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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
Second Day of Rosh Hashanah : Rosh Hashana dialogue with Rabbi Wolpe & Rabbi Artson
First Day of Rosh Hashanah : Jewish Love
Keywords: Ahavat Yisrael, angel, anti-Sematism, Ba’al, Christian, covenant, destiny, Elijah, Europe, Golden Calf, Gwyneth Paltrow, history, Jezebel, Jonathan Saxe, Joseph Epstein, Joseph Telushkin, Louvre, Maurice Samuel, megachurch, Michelle Garfinkel, Moses, museum, Paris, persecution, Rick Warren, Ron Wolfson, sabbatocal, security, Soviet Union, Versailles
Erev Rosh Hashanah : Pushing the Limits
Keywords: alcoholic, awareness, Boaz, boys, catastrophes, choice, choices, courage, Eliyahu Dessler, Esther, Esther, faith, girl, illness, Job, loss, Michtav me-Eliyahu, moral, Mordechai, Moses, Moshe, mother, Musar literature, narrow, narrowness, nikud taba hirah, passion, point of choice, repentance, rote, Ruth, Sherwood Anderson, sin, trust
Nitzavim-Vayeilech : Moses’ Management Plan
Keywords: Aaron, Acadian, AJU, Ancient Greek, budget, corrections, death, God’s Love, Good To Great, Jim Collins, King Saul, leader, manage, management, Midian, Moses, people, rabbi, Samson, Saul Lieberman, secrets, spies, Tablet magazine
Ki Tavo: Should I Study Or Get A Job?
Keywords: Berlitz, Camelot, car, comfortable, education, exercise, FaceBook, Game Of Thrones, Harry Potter, Herbrew, Italian, job, joke, King Arthur, learn, learning, make a living, Merlin, Rabbi Ishmael, Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai, social media, study, Terence Hanbury White, The Once And Future King, tweet, twitter, work
Ki Teitzei: Amalek,Then and Now
Keywords: AIPAC, Amalekm, anti-Semites, anti-Semitism, Arab, authority, Balfour Declaration, Charles Krauthammer, Egypt, Einstein, internet, Iran, iron wall, Jordan, Joseph Lieberman, Leon Wieseltier, Levi Yitzchok Berditchev, Michael Oren, military, nuclear bomb, rejection, sitting, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Washington, Yossi Klein Halevi