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From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life

Temple Emanuel in Newton

Bringing weekly Jewish insights into your life. Join Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz, Rabbi Michelle Robinson and Rav-Hazzan Aliza Berger of Temple Emanuel in Newton, MA as they share modern ancient wisdom.

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00:15:47

Shabbat Sermon: Understanding the Death of Yahya...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/19

How are we to understand the death of the leader of Hamas, and the mastermind and architect of October 7, Yahya Sinwar? Does his death mean that an end to the war, and the beginning of the day after, is closer? Or should Israel’s military continue the fight? What will Sinwar’s death mean for our hostages? These questions are hugely important and above my pay grade. Our question this morning is how do Jewish values help us interpret this moment?

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00:10:20

Sukkot Sermon with Rabbi Michelle Robinson

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/18

Sukkot October 18, 2024

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00:11:00

Sukkot Sermon: Bird! with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/17

When I was growing up, we spent a lot of time with my Grandpa Gene feeding the geese. My Mom kept a 50 lb. bag of birdseed in the car, and, even when Sir Grandfather, as he liked to be called, was not feeling well, we would drive to the pond, and he would sit and watch from the front seat as we tossed out birdseed to grateful honks. My grandfather also had this superpower. He could spot any flock of birds in the sky and would just know exactly the number of birds in an instant. He would look up and

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00:16:39

Yom Kippur Sermon: Pristine Pillows with Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/12

October 12, 2024

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00:18:33

Yom Kippur Sermon: Finding Hope When Hope is Gone...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/12

One quiet Shabbat morning in August, a long-time member comes in and says, Rabbi, I turn 93 today. Can I have an Aliyah? I said of course. We’d love to give you an Aliyah. Just want you to know one thing. You are a youngster. A youngster? I’m turning 93 today. How is that a youngster? I pointed in the direction of a woman who was sitting with her children, grandchildren and extended mishpacha. I said we are doing an Aliyah today for that woman surrounded by her family because she just turned

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00:18:44

Kol Nidre Sermon: Situational Anxiety with Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/12

October 11, 2024

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00:18:47

Shabbat Sermon: A God We Can Believe In After October...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/05

Rabbi David Wolpe tells a classic story of speaking to a group of American Jews in Tulsa, Oklahoma at their JCC about God. He was trying to make the case that God loves them. But he could see that his words were not resonating. Being the seasoned speaker that he is, he decided to take a bit of a gamble. He stopped his prepared remarks and said: If you think God loves you, please rise. In the entire large amphitheater which sat hundreds of people, exactly one person stood up. So Rabbi Wolpe

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00:56:36

Talmud Class: Michael Bohnen Teaching the Poems of...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/05

As the horrors of October 7th were unfolding, a common reaction was “ein milim,” no words. But it is not surprising that Hebrew poetry soon appeared that gave expression to the nation’s raw feelings and emotions. Our teacher Rachel Korazim, our member Michael Bohnen and Heather Silverman of California have recently published a moving anthology of those poems which they have translated to English. Their book, Shiva: Poems of October 7, is available on Amazon, and all royalties go to the Israel

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00:16:40

Rosh Hashanah Day II Sermon: When Archery is Not Your...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/04

Years ago, I was talking with our preschool learners, 3- and 4-year-olds, about God. Not sure what I was thinking that day. I was a young rabbi, fresh out of the Seminary. So I turned to very young learners and asked: have you ever seen God? As you might predict, it did not go well. There was a long, awkward silence. Nobody raised their hand. Nobody said a word. I did not know how to get out of this jam. And then mercifully one child at last, sheepishly, raised her hand. I have seen God, she

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00:16:50

Rosh Hashanah Day I Sermon: NPC with Rabbi Michelle...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/03

October 3, 2024

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00:22:23

Rosh Hashanah Day I Sermon: Rock of Israel with Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/10/03

One fine August night, after I got home from evening minyan, I picked up the phone and called my sister Beth, who lives in Los Angeles, just to check in. Beth shared that one of her summer projects was to feng shui their house that she and her family had lived in for 50 years. Just that afternoon she was working on the closet in her bedroom, one bag for goodwill, one bag for garbage, when she came upon a box in the bottom of her closet that she had not seen in years. She did not even remember

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00:15:06

Shabbat Sermon: Blue's Clues with Rav Hazzan Aliza...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/09/28

