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Shmini Atzeret: Rabbi Judah’s Last Wishes
Keywords: biographies, coffin, death, dust, family, Genesis, instructions, Judah the Prince, legacy, mishna, shrouds, strife, Talmud, wealthy, widow, will, Yehudah HaNasi, Yizkor
Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot – “Koufax and the American Jewish Dream”
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
First Day of Sukkot: A Holiday Human and Divine
Keywords: build, celebrate, clouds, clouds of glory, forgiven, holiday, human, manna, miracles, Miriam’s well, oneness, Pesach, shade, Shavuot, stars, sukkah, Sukkot, supernatural, water, wilderness, windows
Ha’Azinu – How We Grow
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
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
Vayeilech – Destinations
Keywords: anticipation, art, baby, child, chuva, college, daughter, destination, Hafetz Hayim, high school, Joshua, journey, life, lunch, nest, Pharaoh, Poland, real, repentance, return, toddler, Tony Blair, Yom Kippur
2nd Day of Rosh Hashanah – What We Treasure About Our Tradition
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
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
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
Nitzavim – How to Prepare for Rosh Hashanah
Keywords: angry, change, choose life, chuva, club, cook, cooking, gratitude, holiday, honesty, hurtful, kind, Kirk Douglas, preparation, repentance, Rosh Hashanah, table, tofu, vegetarian, Whole Foods, Yom Kippur