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Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot – “Koufax and the American Jewish Dream”

Rabbi David Wolpe | October 3, 2015

Keywords: 1965, athletes, baseball, Bernie Sanders, country club, Don Drysdale, Elliot Cosgrove, insecure, Joseph Lieberman, Kennedy, October 6, pitcher, Sandy Kofax, Shawn Green, social progress, socialist, Solomon Schechter, sports, Vice President, World Series, Yom Kippur

Ha’Azinu – How We Grow

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 26, 2015

Keywords: action, bunching, celebrate, E. M. Forster, holidays, Isaac Stern, joy, lessons, Moses, nostalgia, pain, planning, psychiatry, psychology, Rachael, search, self-examination, , self-expression, Shlomo, sin, sing, Solomon, suffer, Sukkot, therapy, wisdom, Yom Kippur

Kol Nidre – Forgiveness

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 22, 2015

Keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel, ashamed, Atlanta, bioethics, brother, Calvin Coolidge, candle, Edith Piaf, elevator, flawed, forgive, forgiven, forgiveness, guilty, health, hotel, IRS, mistakes, morality, Navy SEAL, peace, Pentagon, regret, Rembrandt, repent, Sherlock Holmes, sin, sweetness, Yom Kippur

2nd Day of Rosh Hashanah – What We Treasure About Our Tradition

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 15, 2015

Keywords: American Jewish University, apologize, bless, Bradley Artson, bread, Camp Ramah, candle, chosen, Christopher Hitchens, Communists, community, David Gordis, Elie Wiesel, extinction, Fear No Evil, grunts, humor, Jacob Artson, Jonah, Kol Nidre pledge, Lincoln, Natan Sharansky, offering, particularism, Pascal, psychoanalyze, question, Rashi, responsibility, ritual, sacrifice, Sam Harris, Samara Wolpe, Simon Greenberg, slaves, solidarity, Soviet Union

1st Day of Rosh Hashanah – Ahavath Yisrael – Loving Israel

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 14, 2015

Keywords: argument, Belgrade, calf, Christian, David, Ezekiel, government, indignation, Irving Goldberg, Isaiah, Jeremiah, land, Lincoln, love, mountains, Muslim, peace, Rabbi Akiva, self-criticism, Sinai, state, strength, testify, traitor, United Nations, Vuk Jeremic, wilderness, words, Zion

Erev Rosh Hashanah – What You Get When You Give

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 13, 2015

Keywords: Adam Grant, axe, camping, CEO, corporate, deeds, fire, Give And Take, givers, giving, James Hodgeson, John Locke, kindness, litvak, lumberjack, matchers, mitzvah, monastery, Mrs. Woodberry, Salt Lake City, Sherlock Holmes, takers, Utah, Watson, wood, words

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