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16 Kislev 578 What do Jacob and Hanukkah have in common? Listen to the Recorded Message: https://youtu.be/VZ8vuuYzbMw In a couple of weeks, we will celebrate a special festival for our people, Hanukkah. This is the Festival of Lights and this year we will light the seventh candle on Christmas day. There is a relationship between the […]
9 Kislev 5783 https://youtu.be/qVP4W2qOnys What does Jacob’s Ladder Symbolize? The beauty that I find in our community, Kehilat She’ar Yashuv and that our rabbi always brought to our attention is that we are not a religious group that censors outside ideas and that although we have unity, we are not stuck in uniformity in how […]
2 Kislev 5783 Rejoice, O barren one! https://youtu.be/kOEEORSpSEY Isaiah 54:1 says: “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband, says the LORD.” Today, many of us […]
25 Cheshvan 5783 Are we living a life of integrity? https://youtu.be/bWHI0WJ-8ck Every story in the Torah contains pictures that are meant to teach us principles on how to live our lives. One picture is worth a thousand words. When I prepare a message, like our rabbi did for so many years, I ask our Creator […]
18 Cheshvan 5783 Am I compromising my integrity? To set the stage of the message for today, allow me to give you a little history about Parashah Vayera. Abram has now become Abraham and Sarai, Sarah. There’s a very interesting narrative in chapters 18 and 22 which are important in light of religions creating and […]
11 Cheshvan 5783 Lech Lecha: Meet and listen to the call The recorded message: https://youtu.be/d0U5bTJDHd4 The Zohar interprets the opening words of this parashah, Lech Lecha, as “going to yourself”. “Lech” means “to go” and “Lecha” means “to yourself”. Therefore, according to mystical thought, the first crucial step in life is to go inward, within […]
4 Cheshvan 5783 Are you building your ark? The Recorded message: https://youtu.be/uPrW2d-L7vk This week the tire of my car blew out on the street. I hadn’t changed one for years, and at the beginning I choked a bit, not because I didn’t know how to do the job, but because the lug nuts were so […]
27 Tishrei 5783 taken from message from Ranebi on 27 Tishrei 5777 Recording: https://youtu.be/ock-zbd9hNk Do we think the Creator doesn’t see us? The Torah is filled with stories that hold universal teachings for humanity. One such story is in Parashat Bereshit in Chapter 4, in which we read about two brothers, Cain and Abel, the first […]
20 Tishrei 5783 To listen to the message, click on https://youtu.be/d39tAfvdhvM Sukkot is without a doubt the most colorful of the holidays in the Jewish calendar. This festival lasts seven days during which we are to live in a Sukkah. Throughout our history, our sages have developed a variety of ways to celebrate and to […]
13 Tishrei 5783 To watch recording: https://youtu.be/xq1bkhe_rxU Who is a Jew? Who is a Jew? This question came up twice during this week alone. The first time, when I was surfing YouTube, I saw a video entitled The Secret to Jewish Survival and the next day I received an article written by a Hebrew Christian […]
