Click HERE (video) for: What Does the Famous Verse “Lekh Lekha” (Genesis 12:1) Really Mean? Click HERE (video) for: Putting Sodom & Gemorah In Context with Rashi’s Commentary. We learn about the people of those cities and about the King… Read More »
Click HERE (video) for the sermon: Religious, Responsible Human Beings. Noah inspires us in unique ways just like our founding mothers and fathers of the Jewish People. Click HERE (video): Why Did God Flood the World? Torah study with Rashi:… Read More »
Click HERE (video) for Rabbi Bolton’s Shabbat Bereishit sermon: Universal Yet Particular – The Cosmos, Creation, and Becoming Lights to the Nations. This week’s combination of the haftarah and the weekly portion highlight both the universal connections and particular covenantal… Read More »
Click HERE to listen to a D’var Torah called: Living in a Hut, Recalculating Home. Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan had a way of defining holiday periods that help us gain perspective on our lives and our world. Click HERE for: Mayim,… Read More »
Click HERE for a recorded Sukkot sermon: Living With Less, Still Finding Joy. We go from the most ascetic day of the Jewish year, spiritually cleansed and with our slates clean, to … a shaky sukkah? The holiday of Sukkot… Read More »
Dear Or Zarua members and friends, Shabbat Shuvah Shalom! This special Sabbath between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur is for meaningful reconciliations, prayerfulness and repentance. It is also very much about the delight of setting a course of keeping Shabbat… Read More »
Melting clocks is an image that I associate with the Pandemic. Oy, the meltdown! Time is supposed to be measurable, and for the Jewish People we gather in holy spaces to mark time. We call those shehecheyanu moments. The contents… Read More »
Click HERE for a video of Josh Gold sounding the shofar, for Elul inspiration. Click HERE for a D’var Torah for Parshat Netzavim-Vayeilekh: God, Not Us, Blesses the New Month of Tishrei.… Read More »
Click HERE for Get Your Gift Basket Ready to explore the Ramban’s commentary on preparing the first fruits offering in Parshat Ki Tavo. Click HERE for The Tzedakah Imperative in Elul – Beyond An Accounting of the Soul, a sermon… Read More »
Click HERE for a Shabbat sermon: Because I Said So – It’s Good for Your Soul. What does the verse about shooing away a mother bird come to teach us according to the Ramban and Rambam? Click HERE for a… Read More »