Sinai Temple - Sermons 2010

drash –Rabbi Emeritus Zvi Dershowitz

Vayechi – One Blessing Doesn't Fit All

keywords: blessing, difference, different, Ephraim, Esau, Henry James, Henry Kissinger, Jacob, Joseph, Mark Twain, Menasha, Moses, music, rain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rav Kook, same, tefillin

December 18, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Vayigash – Why the Whole World is Jewish

keywords: Canaan, difference, Egypt, Franz Rosenzweig, global, Gypsy, Herman Cohen Joseph, language, Rabbi Sacks, synagogue, teach, The Music Man, tree, tribal, universal, virtue

December 11, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Miketz – Lies That Look Like Truths, Truths That Look Like Lies

keywords: Arab Nations, Avi Shafran, Benjamin, Dan Meridor, Greece, Iran, Jordan, Joseph, lies, Manhattan, Moshe Ya'alon, Muslim, nuclear, Potiphar, Syria, truth, Turkey, WikiLeaks

December 04, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

November

Vayeshev – When God is Silent

keywords: abscence, David Brenner, faith, Jacob, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph, mosquitoes, Pharoah, pit, Potiphar, Sherlock Holmes, silence, Silver Blaze, trust

November 27, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Vayishlach – Rebecca's Secret of Life

keywords: Alon-bachut, Billy Wilder, Canan, Deborah, El Bethel, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Isaac, Jacob, Laban, movies, poet, Rebekah, Robert Browning, Thanksgiving, Victorian, wet-nurse

November 20, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Vayetzei – When You Wish Upon a Star

keywords: birthday, bridge, faith, holiness, Jacob, Jaffa, Rome, star, Trevi Fountain, wish, wishing, zodiac

November 13, 2010

Rabbi Nicole Guzik

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Toldot – Call Me Essau

keywords: Abraham, action. birthright, deception, deceptive, deciever, Esau, face, image, intention, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, King Lear, Leah, Moses, Potiphar, Rabbi Haim Sabato, Rachael, Rebekah

November 06, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

October

Chayei Sara – Abraham, The Non-Visionary

keywords: Abraham, anthropologist, blind, father, future, G.K. Chesterton, Heschel, idols, intangible,Isaac, journalism, material, moon, obituaries, Rabbi Simcha Bunim, Sarah, sun, unseen

October 30, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Vayera – The Knife and the Scalpel

keywords: Abraham,blind,brain, doctors, hat, Isaac, Jacob, knife, surgery, Theodore Reich, Winston Churchill

October 23, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Lech Lechah – Answer Your Call

keywords: average, belly button, challah, loud, Moshe Pipik, question, rabbi, shabbat, Shmuel, sing, story, wife

October 16, 2010

Rabbi Nicole Guzik

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Noach – A Shabbat Story with Music, Laughter, and Challah

keywords: Abraham, August 5, Chile, Joni Barrios, Luis Urzua, Mario Gomez, mine, miners, miracle, October 13, potter, Rabbi Yonatan, Ramban, Richard Leider, San Jose

October 09, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Bereishit – Letting Go, Holding On

keywords: Adam, age, anger, college, creation, Eve, fear, hurt, letting go, love, new, Orange County, parents, Rabbi Judith Hauptman, recreated, resentment, sadness, separate, UCLA, unity, water, wedding

October 02, 2010

Rabbi Nicole Guzik

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

September

Sukkot Day 3 – A Time For Every Purpose

keywords: Arthur Hertzberg, Ecclesiastes, Emerson, Hillel, Isaiah Berlin, Kohelet, Mordecai, Kaplan, path, secrets, senior sermon, Shamai, teacher, truth

September 25, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Yom Kippur – Shadows

keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel, bird, Carl Jung, coffin, cruelty, darkness, death, evil, funeral, George Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, Giving Tree, Ishmael, Jerusalem, Leonardo da Vinci, Moby Dick, Pablo Picasso, Romans, shadow, shadows, Solomon ibn Gabirol, tree, wall, Yavneh

