Sermons

Keywords: Abraham; flood; Jacob; Lech-Lecha; Moses; Ohr HaChaim; potential; Tower of Babel

Keywords: “Bird by Bird”; Abraham; Anne Lamott; chaos; drunk; Edinburgh, Scotland; Judaism; Modeh Ani; Noah; order; seder; Shema; shiva; Sidur; spiritual spine; Tohu va-Vohu

Keywords: Bratzlav Chair; chair; Charles Dickens; David; discard; Edwin Drood; Jonathan; Kohelet – Ecclesiastes; Rabbi Herschel Leibowitz; Reb Nachman of Bratslav; Saul; Shemini Atzeret; Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, R. A. ; The Empty Chair; Ukraine; Vincent van Gogh; Yizkor

Keywords: community; individual; Mitzvah; prayer; Rabbi Leona Medina; yearning

Keywords: ancestors; booth; building; forgiven; joyous; nature; Pesach; Rabbi Sam Rotenberg; Shalosh Regalim; Shavuot; Sukkot; temporary; The Three Holidays; The Three Legs; Yom Kippur

Keywords: David; Eden Nuedell; Guardian Angel; Haazinu; Ida Yakovlevna Nudel; Moses; poem; poetry; Prisoners of Zion; Song of the Sea

Keywords: Afterlife; J. B. S. Haldane; Vladimir Nabokov; Thermodynamics; soul; Mark Twain; Frank Jackson; Chofetz Chaim; Rabbi Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan; Kaddish; Philadelphia; Death and Dying; Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits; Y. M. Tuckachinsky; Rabbi Maurice Lamm; The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning; fall korim

Keywords: Amy Summerville; Aron Kodesh; broken tablets; Édith Piaf; Exodus; Great Expectations; guilt; Irv Fox; Jackie Mason; Maimonides; Miss Havisham; Moses; Old Age Home; regret; Tikkun; Yom Kippur

Keywords: 9/11; Dirge Without Music; Edna St. Vincent Milla; future; Moses; Pledge of Allegiance; Ramban Machmanides; Shabbat Shuvah; Sinai; Torah; Vayelech 31:22

Keywords: Alan Paton; anti-Semitism; Athens; categories; Don Pacifico; groups; Harold Nickelson; Havdalah; Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; Hitler; identity; land of division; Malachi the Prophet; prejudice; principle; Rabbi Akiva; Self-differentiation; Shylock; similarity; slavery; Star Trek; William Shakespeare