Sunday, December 09, 2012

Shlomo's Drash: Through The Darkness

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As part of Hanukkah the first two parts of the story of Joseph come before and during the holiday. In the first, we are introduced to Jose...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Noah 5773: The Tower of Babel and the App Store

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There is more to the world than the United States. That should be obvious, but events this week floored me into realizing it. What floors me...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Is Religion A Good Thing?

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Is religion a good thing? For the last few years, it has been a question that seems to loom over many of us. There definitely are sides. The...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Sukkot 5773: Is the Simple Life Complex?

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Since I was about five years old, I've been involved in building a sukkah. My family did not have our own in our own yard, but we did pu...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Post Yom Kippur 5773: Return Again

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I believe in Signs from God. That I just got one certainly colors my view. That it was the same sign as I got seventeen years ago just rattl...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Shlomo’s Drash Yizkor 5773

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I went to visit mom in the cemetery Sunday. After driving there, my wife and I sat with her at her bronze grave marker for about a hour talk...
Friday, April 06, 2012

Passover 5772: Why I am Still a Slave

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Tonight begins Passover, this year overlapping Shabbat. The last week has given me time to think, and the pain in my bones muscles and stoma...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Vayakhel- Pekudei 5772: Is Craft a Holy Thing?

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This week’s double portion we have the building of the Mishkan, starting with Moses telling the people the last instruction told to him on S...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Rashi Decoder for iPad and iPhone

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 Have problems reading Rashi script? Rashi decoder is a calculator style app to change Rashi style fonts into block Hebrew for those who kn...
Sunday, October 02, 2011

Rosh Hashana 5772: A Mourner at Rosh Hashana

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I stood in the darkened anteroom corner of this synagogue my congregation rented looking out into the night while the choir rehearses. There...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Ki Tavo 5771: The Evil of Tea?

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This week we read the ceremony of the first fruits and instruction for the ceremony at Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerizim of the Blessings and Curses....
Thursday, September 08, 2011

D'varim 5771: Pt.2 Resistance and the Yetzer Hara

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In this week’s portion, Moses gives the people a review of the book Numbers. In this Cliff's Notes version he recounts their leaving Sin...

Parshat D'varim 5771: Tisha B’Av and Marriage.

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This is my Auf Ruf D'var Torah at Emanuel Congregation and Congregation Or Chadash Erev Shabbat August 5 2011 Marriage...Marriage is wha...

Shelach 5771: Sink or Swim

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Last week I was at the bat mitzvah of our our Rabbi's daughter. In her D'var Torah, the Bat Mitzvah asked a very good question relat...

Behaalotecha 5771: Healing and Petitionary Prayer

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Last weekend we had a discussion about Petitionary prayer in my Shabbat morning minyan. I said nothing in the discussion, though I had a lot...