Rabbi Rachel Kobrin
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Rabbi Rachel Kobrin is the Assistant Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim, a vibrant spiritual community in Austin,Texas.  She is the founder of Selah – a soulful South Austin satellite community of CAA, and is on the faculty of the Austin Jewish Academy.  Rachel was selected as a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow with Clal – the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.  She is a contributing author in God: Jewish Choices for Struggling with the Ultimate (2008) and is a regular blogger on myjewishlearning.com.  

Blog Entries by Rabbi Rachel Kobrin

To Our Daughter, On Her 8th Birthday

(0) Comments | Posted April 24, 2012 | 10:35 AM

The following letter is co-authored by Rabbi Rick Brody.

Eight years ago today you blessed us with your entry into this world. After a full day of labor, we got into the car and drove a mile and a half from our home to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. You...

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Purim Revelations

(3) Comments | Posted March 7, 2012 | 12:14 PM

As a child, I looked forward to Purim each year. I spent weeks planning my costume and savored the excitement of the annual carnival and the entertaining Megillah reading at my synagogue. Purim represented pure, unobstructed joy.

It wasn't until I was an adult that I came...

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Tu Bishvat: The Roots Of Torah

(32) Comments | Posted February 7, 2012 | 1:11 PM

"It is a tree of life to those who hold it close and all of its supporters are happy. Its ways are ways of pleasantness and all of its paths lead to peace." --Proverbs 3:18

This was one of the very first Hebrew songs I learned. Even as a young...

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