Rabbi Benjamin Resnick
Rabbi Benjamin Resnick is the spiritual leader of the Pelham Jewish Center. Before that he served as Rav Beit HaSefer at Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago and as rabbi and education director at Congregation Ahavas Achim in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Rabbi Resnick was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2014.
Articles by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick
How Hasidic Wisdom Can Change Your Relationship to the Natural World
Hasidic wisdom offers an alternative to the dominant Jewish paradigm which places human needs at the center of our relationship with the earth and its creatures.
The Possibilities — and the Rigors — of Old Age
Our tradition holds space for self-actualization in late life without sugarcoating our inevitable decline. Both are sacred.
How Forgiveness Can Be Restorative
Should punishment take precedence over working toward peace — or is it the other way around?
Aninut: Between Death and Burial
Judaism bestows a special status on a person whose grief is so fresh it’s all consuming.
What Judaism Says About Reincarnation
The notion that souls can be reborn after death figures prominently in Jewish mysticism.