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Bereshit: From the Garden of Eden to the Land of Israel

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 28, 2013

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

Yom Kippur : Return to Life

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 14, 2013

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

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 13, 2013

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

First Day of Rosh Hashanah : Jewish Love

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 5, 2013

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

Rabbi David Wolpe | September 4, 2013

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

Rabbi David Wolpe | August 31, 2013

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

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