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Balak – Lehitra’ot-See you again, not goodbye
Keywords: Hillel, ignorant, ill-tempered, magnets, Northridge, refrigerator door, secret space, shy, synaggue, uncultured
Chukat – Why Are You So Moody?
Keywords: character, Emerson, landscape, Miriam, mood, moodiness, Moses, Whitman
Korach – What We Teach, How We Learn, Why We Sing
Keywords: essence, French Revolution, Miriam, Moses, reporter, Reverend Thomas, Tennison, wicked bible, Yeats
Sh’lah L’kha – Reflections On My Years at Sinai
Keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Akiba, Ayatollah, Bet Shirah, blessing, Caleb, Communist, community, Ellie Wiezel, family, floatilla, Friday Night Live, Gaza, health, Israel, Joshua, leap of action, Miami, milk, naval blockade, Nazi
Beha’alotcha – A White House Visit
Keywords: 1492, Anthony Julius, Don Yitzchak Abravanel, Emma Lazarus, England, exile, Ferdinand and Isabella, Independence Mall, Jewish Heratige Month, Memorial Day, miracle, Oliver Cromwell, Rahm Emanuel, Regina Spektor, Robert Pinsky, Sandy Kofax, Spain, statue,The New Colossus, Unknown Soldier, White House
Nasso – Wisdom is Easy; Change is Hard
Keywords: bad, change, Freud. good. habits, insight, Oprah, rationalization, regret, Samson, Socrates, soul, will, William James, wisdom
Bamidbar – How Do You Count?
Keywords: Bamidbar, census, count, freedom, give, giving, half shekel, numbers, Rabbi Sachs, Ralph Reznik, shamus, taxes
Behar-Bechukotai – A Lesson From My Father
Keywords: birthday, dialysis, father, G.K. Chesterton, holiday, Kadish, limitations, limits, love, medical ethics, Mother’s Day, Yohr Tzeit
Emor – The Divided Self
Keywords: argue, As A Driven Leaf, Avid, conflict, divided, doubt, Freud, Israel, Joseph Epstein, Hoshea, Jung, Milton Steinberg, poetry, R.D. Lang, Talmud, The Divided Self, The Red Book, Whitman, Yeats, Yom Kippur
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim – Unity for Israel
Keywords: acceptance, Aramains, Ethiopians, friends, Haftorah, Jesus, light, Mohammed, Muslim, orphanage, Philistines, Rick Warren, Robert Frost, Talmud, Theodor Herzl, Yom Ha’atzmaut