September 18, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Kol Nidre – Being Used

keywords: Abraham, Alfred Dreyfus, Beethoven, chess, connect, connection, David Wolper, Eliyahu Hanovi, games, Hadassah, Hayden, Henrietta Szold , Henry David Thoreau, Mendel Mieczyslaw, Miguel Najdorf, Ralph Waldo Emerson , Socrates, Theodor Herzl, Violet Beauregard, Walden

September 17, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Ha'azinu – Tending the Fire

keywords: 9/11, Bayit, comfort, Jacob, Judah, Louis Brown, memory, Rabbi Miller, UCLA, Westwood

September 11, 2010

Rabbi Nicole Guzik

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Second Day of Rosh Hashanah - What's Love Got to Do With It?

keywords: affection, blessing, bountiful, Christianity, delight, desire, emotion, empathy, enemies, Eskimo, hate, homeostasis, integrety, justice,love, news, peace, Philo, shalom, Shir ha-Shirim, slavery, terrorists, Thomas Oord, violence, well-being, wholeness, yearning

September 10, 2010

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

First Day of Rosh Hashanah - We Are The Witnesses

keywords: 1973 Yom Kippur War, canary, Congo, Darfur, European Union, Falkner, Heshcel, Islam, Israel, Jonah, Kabul, KGB, king, Mel Gibson, Nazis, sentinals, Sinai, Soviets, testify, witness, Zion

September 09, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Erev Rosh Hashanah - Wrestling, Laughing, and Crying with God

keywords: Aaron Zeitlin, argument, crying, Dan Wolf, Elijah, guilt, Isaac, laughing, Moses, Moshe Iserlis, parrot, Robert Frost, wrestling

September 08, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Nitzavim-Vayeilech – Live Higher, Think Deeper

keywords: Abraham, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Elie Wiesel, Emerson, Joshua, live higher, Morris Raphael Cohen, Moses, perform, Ruth, synagogue, think deeper

September 04, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

August

Ki Tavo – Gossip

keywords: daughter, feathers, gossip, Lashone Harah, lymphoma, personal, pillow, rumour, separation, speech, words

August 28, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Ki Teitzi – Should They Build the Islamic Center Near Ground Zero?

keywords: 9/11, America, basement, complexity, Isaiah, Islamic Center, Jefferson, Lincoln, mosque, pluralism, prophet, radio, Robert Frost, Washington

August 21, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Shoftim – How to Be Judgmental

keywords: Abraham, argument, Atlantic Monthly, bribe, humility, Iran, Italy, Jeff Goldberg, judge, judgement, judgemental, judges, Lake Como, opinion, wine

August 14, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Re'eh – Inception: Which World Will You Choose?

keywords: awake, courage, Dr. Montague Ullman, dream, Elul, fall,fear, Inception, life, living, love, Maimonides, movie, now, passion, reality, shofar, sleep, television, wake

August 07, 2010

Rabbi Nicole Guzik

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

July

Eikev – The Secrets of Jewish Survival

keywords: Arabian Nights, children, magic, Maurice Samuel, Mel Gibson, numbers, Phillip Pullman, Scheherazade, secrets, stories, Umberto Eco

July 31, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Vaetchanan – Goodnight Moon

keywords: childhood, darkness, faith, fear, Good Night Moon, hesitation, hope, light, midrash, morning, sleep

July 24, 2010

Rabbi Nicole Guzik

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Devarim – Religious Freedom in a Jewish State

keywords: conflict, Crest, government, Israel, knesset, law, opinion, passion, pluralism, religion, Rotem Bill, Talmud, theocracy, toothpaste, Yeats

July 17, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Matot-Masei – What's So Special About the Land of Israel?

keywords: camp, Camp Ramah, country, exile, Israel, Jerusalem, Mecca, Romans, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, SuperSol, Temple, Uman, Yaffa, Zion

July 10, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Pinchas –The Strength of Women

keywords: Abraham, Adam, Daughters of Zelophehad, Eden, Eve, future, Hagar, Isaac, Ismael, Jacob, Leah, man, men, Moses, Rachel, Rebecca, Rosh Hodesh, Sarah, woman, women

