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Reflections on Parkland Shootings #526

02/27/2018 10:46:20 PM

Feb27

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What if God was one of us....?

Just a stranger on the bus...

tryin' to make his way home? 

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Rabbi Irwin Update #524: Two Torahs at Sinai

02/06/2018 01:06:30 AM

Feb6

Two Torahs at Sinai

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The Talmud tells us of the day that Moses was jettisoned more than a thousand years into the future, into the classroom of one of our greatest Sages, Rabbi...Read more...

Rabbi Irwin Update #523: God Hates Trash Talk

02/06/2018 01:04:02 AM

Feb6

God Hates Trash Talk

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About ten years ago, a television ad appeared for Nike shoes, which turns my stomach to this day.

It opens with a group of ten-year-olds playing a polite game of basketball on an inner city court. A car pulls up with some...Read more...

The 2018 Plague of Darkness #522

01/22/2018 11:11:01 PM

Jan22

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      Hello darkness, my old friend;

   ...Read more...

#521: Moses -- Somewhere Over the Rainbow

01/16/2018 12:36:56 AM

Jan16

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This past December 25th, I rewatched one of the most treasured movies of my...Read more...

#520: The Power of Your Hebrew Name

01/08/2018 12:28:29 AM

Jan8

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A popular website which monitors facts relating to pregnancy, birth, and babies recently released its list...Read more...

#519: Your Ethical Will -- How Will Your Be Remembered?

01/03/2018 10:52:06 PM

Jan3

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There comes a...Read more...

#518: Pharaoh, Chanukah and the Environment

12/15/2017 09:56:35 PM

Dec15

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We live in a world where increasingly we are referred to as consumers rather than citizens.

We live in a disposable world.  Cellphones are upgraded every two years, while old ones languish in drawers until they are eventually tossed.

Computers,...Read more...

#517: Silence Breakers - Forgotten Women of the Torah

12/10/2017 05:12:23 PM

Dec10

Silence Breakers - Forgotten Women of the Torah

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Years before I decided to become a rabbi, our congregation in Canada interviewed several people for our then-vacant rabbinical position.

One candidate, leading the Amidah prayer, began...Read more...

We are Wrestlers with God #515

12/03/2017 05:44:27 PM

Dec3

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It is saddening, in my pastoral work, to see how consistently siblings, spouses, and friends will hold on to conflicts, no matter how old or "past due" they...Read more...

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