Congregation Emanu El

This is the time of year when parking lots fill with minivans, trunks with duffel bags and pillows, and kids who can barely contain their excitement—and their nerves—as they head off to camp.

Rabbi Pam Silk explores the “grasshopper feeling” of standing at a new threshold — whether it’s sleepaway camp, retirement, an empty nest, or learning to live after loss. What does it mean to meet that moment with a ruach acheret, a “different spirit,” like Caleb and Joshua?

Watch and join us in asking: when we look at the land ahead, can we say, “The land is good, and I am capable of meeting it”?

Pride is a Jewish value.