Soulful Notes, Lit Each Week

Rabbi Ze'ev Smason spent nearly a quarter century in the pulpit at Nusach Hari B'nai Zion Congregation in St. Louis before retiring in 2022. He writes Spiritual Sparks every week because the small moments keep turning out to be the big ones, and someone ought to say so out loud. He lives in St. Louis with his wife Chani, and his loyalties go: Dodgers first, Cardinals second, and whoever's playing the Cubs third.