
Happy Father’s Day
Dear Ones: Happy Father’s Day to all you wonderful Dads out there. It is such an important job! And also a special remembrance to all the Dads who have transitioned over but are still keeping watch from the other side, my dear David v’sholom, included. Let me say that...
Mother for Life
Dear Ones: A message on my cell phone. “R U home?” I had seen it before. Out of the blue, without warning, “Mom” is pressed into service again. What does it matter that the “child” who is texting will be 36 on his next birthday. When a guy needs his “Mom” she has to...
The Rest of Yesterday’s Stories
Yesterday’s Story Dear Ones:I have spent a life-time, ok, 65 years, trying to integrate all my various parts into one complete life…and it hasn’t been easy. I am a woman, someone’s daughter, granddaugter, sister, aunt and niece. I am a rabbi, an interfaith minister...
I’m Back
Tuesday morning, December 27, 2011…From the Lab: I am back. Actually I haven’t been gone from here or Hashem’s House, or the Ranch at all, except for a few trips to NYC…once to bury my dear step-father Paul, twice to try and save an institution from itself (which I...
Winter Solstice Gong Concert-Yoga Yoga, Austin, TX
To my Holy Maggidic Brothers and Sisters and all others who enter with Peace and Love in their hearts: Last night I attended a yoga gong concert at Yoga Yoga in Austin. My Auyvedic Astrology Teacher, Mehtab Benson (check out his books), was the leader. When I arrived...
Are you spiritual?
Dear Ones: Just for the sake of argument, let me assure you that we live in two worlds. One is the material world of what is visible to us. The other, the one of astral light, is invisible, but none the less, here. It is the one of spirit. So, if someone says to you,...
So Many Singing Bowls
Dear Ones: Yesterday I celebrated the Dalai Lama’s birthday by attending the Tibetan Singing Bowls Peace-In at the Texas State Capital Building. Ten Thousand Villages staged the event in the Auditorium Outdoor Rotunda. I sat in the second rung just above the main...
Trees and People
Dear Ones: A quote came across FB this morning: People can inspire you or drain you. Pick wisely. It was juxtaposed against the picture of a tree. While it was a rather simplistic tree representation I immediately saw it as a fruit bearing tree, my mind going to the...
Pema Chodron
Dear Ones: I received helpful information from a variety of sources. This piece, which has become quite timely for me, arrived in an email from Heart Advice, Weekly Quotes from Pema Chodron. I had barely had time to read and digest it when I had occasion to put the...
My Angel Number
Dear Ones: Do you have an angel number? I do. Actually, I have always seen it as a G-d number but recently my cousin, Sage, told me it was my angel number, meaning that when it shows up I should know that my angels, my guardians, are about. I like that. G-d, Angels,...
I Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up If I Tried
Dear Ones: A couple of months ago, before I left for Ireland, someone I had known and trusted for many years, accused me of making things up. I was disappointed in this person who is no longer in my “circle” and now I realize my disappointment had to do more with the...
We Won!
Dear Ones: We won! My incredible AIR Austin Rally team put together this new, improved, accessible website and we took third place in the advanced division. In a couple of days you will be able to go to the page off the homepage about the team and find more details....
Yoga
L’CHAYIM: TO YOUR HEALTH (For those of you who do not speak Yiddish or Hebrew I will translate.) L’Chayim mean “to life…” so it can also mean “to your health! And that’s what this blog will be. Inspirational, informational bits to help us all stay on a more...
I Am Back
Just when you thought it was safe to come back to Hashem’s House, it is. And I am back and I am blogging once again. Actually I am here in Austin at New Horizons, a computer training facility, with my web design team. At 5 pm we will hand in the revised and great...
Happy New Year 2012
Rabbi Raine: Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2012 12:52 PM Sunday, January 1, 2012: Please come home…find the place where your feet know where to walk, and follow your own trail home… Please come home into your own body, your own vessel, your own earth. Please come home...
