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Thoughts from Rabbi Seth Adelson, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh
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But Wait! There’s More! - Sukkot 5787 (opens the original)
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I’m always struck by people who see me on the day after Yom Kippur and say, “Rabbi, you must be so happy that the holidays are over!” And I grin and say, “Of course. Thank you!”Subscribe nowBut you and I know better; while I spend many weeks in preparation for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, often the four days between Yom Kippur and Sukkot are even more stressful. I have to build and decorate my sukkah, I have to write at least one sermon and prepare for a small
Judaism is Not in Theory: Modernity - What’s On YOUR Bookshelf? Vol. 4 (opens the original)
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NOTE: This is the fourth and final installment of my High Holiday sermon series for 5787, you may want to read the other three before this:Subscribe nowNow, Volume 4:There is a phenomenon of which I want you to be aware.People drop off their Jewish books at Congregation Beth Shalom all the time. I rarely have the opportunity to ask any of the
Responding to Antisemitism With Torah: The Medieval Greats - What’s On YOUR Bookshelf? Vol. 3 (opens the original)
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As this is the third installment in my High Holiday sermon series for 5787, you may want to read the first two before this:Subscribe nowAs I hope you know by now, our High Holiday theme this year is the Jewish bookshelf, and we have finally reached the 11th century! The middle of the Middle Ages. Some of the most important characters of Jewish intellectual history, people who continue to shape Jewish thought to this day
Judaism’s Ruby Slippers: Talmud - What’s on YOUR bookshelf? Vol. 2 (opens the original)
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(If you have not read Foundation and Starting Point: Torah, from the first day of Rosh HaShanah, you might want to start there.)Subscribe nowI’m beginning today with cataclysm, and ending with survival.It’s a great classic story arc. Consider The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, wherein her life seems to be destroyed by a
Foundation and Starting Point: Torah - What’s on YOUR Bookshelf? Vol. 1 (opens the original)
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Before I met my wife, she bought a Tanakh, a copy of the Hebrew Bible.Judy grew up in New York as what observers of Jewish life call “unaffiliated.” She was the daughter of two Shoah survivors; her father was taken at age 19 from his tiny Slovakian town to Auschwitz, and her mother managed the war in hiding in Budapest. Judy did not receive any formal Jewish education, but she was always curious about Judaism. Her mother took her to see every Holocaust movie ever made, and her exposure to Jewish
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