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Sermon Archives
Lech-Lecha : A Place That I Will Show You
Keywords: Abraham, Canaan, direction, Ed Feinstein, footstep, GPS, Israel, Jerusalem, lost, Maggid of Dubno, Or Kastim, parents, reward, Samara, Tel Aviv
Bereshit : Are We Better Than Animals?
Keywords: angels, animals, Cervantes, chag, death, Don Quixote, dust, emptiness, Gerrer Rebbe, gold, nothingness, programmed, questions, uselessness, vanity
Schmini Atzeret : The One Who Remembers
Keywords: Abraham, Geshem prayer, immortality, Isaac, Jacob, Marcel Proust, memory, Moses, remember, William Shakespeare, Yizkor
Bereshit : Is There a Time For Everything?
Keywords: blessing, bodilessness, body, desert, eat, eating, gift, harvest, peach, physical, soul, spirit, sukkot, T.S. Elliot, yom kippur
Yom Kippur : A Distant Glow
Keywords: baseball, car, death, Derek Parfit, future, glow, heaven, jokes, kaddish, Philadelphia, Phillies, Robert Frost, Shlomo Carlebach, stars, Steve Jobs, yizkor
Kol Nidre : Changing Your Past
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, aphasic, desert, dinner, family, father, future, Horace Greeley, J.L. Austin, joke, mother, past, Sidney Morgenbesser, stroke, Theodor Herzl, Vaudeville
Beshalach : Looking Back
Keywords: Amos Funkenstein, anger, courage, ego, empathy, energy, fence, focus, impatience, Mark Twain, Mel Brooks, memory, moment, moods, mouse, patience, peace, perfection, Persian weddings, procrastination, sundials, Tom Sawyer, trait, wisdom
Rosh Hashanah II : Time and Space
Keywords: collapse, East, Einstein, forgive, forgivness, Greek, jewish stages, possible, relativity, remember, Rosh Hashana, space, time, today, West, wrong
Rosh Hashanah I : A Sermon About Nothing
Keywords: children, golf, Kohelet, love, Michel de Montaigne, mystics, nothing, reason, reasoning, scholars, Seinfeld, silence, temple, William James
Erev Rosh Hashanah : Everything Old is New Again
Keywords: A. E. Housman, attention, braid, career, deli, generalities, George Bernard Shaw, John Burroughs, Madeline Kahn, novelty, poem, Sidney Morgenbesser, soup, specifics, weltschmerz, world weariness