Daily Nourishment with Israel at War

In the aftermath of Hamas' brutal attack in Israel on Oct. 7, Rabbi Hamilton is sharing a daily letter that speaks to our spirits and our hearts. It offers concrete steps and actions that will bring us together around core questions. You can receive the messages directly in your inbox by signing up here. This is just one of the ways we're bringing our community together to mobilize for the Jewish people and Israel. See KI's other efforts here.
Below, you will find an archive of messages.

Daily Letter 472: How Do You Test Your Assumptions?

Daily Letter 471: What’s Wrong with Pagan Gods?

Daily Letter 470: You Care

Daily Letter 469: As of Now

Daily Letter 468: ‘I Burst Into Tears’

Daily Letter 467: Our Commitments

Daily Letter 466: Tender Light

Daily Letter 465: I Shall Live

Daily Letter 464: A Liberating Moment

Daily Letter 463: Normalizing

Daily Letter 462: Spacious

Daily Letter 461: Searching for Vocabulary

Daily Letter 460: Fast of Firstborn Is So Soon

Daily Letter 459: Four Stories

Daily Letter 458: Expanding Our Conversations

Daily Letter 457: The One-and-A-Half Year Point

Daily Letter 456: In Season

Daily Letter 455: A Serenity Prayer with a Jewish Accent

Daily Letter 454: Psalms

Daily Letter 453: Sweetness

Daily Letter 452: One Little Light

Daily Letter 451: Embracing Our Friends

Daily Letter 450: Nissan

Daily Letter 449: Revealing

Daily Letter 448: Make a Silver Lining

Daily Letter 447: Ritchie Torres

Daily Letter 446: Companionship

Daily Letter 445: A better story than the grim one developing around us

Daily Letter 444: "I Could Never Have Predicted His Reply"

Daily Letter 443: Not Knowing 

Daily Letter 442: "I Don't Care About Being Right"

Daily Letter 441: IDF Humanity

Daily Letter 440: Calling Out or Calling In

Daily Letter 439: What’s New and What’s Old

Daily Letter 438: Action Picks Up Where Shabbat Leaves Off

Daily Letter 437: Right-sizing Your Ideals

Daily Letter 436: From Mourning to Dancing

Daily Letter 435: Making Music with What Remains

Daily Letter 434: Adding Flavor

Daily Letter 433: The Greatest Honor of My Life

Daily Letter 432: This Too Shall Pass

Daily Letter 431: You Cannot Build a True Future from a False Past

Daily Letter 430: Up Close and In Person

Daily Letter 429: Stick With Your Story’s Plot

Daily Letter 428: Too Responsive?

Daily Letter 427: Purim's Not Far Off

Daily Letter 426: Everyday Life

Daily Letter 425: Powerless or Compassionate-Power

Daily Letter 424: Multiple Names

🧡Daily Letter 423: A Flask For Our Tears

🧡Daily Letter 422: Through the Eyes of Ariel Bibas’ 5-Year-Old Best Friend

Daily Letter 421: Life

Daily Letter 420: An Honorable and Merciful Calling

Daily Letter 419: 70

Daily Letter 418: Loss

Daily Letter 417: Heavenly Disapproval

Daily Letter 416: A Beacon

Daily Letter 415: Day 500 at Hostages Square

Daily Letter 414: Basics
 
Daily Letter 413: Shared Hugs

Daily Letter 412: Fruitful

Daily Letter 411: A Faith for the Unaccepting

Daily Letter 410: Actions Can Be More Audible

Daily Letter 409: What You Do Next

Daily Letter 408: Up Ahead

Daily Letter 407: Steady

Daily Letter 406: Nearly 16 Months

Daily Letter 405: Our Sense of Direction

Daily Letter 404: The Holiest Institution

Daily Letter 403: We Love Live This Much

Daily Letter 402: What We're Up Against

Daily Letter 401: How To Tell Your Story

Daily Letter 400: The Land

Daily Letter 399: A New Sweep of Momentum

Daily Letter 398: Birth of Freedom

Daily Letter 397: How We Remember

Daily Letter 396: Back Where They Belong

Daily Letter 395: How You Make Your Decisions

Daily Letter 394: A New Song

Daily Letter 393: Growing Season

Daily Letter 392: 4 Ways

Daily Letter 391: Stay Maladjusted

Daily Letter 390: Today's Task

Daily Letter 389: Promise

Daily Letter 388: Emotional Manipulation

Daily Letter 387: Emotionally Honest

Daily Letter 386: The Outward-turn Points Upward

Daily Letter 385: Habits of the Heart

Daily Letter 384: Harder Days

Daily Letter 383: ‘Because I wasn’t running alone’

