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Vayera: Mitzvot Thai Style
Keywords: Abraham, AJWS, American Jewish World Service, Angela Maddahi, Bangkok, beauty, Buddha, Buddhism, Burma, Cambodia, challah, charity, child slavery, city, dreams, Facebook, Ghana, graciousness, Hong Kong, human rights, Joseph, land rights, literacy, Liberia, Muslim, NGO, Nigeria, poor, poverty, Ruth Messinger, Sodom, statues, Sudan, Thailand, travel, Twitter, village, war widows, wealth
Lech Lecha: Masked and Unmasked
Keywords: Abraham, broken, Canaan, Egypt, famine, Hagar, mask, masks, October, Pharaoh, plague, Purim, Rabbi Jack Riemer, Sarah, sister, weak, wife, Yom Kippur
Noach: Majesty and Humility
Keywords: abjection, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Adam, ashes, Avrum Burg, brain, darkness, death, Dr. Neil Martin, dust, ego, Eliezer Slomovic, fire, frame, German, hubris, humiliation, humility, image, limits, majesty, Mark Twain, memory, Moses, neurosurgery, Noah, once again, polarity, Rabbinical school, Tower Of Babel, UCLA
Bereshit: From the Garden of Eden to the Land of Israel
Keywords: Anton Chekhov, beast, beginning, Beverly, birth, Bloomingdale’s, city, Coldwater, death, dream, Eden, editors, end, ending, flowers, GPS, gun, ideas, Israel, kings, mall, map, Nordstrom, nothing, orange, outline, perfect, person, prejudice, prohibition, steady-state, stories, story, study, tapeworms, tree, unformed, vanity
Sukkot III : Much is Taken, Much Abides
Keywords: autum, business, Damon Runyon, dying, enjoy, eternity, faith, fall, family, futile, kohelet, mutability, sukkah, sukkot, time of our joy, useless, wisdom
Sukkot I : Three Observations About Sukkot
Keywords: agility, courtesy, crops, darshan, elephant, hoshanot, Jack Reamer, lulav, observations, playfulness, religious lawyers, skill, soil, stars, sukkha, sukkot, YouTube
Yom Kippur : Return to Life
Keywords: ape, Baal Shem Tov, bars, cage, captive, change, Chasidism, children, cold, crystal geyser, destiny, electric blanket, garbage man, girlfriend, Hatufim, Hayim Bialik, Henry David Thoreau, Homeland, Jericho, Joshua, Louis Zamperini, Maggid of Mezritch, magic, naive, parents, piano, pizza, POWs, raft, room, sanitation, shofar, Virginia Wolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Walden, walls
Kol Nidre : Closeness and Distance
Keywords: Anne Lamott, Arthur Schopenhauer, Barbara Myerhoff, bird by bird, closeness, community, controversy, distance, facebook, firing squad, Freud, give, Hillel, Isaac Leib Peretz, Jan Zakowski, joke, korban, Litvak, love, money, Number Our Days, phones, porcupines, poverty, power, repentance, return, sacrifice, so much, Thailand, t’shuvah, twitter, Yom Kippur War
Ha’Azinu : Sin and Repentance
Keywords: change, choices, deeds, evil, het, interiority, korban, point of choice, prayer, Raish Lakish, repentance, return, sacrifice, shabbot shuvah, shuvah, sin, Socrates, t’filah, Theodor Herzl, t’shuvah, wrong