Shabbat Sermons
Shabbat Sermons
Jump to Year: 5777 - 5776 - 5775 - 5774 - 5773
5779/ 2018-2019
Jun. 22 - "Humility is the true sign of greatness"
Jun. 15 - "I think I would have been a Nazirite"
Jun. 8 - "Pride and Peccability"
Jun. 1 - "Yom Yerushalayim: Triumphs and Trials"
May. 25 - "Mt. Sinai Jews or Mt. Moriah Jews"
May. 18 - "Every Jew is My Sibling"
May. 4 - "Archarei Poway"
Apr. 6 - "It’s too bad that no one gets tzara’at anymore!"
Mar. 16 - "Haman n the Beit Midrash" Block Quote
Mar. 9 - "“As a Proud American Jew & Zionist, Do I Have ‘Dual Loyalties?’”
Feb. 2 - "An Unhappy Human and an Unhappy Ghost"
Jan. 26 - "Baruch Hashem!"
Jan. 5 - “A Tribute to Amos Oz”
Dec. 22- "The Horseshoe Theory, Christmas, & the Jews"
Dec. 15 - "Fear, Courage, and Forgiveness"
Dec. 8 - "Without Faith We are But Stained Glass Windows in the Dark"
Dec. 1 - “Joseph, Hanukkah, and Us”
Nov. 24 - “Speak Your Gratitude”
Nov. 3 - “Monday Morning in Pittsburgh”
Oct. 27 - “You Can’t Multi-Task Your Judaism”
5778 / 2017-2018
Jul. 14 - Parashat Mattot-Mas’ei - Hallowed Ground
Mar. 24 - It's All About the Children
Mar. 10 - Leadership Based on Transparency & Trust
Feb. 24 - God Wears Many Masks; Including one with your face!
Jan. 13- Why the Rebbe Was Right
Dec. 9 - Hoping & Praying for Jerusalem
Dec. 3 – The Conversation We Must All Now Have With Our Children
Oct. 21 – Living in a World of #Metoo
5777 / 2016-2017
May 6 – By Laws Sermons
Apr. 8 – Shabbat Ha’Gadol
Mar. 18 – Sometimes It’s Good to Have a Stiff-Neck!
Mar. 4 – I Refuse to Surrender My Joy – Even if I’m not Particularly Happy
Jan. 14 – Parashat Vayechi – Should Any Rabbi Bless this Inauguration?
Dec. 30 – Shabbat Hannukah Parsha Mikketz: The Miracle of Courage by David Helfand
Nov. 18 – Leckh Leckha: Post Election 2016 Rabbi Elson
Oct. 24 – The Power of Intimacy: Our Connection with God
5776 / 2015-2016
Aug. 6 – Blogging Baal Teshuvahs and Loving our Fellow Jews
Jul. 30 – Leadership and Succession in Uncertain Times
Jul. 2 – What Aliyah Means to Me
Jun. 18 – The Meaning of the Rainbow
Jun. 4 – Should we still be breaking glasses at Jewish weddings?
May 28 – Does the Torah promote Socialism?
May 7 – Yom Hashoa, Yom Ha’Zikaron, & Yom Ha’atzmaut: Israel’s “High Holiday Season”
Apr. 18 – Rice on Passover?!? What’s an Ashkenazi Jew to Do?
Jan. 11 – Redemption: Your Responsibility or Our Responsibility
Nov. 7 – Remembering Rabin… 20 Years Later
Oct. 31 – What we can learn from the New York Mets about living a fuller Jewish life
Oct. 17 – Enough of Moral Equivalence
Sept. 26 – My Encounter with Pope Francis
5775 / 2014-2015
Jul. 18 – Parashat Mattot-Mas’ei – Can this stain be removed?
May 30 – The Loneliness of Samson
Apr. 18 – Shabbat Machar Chodesh – “The Problem with Other People’s Successes”
Feb. 21 – Good and Bad Chutzpah – “To Speak or Not to Speak: That is Netanyahu’s Question”
Feb. 14 – Vive la France – Am Yisrael Chai!
