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Korach — When Holiness Kills
Keywords: Aaron, Aviram, Dathan, dirt, Egypt, Eliezer, holiness, humility, incense, killed, Korach, Levites, Leviticus, Moses, mud, power, sacrifice, South Carolina, strength, tabernacle, tragedy
Sh’lach — Leadership
Keywords: dance, Ethiopia, fear, Game Of Thrones, IDF, Khrushchev, kings, leaders, leadership, Moses, prayer, president, Ralph Nader, Russia, scouts, Sharansky, Stalin, Svetlana Stalin, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Beha’alotcha — Our Appetites
Keywords: asaf soof, burgers, complain, complaint, cows, crave, David Brenner, find, freezer, home, keys, lack, livestock, meals, meat, money, search, sheep, vacation, vegetarian
Nasso — Overestimate Yourself!
Keywords: coat, concentration camps, crosswind, Delilah, flying, Judges, Lincoln, math, memory, nazir, nudnik, over-estimate, past, philistine, purpose, Samson, self-esteem, tapes, thesis, Viktor Frankl, YouTube
Shavuot II – Yizkor: The Unknown Sacrifices
Keywords: ancestors, battle, children, continuity, gratitude, joy, Memorial Day, memory, mourn, parents, proof, remember, sacrifice, soldiers, sorrow, witness, Yizkor
Shavuot I – Shavuot & the Adult Bnot Mitzvah Ceremony
Keywords: Abraham, agricultural, barley, contradiction, dairy, differences, figurative, first fruits, harvest, intermarriage, literalist, Ruth, women
Bamidbar — Rabbinic Installation & Renewal
Keywords: betroth, count, crying, Guzik, hire, intern, internship, interview, king, married, musicians, New York, notes, parents, Pico, play, pray, renewal, Robertson, Sherman, siblings, students, Syracuse, ten years
Emor — Our Mother’s Voices
Keywords: bedroom, circumcised, convent, cradle, historians, kitchen, lullaby, Moshe, mothers, Napoleon, voice
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim — The Spirituality of Imperfection
Keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Abraham Lincoln, Baltimore, broken, character, child, clothes, despair, fight, garment, gossip, guest, healer, heroes, Jacob, Kotzker Rebbe, ladder, leaping, loser, Miriam, Nepal,pain, pain, perfect, perfection, sadness, suffering, traitor, vessels, wearing, Winston Churchill
Tazria-Metzora — Love and Gossip
Keywords: Abraham, Aharon Lichtenstein, attack, balance, celebrities, complain, couples, escape, externals, gossip, holiness, husbands, immunization, Israel, Joseph Soloveitchik, love, lovingly, medical, Miriam, Moshe, refuge, scholars, skin disease, Theodor Herzl, victims, vision, wives, Zionism