If we pause for a moment, and I ask each of you to picture an angel in your mind, you likely will think of a glowing being, cloaked in white, wings flapping, and a golden halo glistening overhead. Or, perhaps, (Read More...)
Sermons
Parashat Vayetze: Angels Among Us
November 28, 2009 / 11 Kislev 5770
Parashat Lekh Lekha: The Making of a Soul
October 31, 2009 / 13 Heshvan 5770
I really rarely fail to write a letter to customer service. Good service, Bad service. This past week, had I been on that plane, Northwest Airlines definitely would’ve heard from me. I, of course, am talking about Flight 188 from (Read More...)
Noah – A Serious Man?
October 24, 2009 / 6 Heshvan 5770
Shabbat Shalom, Eleh toldot Noah. Noah ish tzadik tamim haya b’dorotav. This first verse of our Torah reading has been variously translated, “Noah was blameless in his age.” “Perfect in his generation.” “Unblemished in his time.” This morning, though, I’d like to (Read More...)
Neilah: Medical Directives
September 28, 2009 / 10 Tishrei 5770 by Rabbi Kassel Abelson
Yom Kippur: The Debts We Owe
September 28, 2009 / 10 Tishrei 5770 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
Kol Nidre: 40 Years After Woodstock
September 27, 2009 / 9 Tishrei 5770 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Rosh Hashannah: The Holey Game
September 19, 2009 / 1 Tishrei 5770 by Rabbi Kassel Abelson
Rosh Hashanah: The Book of Prosperity
September 19, 2009 / 1 Tishrei 5770 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
Parashat Shemini: Reflections on Israel Trip 2009
April 18, 2009 / 24 Nisan 5769 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
Pesah / Yizkor: And You Shall Tell it to Your Child
April 16, 2009 / 22 Nisan 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Shabbat HaHodesh: The Times They are a Changing
March 21, 2009 / 25 Adar 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Parashat Zachor Limud: Wiping out Amalek: קדושׁת לוי – שׁמות פּרשׁת זכור
March 7, 2009 / 11 Adar 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Parashat Yitro Limud: Daily Kabbalah B’Ratzon
February 14, 2009 / 20 Shevat 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Limud: A Presidential Blessing
January 24, 2009 / 28 Tevet 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Parshat Vayehi: A Famine not of Food, but of Security
January 10, 2009 / 14 Tevet 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Madoff Madness vs Macabee Miracles
December 20, 2008 / 23 Kislev 5769 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
Parshat Vayishlah: Changing Names and Neighbors
December 13, 2008 / 16 Kislev 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Parshat Hayyei Sarah: A Mandate to Give Thanks
November 21, 2008 / 23 Heshvan 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Veteran’s Day: He’eru Lamavet Nafsham B’ad Artzam
November 8, 2008 / 10 Heshvan 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Shemini Atzeret / Yizkor: Tears for Rain
October 21, 2008 / 22 Tishrei 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Parshat Haazinu: Seeing is Believing
October 11, 2008 / 12 Tishrei 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Kol Nidre 5769: Renovation of the Home and the Self
October 8, 2008 / 9 Tishrei 5769 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
The Wine Continued
October 1, 2008 / 2 Tishrei 5769 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
It’s a Sin: High Holidays 2 5769
September 30, 2008 / 1 Tishrei 5769 by Rabbi Kassel Abelson
Parshat Nitzavim: A Divine Moral Bailout
September 27, 2008 / 27 Elul 5768 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Community Selichot 5768: To Sacrifice Oneself
September 20, 2008 / 20 Elul 5768 by Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
To Hope is to Live: High Holidays 5767
September 23, 2006 / 1 Tishrei 5767 by Rabbi Kassel Abelson
The Last Letter (YK 5766/05)
October 13, 2005 / 10 Tishrei 5766 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
Facing Extinction, Facing Hope – Bamidbar 5/04
May 8, 2004 / 17 Iyar 5764 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
Parashat Vayigash: God Talk
January 2, 2004 / 8 Tevet 5764 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
Parashat Lekh Lekha: To Free or not to Free: That is the Question
November 7, 2003 / 12 Heshvan 5764 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
The Language of Halakha- Vayeira 11/03
November 1, 2003 / 6 Heshvan 5764 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
The Point of Torah: Shabbat Bereshit (’03)
October 18, 2003 / 22 Tishrei 5764 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
The High Holy Days- a Time to Dream (5764/’03)
September 27, 2003 / 1 Tishrei 5764 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
High Holy Days 5763
September 7, 2002 / 1 Tishrei 5763 by Rabbi Alexander Davis