Jan. 17 – Parashat Va’era – The Proper Place of Fear in Religion
Jan. 03 – Parashat Vayechi – Favor vs. Favoritism
Jan. 03 – Parashat Vayigash – What if these are the last words we ever exchange
Dec. 06 – Vayishlach and Police
Nov. 21 – From Har Nof to Har Shalom, Terrorism Affects Us All
Nov. 25 – Isaac’s Mail Order Bride
Oct. 25 – Demystifying the Mikveh – by Sari Levinson Raskin
5774 / 2013-2014
Sept. 6 – Parashat Ki Teitzei – Parashat Ki Teitzei
Jul. 26 – Parashat Mas’ei – Reflections Upon Returning From Israel
Jun. 18 – Vigil for kidnapped Israelis
Jun. 14 – Parashat Shelah – The Faith of the Past = The Faith of the Future
May 31 – Parashat Naso – People Blessing People
May 24 – Parashat Bemidbar – Finding God in the Wilderness
May 10 – Parashat Behar – You Always Hurt the Ones You Love
Mar. 8 – Parashat Va-yikra – Reflections on AIPAC
Feb. 15 -Parashat Ki Tissa – The Moses Vaccine
Jan. 18 – Parashat Yitro – Jews know a lot about having enemies, but how adept are we at having friends?
Parashat Va-yeishev – Remembering Kennedy
Parashat Va-yishlah – Wrestling: The National Sport of the Jewish People
Parashat Va-yeitze – Smooth Talking Villains
Parashat Hayyei Sarah – Will the Real First Jew Please Stand Up
Parashat Va-yera – Recovering Faith Following Disappointment
Parashat B’reishit – God Created Beginnings
5773 / 2012-2013
Parashat Ki Tavo – Why the Ketubah Was Not Composed by Hallmark
Parashat Hukkat – Making Sense of Irrational Commandments
Parashat B’ha-alot’kha – A Theology for Living in a World of Suffering
Parashat Behar-Behukkotai – Besieged by Bullying
Parashat Naso – The ‘Scandal’ of the Sotah
Parashat Emor – My Evening at the Mosque: Why I Went and What I Learned
Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim – Human Beings: Better off never having been created or ‘little less than angels?’
Parashat Tazria-Metzorah – “Projection: We All Do It, But Some Dangerously More than Others”
Yom HaShoah – Holocaust and Heroism Day
Parashat Tzav/Shabbat Ha’Gadol – What Does Elijah Have to do with Passover?
Parashat Vayikra – You’ve Got to Have Skin in the Game
Parashat Yitro – What I (Just) Learned in Kindergarten
Shabbat Shira / Tu B’Shvat – The Survivor Tree
Parashat Bo – Finite Disappointment and Infinite Hope
Parashat Va’era – Why Moses Sat Out the First Thee Plagues
Parashat Shemot – How Moses’s near death experience may very well have saved his life
Parashat Vayechi – The Happiest Person in the Bible
Parashat Va-yetzei – A Moral & Religious Defence of Israel’s Actions in Gaza
Parashat Hayyei Sarah – Being Content Because You Did Your Part
Parashat Va-yera – Facing (& Acing) Life’s Inevitable Tests
Parashat Lekh L’kha – From Covenant to Crime: Why 21st Century Europe is Attempting to Ban Judaism’s Oldest Ritual
Parashat No-ah – Decrying Lip Service; Humans Must Speak From Within
Parashat B’reishit – Malala Yousufszai & Anne Frank: Profiles in Courage
Shabbat Sermons
Jump to Year: 5777 - 5776 - 5775 - 5774 - 5773
5778 / 2017-2018
Dec. 9 - Hoping & Praying for Jerusalem
Dec. 3 – The Conversation We Must All Now Have With Our Children
Oct. 21 – Living in a World of #Metoo
5777 / 2016-2017
May 6 – By Laws Sermons
Apr. 8 – Shabbat Ha’Gadol
Mar. 18 – Sometimes It’s Good to Have a Stiff-Neck!
Mar. 4 – I Refuse to Surrender My Joy – Even if I’m not Particularly Happy
Jan. 14 – Parashat Vayechi – Should Any Rabbi Bless this Inauguration?
Dec. 30 – Shabbat Hannukah Parsha Mikketz: The Miracle of Courage by David Helfand
Nov. 18 – Leckh Leckha: Post Election 2016 Rabbi Elson
Oct. 24 – The Power of Intimacy: Our Connection with God
5776 / 2015-2016
Aug. 6 – Blogging Baal Teshuvahs and Loving our Fellow Jews
Jul. 30 – Leadership and Succession in Uncertain Times
Jul. 2 – What Aliyah Means to Me
Jun. 18 – The Meaning of the Rainbow
Jun. 4 – Should we still be breaking glasses at Jewish weddings?
May 28 – Does the Torah promote Socialism?
