HeyJaredRabbi Yossy Goldman
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Where is everybody? (opens the original)
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So, what is the secret of human happiness? A fellow was walking down the street from his house and noticed an older-looking man sitting on the porch, looking like the happiest man on earth. So he asked him, “What’s your secret to enjoying a happy life?” The old man answered, “Three packs of cigarettes a day, I eat whatever I like, I go through a bottle of whisky a week, and I never exercise.” “Wow!” said the passerby. “How old are you?” Every year on Yom Kippur, I look out at the sanctuary, and
Resolutions, anyone? (opens the original)
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Does anybody still make New Year’s resolutions? Or are we over that phase? One guy said, “My New Year’s resolution is to have a fat bank account and a skinny body. Last year, I got mixed up!” Most people I know have long stopped making New Year’s resolutions because they know it doesn’t work. They just go “in one year, and out the other!” The harsh reality is that “Change” has been described as the single most difficult thing to do in the world! We get comfortable in our discomfort. “Better the
As the New Year approaches: Joy or dread? (opens the original)
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I remember, as a boy, standing beside my father in shul during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, listening to him as he recited Avinu Malkeinu. Two words in Hebrew, four in English: Our Father, Our King. And I remember asking him once, which one is it, Tatty? Is God a king, sitting in judgment on high, weighing every deed on His scales? Or is He a loving father? My dad smiled the way dads do when a question is bigger than the child asking it. He told the story of a Jew back in Eastern Europe who mad
The son who never was … until he was (opens the original)
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Sadly, some people still believe that the Torah is ancient and obsolete. In my congregation, whenever I give a sermon that touches on the weekly portion and contemporary events, the audience no longer marvels at how relevant the Torah is in our generation. It is a regular occurrence and now presumed by my listeners to be so. Clearly, the Torah is anything but obsolete. It talks to us in the uncanniest ways. This week’s Torah reading contains a passage that bothered me for many years. It hasn’t i
‘Justice, justice’ … why all the repetition? (opens the original)
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How many times were you told by your grandmother not to leave food on your plate? How often did you hear, “Do you know there are children starving in (fill in blank)?” And then, we’d feel guilty for the rest of the week. Well, the Torah has the same policy about words—nothing gets left over, nothing gets wasted, not a single word. And if a word shows up twice, you can be sure that Moses didn’t just repeat it because he forgot he had already said it. So here’s our verse from this week’s Torah rea
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