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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
Nitzavim-Vayeilech : “Perfect Jews”
Keywords: 5771,asparagus, bad Jew, beard, failure, food pantry, Franz Rosenzweig, good Jew, ideal Jew, kindness, kosher, mitzvah, money, old man, rules, sea, shopping cart, sky, sova
Ki Tavo : Secret Goodness, Secret Sin
Keywords: Blaise Pascal, blessings, b’not mitzvah, chew, cured, curses, gum, idols, point, public, Rabbi Gratz, secret, sermon, solitude, worship
Ki Teitzei : Torah Lessons from 9/11
Keywords: 9-11, Brian Sweeney , C.C. Lyles, Civil War, coffin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gershwin, Jerusalem, Judah Maccabee, Mark Bingham, Mel Gibson, Melissa Herrington, mountains, New York, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Revolutionary War, terror, Tom Burnett, tragedy, twin towers, Vespasian, Walter Hines, Yavneh
Shoftim : What is Religious?
Keywords: aesthetics, bar. beauty. beggars, ethics, fish, Gerard Manley Hopkins, joke, Max Kadushin, narrow bridge, New Yoker, Paul Clay, Rabbi Nachman, religious, Rome, William Haslett, Yehoshua ben Levi
Re’eh : What is Conservative Judaism?
Keywords: Akiva, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Biblica Hebrea Stuttgart, caterpillar, Conservative Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, definition, history, identity, Isaiah, Lee Levine, Maimonides, mind, Oral Roberts, Roche, self, slavery, Solomon Schechter, Theodor Herzl, Torah Code
Eikev : Punished By Rewards
Keywords: Avraham, baby, Balshentov, goodness, learning, Moshe, Mother Teresa, rewards, steal, stock market, Una Tana Tokef
Vaetchanan : Deuteronomy and the London Riots
Keywords: burn, economic, Exodus, fun, George Will, London, Moses, religion, riots, smash, society, Ten Commandments