This week’s Torah portion is “Vayechi”—“And he lived”. As we come to the end of the book of Genesis, the beginning, Jacob is blessing...

Sermon Dennis Praeger, the conservative commentator, recently made an interesting point about one the most important commandments. “Love...

Friday Night Sermon (08/16/2019): "Letting them in" Many of you have probably heard of the latest current events news regarding Israel. ...

Friday Night Sermon (08/09/2019): "Helping others to prevent violence" In a closed system, if everything is intact, whatever the system...

Sermon: Following the Crowd There’s a joke about rice, and the punchline is: “A billion Chinese can’t be wrong”. The point is that the...

Presentation of Sermon Balak was a good strategist and tactician. He saw that the Israelites had Hashem on their side and thus had what...

Presentation of sermon about "More about Anger" “Who is strong? He (she) who controls their passions” so said King Solomon is Proverbs...

Friday Night Sermon: "Concentration camps vs detention centers" 7/5/2019 Usually for sermons, I take the current Torah portion and expand...

https://youtu.be/ri9I3B4yQ4U This week’s portion of the Torah is “Shelach L’cha”. Many remember this portion as the incident of the...

https://youtu.be/hA0Hk_8fntU I have a friend who’s a business coach. A few months ago, she published a series of affirmations over a...

https://youtu.be/zcgr0ieyvcE There has been a decline in attendance and membership in synagogues. To paraphrase Bob Dylan: “And we would...

https://youtu.be/lOof2RYRpnI This week’s portion is Behukotai and contains the “Tochacha”, or warning. In this discussion, Hashem tells...

https://youtu.be/dxzeOgHRBu8 A few months ago, someone mentioned the phrase, “Toxic Masculinity”. It seemed an interesting description...

https://youtu.be/bqk0e262TPQ Unfortunately, here we are again, six months to the day, another tragedy. Another shooting in a synagogue. ...

https://youtu.be/oXuGX6HYtF4 This week’s Torah portion for Shabbat is the second Passover/Shabbat portion. Since Pesach is eight days,...

https://youtu.be/fhr6NrTCxZ0 We all go through our travails in life. Some of the challenges we face seem so daunting as to be unfixable,...

https://youtu.be/CIQLjrBzZ9Q Wild Cherry in the 1970’s proclaimed, “I believe in Miracles…”. Jefferson Starship lament, “If only you...

https://youtu.be/1YrUBM839f4 “Oh, Lord, guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking falsehood; and to those who slander me, let...

https://youtu.be/deB-znCprXY Why do we need commandments? Ever consider that? Why do we need to have a Torah? Why, in fact, is even...

https://youtu.be/XXISIikbKU4 This week’s portion is “Mishpatim”. We now start to get introduced to the other commandments after Moses...