What do we do when the way we feel on the inside doesn’t match what we feel we have to project on the outside? Or even more generally, what do we do when our insides don’t match our outsides?I was thinking about this recently as I was reading a fascinating New York Times interview with Steve Burns, the actor on Blue’s Clues. If you weren’t tuned into preschool television in the late 90s and early 2000s, Blues Clues was a show on Nickelodeon wherein the host, Steve Burns, invited little kids to help

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00:39:07

Talmud Class: 10 Glorious Principles from Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/09/28

“The unexamined life, a philosopher said, is not worth living. No one who has genuinely experienced Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur lives an unexamined life.” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Introduction to The Koren Rosh Hashanah Mahzor (2011) This coming Shabbat is our last Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah. Our tradition bids us that we prepare ourselves for the Days of Awe by hearing the shofar every weekday morning, by reciting Psalm 27 every morning and every evening, and by attending Selikhot Saturday night

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01:00:35

Tablets Shattered: A Conversation with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/09/24

In late August Joshua Leifer, author of Tablets Shattered, was going to be in dialogue about his new book with a local Brooklyn rabbi. They were infamously banned from the bookstore because they are Zionists. While the employee who tossed them was fired, it is sobering that in America, in New York, in August of 2024, an author could get banned for believing that the Jewish people have a right to a homeland. The day that Josh Leifer was banned by the bookstore I called him. His mother and Shira

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00:11:45

Shabbat Sermon: Put Them Into a Story with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/09/21

This morning has been so beautiful. And an example of life imitating art. The prophet Isaiah talks about a great light shining. Ari and Zoe talked about that light. And they embody that light. Our bride and groom, Beth and Adam, and their parents Marlene and Errol, may he rest in peace, and Cindy and Jon, embody that light. We know what to do with this light and this simcha: savor it, feel it deeply, do not let it go unappreciated. This morning reminds me of a conversation I recently had with a

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00:35:41

Talmud Class: What is Your Life Story, and What...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/09/21

In How to Know a Person, David Brooks devotes an entire chapter to what he calls life stories. https://files.constantcontact.com/d3875897501/1021ea46-026b-4259-9de3-6f87a6cefd69.pdf?rdr=true "Coming up with a personal story is centrally important to leading a meaningful life. You can’t know who you are unless you know how to tell your story. You can’t have a stable identity unless you take the inchoate events of your life and give your life meaning by turning the events into a coherent

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00:17:26

Shabbat Sermon: Love and Complexity with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/09/14

Last Sunday evening Shira and I were in Lakewood, New Jersey for a wedding. Lakewood is the capital of the charedi, or ultra-Orthodox, world in America. Lakewood boasts a world-famous charedi yeshiva called Beth Medrash Govoha which is the second largest yeshiva in the world, second only to the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. The wedding was charedi. Men and women sat separately during the wedding. Men and women danced separately after the wedding. There was a thick wall separating the men and women

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00:39:26

Talmud Class: What Does Elkanah Teach us About How to...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/09/14

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, we encounter the well-meaning words of a loving husband whose consolation of his very sad wife did not work. Hannah could not get pregnant. Her husband Elkanah’s other wife Peninnah got pregnant easily and, the text notes twice, would taunt Hannah for her inability to conceive. https://files.constantcontact.com/d3875897501/3774939d-786f-4595-b167-b4fcafa95e06.pdf?rdr=true This happened year after year: Every time she [Hannah] went up to the House of the Lord, the

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00:15:35

Shabbat Sermon: How Do We Keep Clean and Pristine...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/08/31

I have a question for you this morning. How do we keep clean and pristine things clean and pristine? Imagine that in your home, in your living room, you have a sofa. The sofa is clean and pristine. The sofa is white. How do you keep your white sofa white? How do you think about inviting a family for dinner that has, say, a four-child old child? Let’s further stipulate that that four-year old child loves chocolate and has chocolaty fingers. How do you think about the prospect of those chocolaty

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00:12:07

Shabbat Sermon: You Had Me At Hello with Rav Hazzan...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/08/24

Our ice maker in our fridge broke again. I called the service line. You know the drill: obnoxious faux classical music, repeated robotic recordings, “we care about your business and will answer your call as soon as possible. Please stay on the line.” Finally my call was answered by a woman who said her name was Jennifer and sounded like she was answering from South Asia. I told her our ice maker saga and once she had gotten all the information, she sai,d “thank you ma’am, I just submitted this

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