Sermons

Keywords: Ahab; Albert_Einstein; Brooklyn; candle; Danny_Gordis; David_Bowie; Elijah; fire; Greeks; Jacob; little_league; Mike_Garson; nefesh; Oklahoma; pianist; ruach; soul; special_needs; spirit; t-shirt; Valley Beth_Shalom; West_Hills; Wolsey_Fire

Keywords: America; anti-Semitism; Barry Weiss; caravan; democrat; gun; hate; immigration; Max Webb; Pittsburgh; politics; prejudice; president; republican; responsibility; sermon; shooting; singing; Stanley Crouch; stranger; synagogue; Trump; Yitz Greenberg

Keywords: Abraham; Abraham Joshua Heschel; beauty; Dodgers; iconoclast; idols; Isaac; love; Maimonides; moon; morality; Moses; Noah; numbers; numerology; pain; philosopher; philosophy; Rambam; rebellious; sports; sun; tragedy; wonder

Keywords: Abraham; Ambassador; broken windows; Chiune Sugihara; chopsticks; culture; Dutch; food; James Q. Wilson; Japan; Lithuania; lunch; meal; Nazi; New York; righteous gentiles; Sempo Sugihara; The Banality Of Good; Tokyo; translator; visa; Zen

Keywords: accusations; aggression; apology; Brett Kavanaugh; children; Christine Blasey Ford; compassionate; dangerous; elevator; emotional; empathy; genetics; harassment; Ken Bruen; listen; lock; men; mother; rap music; sexual; stereotype; Tyler Cowen; unafraid; violence; vulnerable; walk; women

Keywords: Anwar Sadat; build; Egypt; huts; Menachem Begin; Pithom; pyramids; Ramses; Shemini Atzeret; sukkah; Tzedakah; Yizkor

Keywords: age; autumn; clouds; eternity; Judah Loew ben Bezalel; Kohelet; Los Angeles; Maharal of Prague; manna; New York; rebuild; renew; repair; seasons; sukkah; water

Keywords: again; Deuteronomy; euthanasia; once; Rebecca; sermon; Terri Schiavo; topic; Vladimir Nabokov

Keywords: 1977; anger; argumentation; art; Art Of Rivalry; blessing; Cold War; condemn; condemnation; cruel; David Weiss Halivni; destroy; Edgar Degas; Edouard Manet; Eliezer Ben Padat; Francis Bacon; Henri Matisse; humiliated; Jackson Pollock; Johnny Carson; King And I; Lucian Freud; morality; Pablo Picasso; Rabbi Yochanan; Resh Lakish; Saul Lieberman; schadenfreude; Sebastian Smee; social media; society; Soviet Union; warning shot; wedding; Willem de Kooning; Yakov Smirnoff

Keywords: Isaac Klein; John Keats; longevity; Methuselah; Moses; Nachman of Breslov; poet; prayer; T.S. Elliot; time; William James; years; Yom Kippur

Keywords: Andalusia; Aristotle; Belarus; bombing; Casablanca; Cochin; Cordoba; Dalai Lama; Fez; graves; Greece; Hellenism; India; India; Islam; Istanbul; Italy; Izmir; Jerusalem; Joseph Soloveitchik; Karakoy; loss; Maimonides; Marrakesh; Myanmar; Morocco; museum; Muslim; poets; priests; Seville; Sienna; Spain; Thessalonica; Tiberius; tourism; Turkey

Keywords: cancer; change; die; India; life; Lily Tomlin; literally; live; love; Maimonides; Mary Oliver; monk; next; podcast; sermons; soul; surgery; Thailand; travelled; what if

Keywords: basketball; conversation; discomfort; practice; pray; prayer; relationship; Rosh Hashanah; signs; stretching; talk; thoughts

Keywords: Edinburgh; Hugh MacDiarmid; lost boys; mail; monuments; past; poem; poet; rebuild; rebuilding; Robert Burns; ruin; ruins; Scotland; stones; Thailand

Keywords: Catholic; celibacy; character; desire; education; Harrisburg; Hollywood; human; Ireland; kindness; Mark Twain; Moses; Nebuchadnezzar; obituary; openness; pedophile; Pennsylvania; perfection; rape; sex; soldier; soul; war; worship; Yom Kippur

Keywords: Amos Tversky; bank teller; Ben Yagoda; bias; bribe; cognitive; con; confirmation bias; Daniel Kahneman; feminist; finance; gambling; Ikea; Jessica; mind; philosophy; politics; psychology; Solomon; thinking; wise