May 7 – Yom Hashoa, Yom Ha’Zikaron, & Yom Ha’atzmaut: Israel’s “High Holiday Season”
Apr. 18 – Rice on Passover?!? What’s an Ashkenazi Jew to Do?
Jan. 11 – Redemption: Your Responsibility or Our Responsibility
Nov. 7 – Remembering Rabin… 20 Years Later
Oct. 31 – What we can learn from the New York Mets about living a fuller Jewish life
Oct. 17 – Enough of Moral Equivalence
Sept. 26 – My Encounter with Pope Francis
5775 / 2014-2015
Jul. 18 – Parashat Mattot-Mas’ei – Can this stain be removed?
May 30 – The Loneliness of Samson
Apr. 18 – Shabbat Machar Chodesh – “The Problem with Other People’s Successes”
Feb. 21 – Good and Bad Chutzpah – “To Speak or Not to Speak: That is Netanyahu’s Question”
Feb. 14 – Vive la France – Am Yisrael Chai!
Jan. 17 – Parashat Va’era – The Proper Place of Fear in Religion
Jan. 03 – Parashat Vayechi – Favor vs. Favoritism
Jan. 03 – Parashat Vayigash – What if these are the last words we ever exchange
Dec. 06 – Vayishlach and Police
Nov. 21 – From Har Nof to Har Shalom, Terrorism Affects Us All
Nov. 25 – Isaac’s Mail Order Bride
Oct. 25 – Demystifying the Mikveh – by Sari Levinson Raskin
5774 / 2013-2014
Sept. 6 – Parashat Ki Teitzei – Parashat Ki Teitzei
Jul. 26 – Parashat Mas’ei – Reflections Upon Returning From Israel
Jun. 18 – Vigil for kidnapped Israelis
Jun. 14 – Parashat Shelah – The Faith of the Past = The Faith of the Future
May 31 – Parashat Naso – People Blessing People
May 24 – Parashat Bemidbar – Finding God in the Wilderness
May 10 – Parashat Behar – You Always Hurt the Ones You Love
Mar. 8 – Parashat Va-yikra – Reflections on AIPAC
Feb. 15 -Parashat Ki Tissa – The Moses Vaccine
Jan. 18 – Parashat Yitro – Jews know a lot about having enemies, but how adept are we at having friends?
Parashat Va-yeishev – Remembering Kennedy
Parashat Va-yishlah – Wrestling: The National Sport of the Jewish People
Parashat Va-yeitze – Smooth Talking Villains
Parashat Hayyei Sarah – Will the Real First Jew Please Stand Up
Parashat Va-yera – Recovering Faith Following Disappointment
Parashat B’reishit – God Created Beginnings
5773 / 2012-2013
Parashat Ki Tavo – Why the Ketubah Was Not Composed by Hallmark
Parashat Hukkat – Making Sense of Irrational Commandments
Parashat B’ha-alot’kha – A Theology for Living in a World of Suffering
Parashat Behar-Behukkotai – Besieged by Bullying
Parashat Naso – The ‘Scandal’ of the Sotah
Parashat Emor – My Evening at the Mosque: Why I Went and What I Learned
Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim – Human Beings: Better off never having been created or ‘little less than angels?’
Parashat Tazria-Metzorah – “Projection: We All Do It, But Some Dangerously More than Others”
Yom HaShoah – Holocaust and Heroism Day
Parashat Tzav/Shabbat Ha’Gadol – What Does Elijah Have to do with Passover?
Parashat Vayikra – You’ve Got to Have Skin in the Game
Parashat Yitro – What I (Just) Learned in Kindergarten
Shabbat Shira / Tu B’Shvat – The Survivor Tree
Parashat Bo – Finite Disappointment and Infinite Hope
Parashat Va’era – Why Moses Sat Out the First Thee Plagues
Parashat Shemot – How Moses’s near death experience may very well have saved his life
Parashat Vayechi – The Happiest Person in the Bible
Parashat Va-yetzei – A Moral & Religious Defence of Israel’s Actions in Gaza
Parashat Hayyei Sarah – Being Content Because You Did Your Part
Parashat Va-yera – Facing (& Acing) Life’s Inevitable Tests
Parashat Lekh L’kha – From Covenant to Crime: Why 21st Century Europe is Attempting to Ban Judaism’s Oldest Ritual
Parashat No-ah – Decrying Lip Service; Humans Must Speak From Within
Parashat B’reishit – Malala Yousufszai & Anne Frank: Profiles in Courage
Sat, December 14 2019
16 Kislev 5780
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: 4:15p |
Havdalah : 5:32p |
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