Keywords: atheist, candle, Chinese, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Tree, Ezekiel, Gracia Nasi Mendes, Greek, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Ida Nudel, James Joyce, Judah Maccabee, KGB, LA Times, Maccabees, Maoist, miracles, Moses Montefiore, Olympus, Pope Paul IV, sports, Theodor Herzl, Vatican, Zion
Vayechi – One Blessing Doesn’t Fit All
December 18, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
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
Vayigash – Why the Whole World is Jewish
December 11, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords: Canaan, difference, Egypt, Franz Rosenzweig, global, Gypsy, Herman Cohen Joseph, language, Rabbi Sacks, synagogue, teach, The Music Man, tree, tribal, universal, virtue
Miketz – Lies That Look Like Truths, Truths That Look Like Lies
December 4, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
Keywords: Arab Nations, Avi Shafran, Benjamin, Dan Meridor, Greece, Iran, Jordan, Joseph, lies, Manhattan, Moshe Ya'alon, Muslim, nuclear, Potiphar, Syria, truth, Turkey, WikiLeaks
November
Vayeshev – When God is Silent
November 27, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
Keywords: abscence, David Brenner, faith, Jacob, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph, mosquitoes, Pharoah, pit, Potiphar, Sherlock Holmes, silence, Silver Blaze, trust
Vayishlach – Rebecca’s Secret of Life
November 20, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
Keywords: Alon-bachut, Billy Wilder, Canan, Deborah, El Bethel, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Isaac, Jacob, Laban, movies, poet, Rebekah, Robert Browning, Thanksgiving, Victorian, wet-nurse
Noach – A Shabbat Story with Music, Laughter, and Challah
October 9, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
Keywords: Abraham, August 5, Chile, Joni Barrios, Luis Urzua, Mario Gomez, mine, miners, miracle, October 13, potter, Rabbi Yonatan, Ramban, Richard Leider, San Jose
Keywords: Arthur Hertzberg, Ecclesiastes, Emerson, Hillel, Isaiah Berlin, Kohelet, Mordecai, Kaplan, path, secrets, senior sermon, Shamai, teacher, truth
Yom Kippur – Shadows
September 18, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
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
Kol Nidre – Being Used
September 17, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
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
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
May
Beha’alotcha – A White House Visit
May 29, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
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
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
April
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim – Unity for Israel
April 24, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords: acceptance, Aramains, Ethiopians, friends, Haftorah, Jesus, light, Mohammed, Muslim, orphanage, Philistines, Rick Warren, Robert Frost, Talmud, Theodor Herzl, Yom Ha'atzmaut
Tazria-Metzora – Religion and Morality
April 17, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
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
Schmini – Feit Saturday Morning Live: The Past and the Promise
April 10, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
Keywords: Yom Hashoah, Yom Ha atz Maoot, shoah, David, Solomon, Israel, Balfor Declaration, Anne Frank, Omair, redemption, destiny, covenant
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
March
Pesach I – Passover – The Lessons of Life
March 30, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi David Wolpe
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
Tzav – Report From the AIPAC Convention
March 27, 2010
Rabbi David Wolpe
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
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