Keywords: AIPAC; atheist; Basic Law; Bret Stephens; conservative; conference; Dan Bahat; Daniel Gordis; Druze; Einat Wilf; Gaza; Gush Etzion; hearts; IDF; Ireland; Israel; Jonah; Naftali Bennett; Nineveh; politics; rabbinate; reform; Robinson's Arch; Saudi Arabia; secular; settlements; Song Of Songs; soul; Tamar Appelbaum; William Butler Yeats

Keywords: Canaan; food; godliness; Golden Calf; hardship; hope; humility; jazz; manna; memory; Moses; piano; sunburn; tablets; test; tuba; water; wilderness

Keywords: afraid; back brace; Brooklyn Bridge; destruction; E. E. Cummings; Fiddler On The Roof; gifts; Golde; Golden Gate Bridge; hope; loss; love; maidens; Nachman of Breslov; San Francisco; Tevye

Keywords: 1881; 1886; 1889; Aramaic; Buddhist; Cambodia; China; communism; culture; Dalai Lama; Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; English; exile; Ezekiel; Greek; Hanoi; Hebrew; Ho Chi Minh; India; land; language; Laos; Lewis Glinert; Myanmar; monks; Morocco; Rolls Royce; scripture; Septuagint; Talmud; Targum; temple; Theodor Hertzel; Thailand; Tibet; Tisha B'Av; Toledo; Vietnam; Yiddish; Zionist

Keywords: affirmation; aspiration; California; city; country; Dalai Lama; Dharamsala; food; group; grudges; hatred; India; individual; journeys; lie; love; memory; opposition; pride; restaurant; spicy; Tibet; Tisha B'Av; travel; tribal; tribes

Keywords: Cochin; copper plates; democracy; dictator; Dorothy Gale; Farsi; goodness; grateful; Happy Cow; Hebrew; hospitality; India; kindness; Kochi; language; language; law; Medianite; monuments; Myanmar; New Delhi; oxen; peaceful; Pinchas; Quentin Tarantino; restaurant; rule of law; security; sleeping; Spain; stranger; United States; USA; Vietnam; violence

Keywords: aunt; basketball; beggar; Bernie Siegel; blind; book club; bread; cancer; charity; Charles Krauthammer; Down syndrome; faith; idol; Jerusalem; KEEN; meat; mourn; mourning; palsy; Rabbi Joshua; Roz Goldstine; shehechiyanu; tallit; taxi; Tisha b'Av; uncle; wedding; wine

Keywords: aspirations; beach; Bill Young; breathing; coast; construction; dreams; drift; float; goal; goals; growing; Monday; Nathaniel Hawthorne; pool; river; Sidney Greenberg; summertime; swim; swimming

Keywords: alcoholism; bipolar; celebrity; depression; Elijah; fame; grief; Hannah; healing; hospital; Jerusalem Post; Jessica Evans; Jezebel; loneliness; mental illness; money; Nachman of Breslov; ritual; shame; sleep; stigma; success; suffering; surgery

Keywords: change; cheerleader; community; conversation; convert; creation; different; Elijah; Farsi; feelings; hearing; J Street; lesson; Maimonides; marriage; men; Mort Klein; quiet; rules; school; standards; Swedish; tower; tradition; Wolpe; women; Yiddish; “you do you”

Keywords: 405; bush; clothes; cloud; danger; earthquake; failure; fire; flames; genius; Los Angeles; manna; meat; mudslide; New York; ocean; plagues; Sinai; slave; terrifying; tree; unsettling; wilderness

Keywords: Afghanistan; Air Force; America; Coast Guard; Daniel Agami; fast; Florida; freedom; hair; Iraq; Marc Gellman; meditation; Memorial Day; Nathan Bruckenthal; nazir; prayer; physical; retreats; Rosaline Schultz; soldiers; Solomon; spiritual; summer vacation; survey; swimming pool; wine

Keywords: art; bitterness; Disneyland; Dodgers; FaceBook; history; imagination; inspiration; justice; Los Angeles; Our Space; parents; Philadelphia; quadriplegic; soul; Valley Beth Shalom

Keywords: accounting; app; budget; count; dispute; list; money; non-profit; policy; prayers; president; priests; soldiers; teachings; tools

Keywords: Mother's Day

Keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel; Beau Biden; count; countdown; doctors; Edible Arrangements; e-mail; fruit basket; Greece; IsraAID; Joe Biden; Lesbos; melava malka; Mother's Day; omer; Passover; Promise Me, Dad; refugee; shabbot; shavuot; shiva; Syria; Yotam Polizer

