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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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"Do Judaism's Prayers have a personal application?" Friday Night's Sermon (1/25/2
https://youtu.be/eewNUIcJ-GM One of the things I noticed when praying Shachrit the other day is the nature of the prayers. The great...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Jan 28, 20193 min read


Forgiveness, Revisited: Friday Night's Sermon (1/11/19)
https://youtu.be/d_UC21oGvR8 The concept of forgiveness has intrigued me for years. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the main...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Jan 13, 20194 min read


Friday Night's Sermon 1/4/19: "Relying on HaShem"
Watch: https://youtu.be/vMaYZ2ZHNsk Read: A friend of mine is a business coach. Lately, she’s been sending out daily affirmations over a...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Jan 6, 20193 min read


Friday Night's Sermon (12/28/2018): Great Kabbalistic Writing
https://youtu.be/j_JHcgXLi7k It is written that “there is none else beside Him”, meaning that there is no other power in the world with...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Dec 31, 20187 min read


Friday Night's (12/7/2018) Sermon: Hanukkah 5779
This week is Hanukkah. Many Jews observe Hanukkah as if it was the main, most important, holiday of our people. This is certainly a fun...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Dec 9, 20184 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...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Dec 3, 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...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Nov 11, 20183 min read
Friday (11/2) Night Sermon: Considering the lives of Abraham and Sarah
This week’s portion, Chayei Sara, honors our two sages and prophets, Abraham and Sara. It opens with Sara passing on and ends with...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Nov 4, 20183 min read
Friday Night's (10/12/18): Religion Vs. Science in the Torah
The debate over science vs. religion has been raging for years. Many people have declared that since religion demands no inquiry and also...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Oct 14, 20183 min read
Friday Night's (10/5) Sermon: The Cycle Of Life
This week we ended the High Holidays with Simchat Torah. This is a rabbinically mandated festival in which we honor the heritage of our...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Oct 7, 20183 min read
Friday Night's Sermon: Staggered bricks or flimsy columns? Which are you?
As we approach the end of the book of Devarim/Deuteronomy, we see Mosh Rabbeinu continuing to exhort the Israelites to study and follow...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Sep 24, 20184 min read
Friday Night's (9/7/2018) Sermon: We're all in this together
This week’s Torah portion is “Nitzavim”. It is one of the last portions of Deuteronomy as we come to the end of the Torah and will, in a...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Sep 9, 20183 min read
Friday Night Sermon (7/27): Being a separate people
This week’s Torah portion is “V’Etchanan”. This is an interesting coincidence for this time of the year. We just observed Tisha B’Av. ...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Jul 29, 20183 min read
Friday Night's Sermon: Praying Together
Someone who was Christian, Catholic actually, was expressing frustration at a concept he was told by a priest. In the gospel, Jesus is...

Rabbi Stephen Epstein
Jun 17, 20183 min read
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