Daily Letter 382: Of Good Spirit

Daily Letter 381: Of Good Spirit

Daily Letter 380: 15 Months Too Long
 
 
 
 
 

Daily Letter 343: Repeated Exposure

Daily Letter 342: Jewish Life

Daily Letter 341: Confronting Self-Doubt Pushes Me Forward 

Daily Letter 340: A Battle That Never Stays Won

Daily Letter 339: ‘Nowhere else than the Human Heart’

Daily Letter 338: Cherry-Pick a Moment of Kindness

Daily Letter 337: The Holy and The Vile

Daily Letter 336: ill will

Daily Letter 335: What Would You Have Done?

Daily Letter 334: Typography of Terror

Daily Letter 333: Turning a Reflex Into Action

Daily Letter 332: Be’er Sheva

Daily Letter 331: When Rescue is Scary

Daily Letter 330: Strength for the Weary

Daily Letter 329: Pain Gives Way to Promise

Daily Letter 328: Regions Where Wonder Is Active 

Daily Letter 327: Look to the Covenant

Daily Letter 326: Ideals

Daily Letter 325: Climbing

Daily Letter 324: Enduring Loss

Daily Letter 323:
Dignity Displaces Despair

Daily Letter 322: Love and Life

Daily Letter 321: In Polite Company

Daily Letter 320: The Aspiration Business

Daily Letter 319: Your Commitments

Daily Letter 318: It's The Beginning

Daily Letter 317: Doing Your Best With What You've Got

Daily Letter 316: Above and Beyond

Daily Letter 315: Showing Up

Daily Letter 311: Why No Four Questions?

Daily Letter 310: Goals and Systems

Daily Letter 309: Adding Eases Subtraction

Daily Letter 308: Source of Awe

Daily Letter 307: Our Growth-Rate

Daily Letter 306: Bringing Lessons Forward:

Daily Letter 305: We Remember by Upbuilding

Daily Letter 304: An Eve of October 7 Fast Day

Daily Letter 303: David’s Sling and David’s Lyre

Daily Letter 302: Where This Leads

Daily Letter 301: Why Ongoing Letters

Daily Letter 300: Good Thoughts

Daily Letter 299: Keeping the Plot

Daily Letter 298: Your Storehouse

Daily Letter 297: Simple and Telling

Daily Letter 296: Your Soul Begs For Work

Daily Letter 295: Something To Do Today

Daily Letter 294: Focus

Daily Letter 293: Pivotal Moments

Daily Letter 292: If Only

Daily letter 291: Be a Countervoice

Daily Letter 290: You're Grounded

Daily Letter 289: Doing A Better Job With Your Mistakes

Daily Letter 288: What You Bring Into Your Shelter

Daily Letter 287: Warning and Warming

Daily Letter 286: Anger to Joy

Daily Letter 285: Being Needed

Daily Letter 284: With the grain. Against the grain. 

Daily Letter 283: What's Beautiful in Jewish Life

Daily Letter 282: A Place at Your Table

Daily Letter 281: Notice, Contain, and Then Reverse Course

Daily Letter 280: May Pain Not Be In Vain

Daily Letter 279: A New Season's Psalm

Daily Letter 278: Thank you. Forgive me. Please. 

Daily Letter 277: Take Attendance

Daily Letter 276: Heartbroken

Daily Letter 275: Your Spiritual Journey's ETA

Daily Letter 274: Good Reminders

Daily Letter 273: Sacred Work

Daily Letter 272: If only, it were more complicated 

Daily Letter 271: Troubling

Daily Letter 270: Security

Daily Letter 269: Where Strength Comes From

Daily 268: Daily Prayer

Daily Letter 267: Back Where They Belong

Daily Letter 266: The Good Land

Daily Letter 265: Mentors

Daily Letter 264: Turning Outward

Daily Letter 263: Impossible to Inevitable

Daily Letter 262: Companionship

Daily Letter 261: Israeli Resilience 

Daily Letter 260: What We Know

Daily Letter 259: Weeping at Night

Daily Letter 258: Restarting a Heart

Daily Letter 257: ‘Even when the world didn’t make sense to him, Judaism did’

Daily Letter 256: Responses

Daily Letter 255: Ten Months

Daily Letter 254: Faith

Daily Letter 253: Noticing

Daily Letter 252: Hatikvah at The Olympics