Rabbi Emma Gottlieb (she/her)
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Rabbi Emma Gottlieb (she/her)
@rabbiemma.bsky.social
Human. Friend. Daughter. Sister. Dog-mom. Tante. Canadian. Nerdy Jew.

Achieved notoriety as the first female rabbi to work full time in Cape Town, South Africa.

Torah. Life. Prayer. Justice. Music. Dogs. LEGO.

www.rabbiemmagottlieb.com
I mean. What the actual.
March 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
That might have been the best tribal council ever. Can’t wait to hear your take on it!
March 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
How can we ensure that life is valued and protected in our communities, our country and throughout our fragile world? #parashapoetryproject #sacredwriting #5785goals #mishpatim #chooselife #prochoice
February 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I am proud to be part of a people that values life so highly that we cling to hope even when it should have been long lost. I fear deeply for a world in which less and less of our leaders seem to value life at all - other than their own. (Continued in next comment)
February 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Heartbreaking but not surprising 💔
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
How can communities ensure that their leaders have the support they need so that they don’t feel crushed by the weight of leadership? #torahthoughts #parashaponderings with thanks to @steinsaltzcenter app for making daily studies so easy!
February 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How often do we miss the opportunity to educate or to comfort or to show compassion because we are judging from our own place of experience and privilege? Let’s learn from Moses’ mistake here. Let’s do better.
February 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Still others may have been acting from a place of trauma due to previous experiences of food insecurity. And yet Moses gets angry with them. How often do we jump to anger from assumptions? How often do we forget to find out why someone has acted counter to our expectations? (Cont to next comment)
February 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Now can you please build something to replace Facebook and Insta?
February 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Time to get our feet praying again.
February 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Is there something tangible people can do? I’m not in America but I can help spread recommended action items.
February 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We must instead commit to the vision we have for the future and step boldly toward it, even if there is a wide wilderness of uncertainty between here and there.
February 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
How can we embrace the truth of our past and draw strength and learning of it to help us cope with and navigate the current moment? Romanticizing a past we cannot return to does not help us. (Continue to next comment)
February 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
They quickly forget their own desperate cries for redemption from slavery now that they have to take responsibility for their own survival. How true is this in our own lives? In what ways to we rewrite their past to escape the frightening realities or struggles of the present? (Cont to next comment)
February 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
These are the words we sing as we attain freedom - an acknowledgment that with it, comes the responsibility to accept our potential, and to use our freedom to sustain and not destroy. #chooselife
February 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We are taught that we are created in Gods image, which means we too have the potential to be life-sustaining (like breath) or life-destroying.

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February 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM