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Noach – Noah and the Tower – A Message for 2020
Keywords: Babel; Bezalel; character; childhood; class; David Brenner; difference; diversity; Howard Gardner; idolatry; Ikea; intelligence; Noah; Ovadia ben Jacob Sforno; radio; skills; tower; wisdom
Shmini Atseret – Answering the Sin of the Spies
Keywords: Caleb; hadar; healing; Joshua; loss; pandemic; shemini atzeret; sins; spies; sukkot; tikkun; wound; yizkor
Sukkot II – Return To The Land
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Keywords: Bessel van der Kolk; covering; emotion; historical; joy; mikveh; Pesach; PTSD; shade; sukkah; sukkot; tents; trauma
Yom Kippur – The Dreams Of Others
Keywords: children; dreams; empty; Joseph; Philadelphia; sanctuary; Shema; synagogue; Wolpa; WWII; Yizkor
Kol Nidre – Soft And Strong: A Different Way To Be
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Keywords: Antonin Scalia; discrimination; funeral; John Lewis; justice; lessons; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Supreme Court; United States
1st Day of Rosh Hashanah – The Battlefront
Keywords: ahavat yisrael; Commandments; decency; decision; Edwin Markham; Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler; Ha-Yom Harat Olam; Immanuel Kant; love; Napoleon; negativity; politics; Rabbi Israel Salanter; Rav Dessler; respect; Rudyard Kipling; Sidney Morgenbesser;Yom HaDin; Yom Teruah
Erev Rosh Hashanah – Number Our Days
Keywords: 2020; estrangement; John Burrows; King Lear; pain; poem; Professor Zucker; Psalm; The Birdsong; Theresienstadt
Nitzavim-Vayeilech – Lockdown Lessons
Keywords: cage; captivity; creativity; gorilla; internet; lockdown; memory; pandemic; stories; universality; Zoom