Keywords: adult; America; beach; Canaan; Craig Taubman; drama; Egypt; family; holy; meaning; moral; Rabbi Edward Feinstein; sand; spiritual; technology; teenagers; Walgreens; work; world

Keywords: antibiotics; Bar Mitzvah; cult; dermatologist; disease; doctors; Egypt; eternity; family; Hallelujah; help; impure; last war; leprosy; lesson; Lily Small; military school; pray; priests; relationship; religion; science; shiva; skin; slaves; sore; time; Time In A Bottle; timelessness

Keywords: 70; army; basketball; Belarus; Chaim Weizmann; commemorate; David Ben-Gurion; faces; IDF; interpretations; Israel; kotel; Max Bernstein; Michael Halpern; Michael Levin; millennials; Morris Katz; Odessa; Palestine; Plonsk; Racing Against History; Rick Richman; scar; seventy; Shiran Zeri; soldiers; Tal Brody; Vladimir Jabotinsky; Yom HaShoah; Yom Hazikaron

Keywords: carob; Choni; death; flowers; fruit; garden; gardening; life; memory; mortality; movies; nature; tree

Keywords: 1939; 1959; 1985; America; Auschwitz; Birkenau; Clara Bruno; Communism; corn; Havana; Iran; kosher; March Of The Living; memory; Miami; Nazi; Pakistan; Passover; Poland; Sol Liber; Sheila Nazarian; story; Treblinka; Warsaw Ghetto

Keywords: Amazon; apathy; ask; boots; Camp Ramah; changes; curiosity; Dear Abby; dissatisfaction; Edgar Bronfman; Exodus; free speech; imagination; insight; learning ; liberation; Maimonides; meaningful; Ojai; question; rain; rainbow; raincoat; Seagram; Shimon Peres; singing

Keywords: ambition; college; covet; Egypt; envy; grace; green; healing; infertility; Jerusalem; job; music; oppression; prayer; sacrifice; school; want

Keywords: 1941; AIPAC; bi-partisan; Chaim Herzog; Christian; Cindy Montanez; democrat; earthquake; IDF; IsraAID; Israel; J.P. Foster; Jerusalem; Mexico City; Nazi; Poland; republican; Ryan Holloway; security; senator; SS; students; Syria

Keywords: apples; chance; costume; ears; Esther; fate; Haman; hamentashen; Harold Kushner; honey; lots; lottery; luck; mezuzah; Mordechai; oznei Haman; plot; polio; Purim; salt; summer; superstitious; tzedakah; When Bad Things Happen To Good People

Keywords: Aaron; chair; clothes; Douglass Family; frontlet; high school; innovation lab; jeans; kindness; Kodesh L'Adonai; lunch; pendant; school; sea urchin; sing; slave; smile; songs; tabernacle

Keywords: adventure; bush; community; courage; excuses; failure; fire; George Washington; give; honey; humility; Isaiah Berlin; job; John Quincy Adams; Jonathan Sacks; leader; milk; mistakes; nasi; Numbers; president; President's Day; prince; righteousness; risk; Ronald Regan; sanctuary; shepherd; shoes; tabernacle; take; wisdom

Keywords: Ari Sacher; bombs; books; bracelet; bullets; Catherine The Great; covet; desire; faith; Group M; Ibn Ezra; investment; knowledge; mind; Nathan Diderot; necessity; necklace; need; New York Times; peasant; Philadelphia; philosophy; pilot; princess; Rob Norman; robe; Rolling Stones; shoes; smartphone; sweatshirt; technology; thought; want; war; wedding; Zohar

Keywords: book; Candy Lightner; dreams; Egypt; Exodus; Gary Keller; Gavriel Iddan; greatness; J. K. Rowling; Keller Williams; Kobe Grunwald; living big; miracle; real estate; realistic; sedentary; Solomon Grunwald; Thomas Henry Huxley; What's Your One Thing; Whitney Grunwald; zohar

Keywords: Anne Sullivan; blind; care; college; darkness; deaf; depression; doctor; Egyptians; Kalman Samuels; Malka; paramedics; plague; Shalva; supermom; table; teacher; twins

Keywords: aggressive; anguish; bride; deaf; Dr. King; emotions; food; headphones; hear; intention; gems; leader; leadership; listen; museum; passive; Pharaoh; plagues; science; sign language; sin

Keywords: 76ers; aphasic; basketball; Boa constrictor; boldness; boy; brave; California; cerebral hemorrhage; coffee; dusted; electric blanket; engaged; father; funeral; haircut; Hal Greer; kaddish; language; manager; Mark Gerson; mother; NYU; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Rebbetzin; shoes; sports; unbelievable