HeyJaredBeyond The Shtetl
Rooted in tradition, proudly heimish, Beyond the Shtetl features Rabbi Miriam Potok and the Adat Shalom community in conversation about all that it means to be a Jew in West LA today.
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Yom Kippur Day 5787: Caregiving and Healing (opens the original)
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Rabbi Potok's Yom Kippur Day sermon, given at Adat Shalom in West Los Angeles. Learn about our prayers for healing and how you can be part of a loved one's caregiving team.
Kol Nidre 5787: To Love The Life You Have, Grieve The Life You Lost (opens the original)
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Rabbi Potok's Kol Nidre sermon, given at Adat Shalom in West Los Angeles. Explore the connection between Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur and learn how feeling our grief can make us fall in love with life.
Shabbat Shuvah 5787: What Is T'Shuvah? (opens the original)
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Rabbi Potok's Shabbat Shuvah sermon, given at Adat Shalom in West Los Angeles. We know that the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is our time to "make t'shuvah" and return to the right path in life. But how exactly do we do that? What are the steps we need to take?
Rosh Hashanah 5787: People of the Book, Not the Screen (opens the original)
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Rabbi Potok's Rosh Hashanah Day 2 sermon, given at Adat Shalom in West Los Angeles. Did you know that reading from screens rather than books decreases comprehension while giving the reader false confidence in what they've learned? Listen now to discover how this impacts our relationship with Torah and why we should be a people of the book, not the screen.
Rosh Hashanah 5787: Bipartisan Support for Israel in 2026 (opens the original)
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Rabbi Potok's Rosh Hashanah Day 1 sermon, given at Adat Shalom in West Los Angeles. We can best build bipartisan support for Israel in 2026 when we can make a progressive case for Israel's importance to the Jewish people worldwide.
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