July 03, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

June

Balak – Lehitra’ot-See you again, not goodbye

keywords: Hillel, ignorant, ill-tempered, magnets, Northridge, refrigerator door, secret space, shy, synaggue, uncultured

June 26, 2010

Rabbi Ahud Sela

drash – Rabbi Ahud Sela

Chukat – Why Are You So Moody?

keywords: character, Emerson, landscape, Miriam, mood, moodiness, Moses, Whitman

June 19, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Korach – What We Teach, How We Learn, Why We Sing

keywords: essence, French Revolution, Miriam, Moses, reporter, Reverend Thomas, Tennison, wicked bible, Yeats

June 12, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Sh'lah L'kha – Reflections On My Years at Sinai

keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Akiba, Ayatollah, Bet Shirah, blessing, Caleb, Communist, community, Ellie Wiezel, family, floatilla, Friday Night Live, Gaza, health, Israel, Joshua, leap of action, Miami, milk, naval blockade, Nazi

June 05, 2010

Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei

drash – Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei

May

Beha'alotcha – A White House Visit

keywords: 1492, Anthony Julius, Don Yitzchak Abravanel, Emma Lazarus, England, exile, Ferdinand and Isabella, Independence Mall, Jewish Heratige Month, Memorial Day, miracle, Oliver Cromwell, Rahm Emanuel, Regina Spektor, Robert Pinsky, Sandy Kofax, Spain, statue,The New Colossus, Unknown Soldier, White House

May 29, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Nasso – Wisdom is Easy; Change is Hard

keywords: bad, change, Freud. good. habits, insight, Oprah, rationalization, regret, Samson, Socrates, soul, will, William James, wisdom

May 22, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Bamidbar – How Do You Count?

keywords: Bamidbar, census, count, freedom, give, giving, half shekel, numbers, Rabbi Sachs, Ralph Reznik, shamus, taxes

May 15, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Behar-Bechukotai – A Lesson From My Father

keywords: birthday, dialysis, father, G.K. Chesterton, holiday, Kadish, limitations, limits, love, medical ethics, Mother's Day, Yohr Tzeit

May 08, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Emor – The Divided Self

keywords: argue, As A Driven Leaf, Avid, conflict, divided, doubt, Freud, Israel, Joseph Epstein, Hoshea, Jung, Milton Steinberg, poetry, R.D. Lang, Talmud, The Divided Self, The Red Book, Whitman, Yeats, Yom Kippur

May 01, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

April

Achrei Mot-Kedoshim – Unity for Israel

keywords: acceptance, Aramains, Ethiopians, friends, Haftorah, Jesus, light, Mohammed, Muslim, orphanage, Philistines, Rick Warren, Robert Frost, Talmud, Theodor Herzl, Yom Ha'atzmaut

April 24, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Tazria-Metzora – Religion and Morality

keywords: Carl Becker, classic, dignity, goodness, The Heavenly City Of 18th Century Philosophers, Henry James, Hillel, kindness, Mark Twain, Martha Nussbaum, morality,
Natural Law, Nature, Talmud, Voltaire

April 17, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Schmini – Feit Saturday Morning Live: The Past and the Promise

keywords: Yom Hashoah, Yom Ha atz Maoot, shoah, David, Solomon, Israel, Balfor Declaration, Anne Frank, Omair, redemption, destiny, covenant

April 10, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Pesach 8th Day – Silent Memories

keywords: kaddish, father, memory, memories, remember, shoah, state, Pesach, Europe, forget, holidays, Esther, Seder, Exodus, Joseph Yerushalmi, Zachor, Yad, Vashem, Yizkor

April 06, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Pesach 5th Day – The Secret Story of Passover

keywords: anti-Semitism, blood liable, Chaucer, Damascus, Easter, Elijah, England, Europe, George Washington, Host, India, Israel, Jacob, Jesus, King Faisal, Merchant Of Venice, Muslim, Oliver Cromwell, Palestine, Passover, Rabbi David Hartman, shabbatot, Shakespeare, Shylock, United States, wafer, William of Norwich, Yale

