Dear Temple Beth-El, We are back into the swing of things this Shabbat, with our holiday season in the rearview mirror. We enter into Parashat Noach yet again, and perhaps not without some trepidation–a flood is coming, after all; here’s hoping you have a nice stockpile of gopher wood. In seriousness though, if you really Continue Reading »
Dear Temple Beth-El, I’m pleased to let you know that all of my High Holy Day sermons, as well as the inspiring messages delivered by our lay leaders, are now able to be viewed at our website, via this link. As a rabbi, it is a privilege to be able to address our community each Continue Reading »
Dear Temple Beth-El, Two years ago today on the Jewish calendar began the most difficult period in the history of the State of Israel, and a dark time for global Jewry. We mourned and prayed and hoped for this day for two years of war, over and over again invoking God as “Matir Asurim,” “Freer Continue Reading »
Dear Temple Beth-El, This Shabbat is our final Shabbat of this past year’s Torah reading cycle, and would otherwise have been the Shabbat on which we read from V’zot Hab’rachah, the very last parashah in our Torah that details the blessings Moses gave the tribes and then his ultimate passing as he looked out into Continue Reading »
Dear Temple Beth-El, Tonight we will enter into the holiest day of our calendar year–Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Before I get to my yontif message, a request: If you have a shofar and would like to blow it to help us end Yom Kippur, please bring it with you to Ne’ilah services! We Continue Reading »
