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RABBI STEPHEN EPSTEIN
רבי שמואל בן-יהושע
A MODERN CONSERVATIVE RABBI
Rabbi at Temple Sholom of Ontario
Serving San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, CA and all of Southern California
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Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Apr 27, 20193 min read
Friday Night Sermon: "The Humanity of Judaism" 4/26/2019
https://youtu.be/oXuGX6HYtF4 This week’s Torah portion for Shabbat is the second Passover/Shabbat portion. Since Pesach is eight days,...
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Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Apr 7, 20193 min read
Sermon, 4/5/19 "Believing in Miracles"
https://youtu.be/CIQLjrBzZ9Q Wild Cherry in the 1970’s proclaimed, “I believe in Miracles…”. Jefferson Starship lament, “If only you...
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Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Feb 9, 20193 min read
Friday Night's Sermon (02/08/2019): Why Do We Need Commandments?
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...
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Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Dec 3, 20183 min read
Friday Night's (11/30/18) Sermon: Emulating our Patriarchs by doing the right thing.
One the unique things about Judaism is how we portray our Patriarchs, Matriarchs, prophets and sages. Each one of them is human, each...
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Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Nov 11, 20183 min read
Friday Night's Sermon (11/9/2018): A lesson from our Patriarchs as how to get along
This week’s portion is Toldot—Generations. We see that Abraham and Sarah have died, Issac and Rebecca have lived their lives and are now...
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Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Sep 3, 20183 min read
Last Friday's Sermon: Being grateful with the first fruits
This week’s Torah portion is “Ki Tavo”, when you come in [to the land]. And when we come into the land, after we’ve settled, we will...
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