April 03, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

March

Pesach I – Passover - The Lessons of Life

keywords: airports, ancestors, Carl Wallenda, Egypt, Einstein, Flying Wallendas, haggadah, journey, Martin Buber, Moses, Passover, Pharoah, Picasso, Ralph Waldo Emerson, seder, slaves, staff, technology, Thoreau, Walden

March 30, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Tzav – Report From the AIPAC Convention

keywords: AIPAC, Babi Yar, Blackberry, Brad Sherman, Bush, Carter, Christian, containment, Elliot Abram, evil, freedom, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israeli government, Nixon, non-orthodox, Obama, Passover, perspective, pundits, Senator Schumer, Steven M. Cohen, threats, Ukraine, Washington

March 27, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Vayikra – Israel and America: The Torah's View

keywords: AIPAC, America, angry, Facebook, Iran, Israeli government, leader, newspaper, opinion, public policy, reaction, sacrafice, Solomon, technology, television, think, thought, Vayikra

March 20, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Guest Speaker: Danny Danon

Vayakhel-Pekudei – Are We Commanded to Care?

keywords: America, California, care, caring committees, donations, donkey, faith, giving, Good Samaritan, Hassidic Master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, Laurie Levenson, law, Midean, Moses, palendrome, paralyzed, Pesach, suffering, Supreme Court, values, wine

March 13, 2010

Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei

drash – Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei

Ki Tisa – The Secret Sin of the Golden Calf

keywords: attention, Burning Bush, George Bernard Shaw, Golden Calf, impatience, information, Katherine Hepburn, Malcom Gladwell, Midian, Moses, nature, Philadelphia Story, speed dating, technology, Torah, trust, wisdom

March 06, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

February

Tetzavah – Joy to the World

keywords: amalek, celebration, comedy, Dave Barry, joy, justice, laughter, Maurice, Samuel, Megillah, pain, purim, rememberance, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Shabbat Zakhor, Talmud, Yitzchak

February 27, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Terumah – What Do You Carry in Your Ark?

keywords: Alan Paton, Arc Of The Covenant, broken, Cillford Odets, fragments, grandfather, heart, Hemingway, pain, Rabbi Alexandre, tablets, Vaudeville, Wilder, wounded

February 20, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi David Wolpe

Mishpatim – How Less is Often More

keywords: census, comics, Shabbat Shekelim, shekel, sisterhood, talents, Wonder Woman

February 13, 2010

Sisterhood Shabatton - Rabbi Nicole Guzik

drash – Rosa Berman Ruder

FNL Sermon – The Definition of Love

keywords: H.G. Wells, love, pain, Rebecca West, soul, Taxi, Valentine's Day, women

February 12, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Yitro – Are We Commanded to Believe?

keywords: ambition, belief, commandment, covet, history, interpretation, language, mitzvah, nature, Sinai, soul, worship

February 06, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

January

B'shalah – The Nature of Beauty and the Beauty of Nature

keywords: Auschwitz, Avatar, Haiti, idolatry, Israelites, mistake, Moshe Greenberg, natural forces, nature, pantheist, Stars, stone, tree of life, Tu B'Shvat, wood, worship, Yehezkel Kaufmann

January 30, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Nicole Guzik

Bo – For My Daughter

keywords: ages, Bat Mitzvah, child, Jeremiah, parents, Plague Of Darkness, pneumonia, Samara, Torah, watch, watching

January 23, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

drash – Rabbi Brian Schuldenfrei

Vaera – Is the Haitian Earthquake a Plague from God?

keywords: Derek Parfit, Miep Gies, Anne Frank, Haiti, earthquake, tsunami, Pat Robertson, donate, Abraham Joshua Heschel

January 16, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Shemot – Martin Luther King Special Service: Call Me By My Name

keywords: miracle, liberate, Moses, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, 1955, boycott, Coretta Scott King, Alabama, bus, slaves

January 09, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

Vayechi – Our Task in the Secular New Year

keywords: Amos Funkenstein, time, New Year's, Jacob / Yakov, blessing, resolutions, William James

January 02, 2010

Rabbi David Wolpe

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