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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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00:42:55

Talmud Class: Unpacking Our Israel Mitzvah Mission

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/02/24

The Temple Emanuel 50-person mitzvah mission to Israel last week experienced the confusing reality that diametrically contradictory truths can both be true.Normal or not normal? Is Israel a nation in mourning, as Rachel Korazim taught? Or is Israel getting past October 7, not in mourning, trying to live a normal life, as Donniel Hartman taught? Yes, and yes. Returning the hostages? Is it absolutely essential that Israel do everything possible to bring the hostages home? Or will it undermine the

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00:17:21

Shabbat Sermon: Turn the Lights Back On with Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/02/17

February 17, 2024

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00:28:57

Neurodivergent Torah: A Celebration of Autistic...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/02/10

This Shabbat, I’m going to share a personal story very different from the kinds of sermons I used to give when I worked in a congregation. I want to be clear it is my story. I recognize that in this room there are Autistic people and family members who have their own perspectives that may differ from mine. They are just as important and valid. We are a large and diverse community. Three years ago, a neuropsychologist assessed our then 3-year-old son and called a few weeks later to tell us that was

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00:37:21

Talmud Class: Saying Yes When We Don't Have the...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/02/10

Have you ever said yes to a commitment without knowing what that yes would mean to your life? If you have taken a new job, moved to a new city, gotten married, had children, or nurtured a loved one through a rough patch, you have said this type of yes. The address for saying yes without knowing what yes means is the famous phrase “na’aseh v’nishmah” in Ex. 24:7 in our reading this week. That is what the Israelites say after receiving the Torah at Sinai and then the supplemental civil and cultic

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00:34:45

A Conversation with Annette Miller

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/02/07

Rabbi Michelle Robinson sits down with Annette Miller to discuss her role as Golda Meir in 'Golda's Balcony,' a play opening in Boston on February 23. They discuss inhabiting the iconic figure and what her legacy can tell us about the events of today.

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00:46:50

Talmud Class: Transformation

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/02/03

The holy grail in Jewish education is “transformational.” An Israel trip like Birthright or any of our Passport experiences are supposed to be “transformational.” Going to any of our wonderful day schools is supposed to be “transformational.” Jewish summer camp--24-7 immersion, lifelong friends--is supposed to be “transformational.” The idea of a “transformational” experience is that the person is different on the other end. But the two big salvation stories in Exodus suggest that

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00:17:06

Am Yisrael Chai with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/27

January 27, 2024

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00:34:21

Talmud Class: Should the Jewish People Lower our...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/27

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Mark Twain I think of the Mark Twain quote whenever I ponder a signature piece of wisdom of my late mother that I resisted as a teen, but that I agree with as an adult. My mother used to say: “Lower your expectations.” My mother’s rationale: If we go through life with high expectations, there is a higher

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00:19:00

Shabbat Sermon: Brothers and Sisters with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/20

I have been thinking a lot about something that many of us—not all, but many—have in common: brothers and sisters. I have been in a deep brother and sister place this week for two reasons. I am the youngest of six children. My five older siblings live in different places. Two live in Los Angeles, one in New Jersey, one in Denver, and my sister Jill and I live in Newton. This past Monday night, for a brief, incredibly sweet, totally-to-be-cherished nano second, we were all in the same place

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00:38:19

Talmud Class: Three Stories About Trees

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/20

There is a Jewish holiday that few know, Tu B’Shevat, the new year of trees, celebrated next Wednesday night and Thursday, January 24-25. If Passover is the most broadly observed holiday, Tu B’Shevat is among the least observed—a holiday about trees in the dead of winter. To prepare ourselves for the holiday next week, we are going to study three stories about trees: A story about a tired and thirsty traveler who is nourished and renewed by a tree’s shade and fruit and gratefully offers the tree

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00:13:55

Shabbat Sermon: Meeting Change with Rabbi Michelle...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/13

January 13, 2024

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00:39:35

Talmud Class: Signs and Wonders That We Can Believe In

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/13

Our reading this week, parshat va’era, features otot u’moftim, signs and wonders, that are intended to persuade Pharaoh of God’s power and therefore that he should let the Israelites go. The problem is, while the signs and wonders are indeed powerful-- a rod turning into a snake, the Nile turning into blood, millions of frogs jumping up and down--the signs and wonders do not succeed in their appointed task: Pharaoh remains unconvinced. Our reading reminds us that signs and wonders do not work. In

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00:16:40

Shabbat Sermon: When We Feel Weariness with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/06

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a screen shot I saw this week conveys a truth that we need to reckon with. The screen shot shows the different realities of New York City and Israel on New Year’s Eve. New York: fireworks. Israel: taking fire, the glare of missiles and rockets that Hamas still manages to fire into Israel. New York: people on the streets, reveling, counting down in anticipation, 5-4-3-2-1, Happy New Year! Israel, another night in the bomb shelter? What do we do with

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00:41:13

Talmud Class: Wisdom - What Does It Look Like, and...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2024/01/06

Wisdom. We could all use it now. Many of us had hoped and prayed for a better 2024, a happier 2024, a more peaceful 2024. But now that we are in 2024, we are faced with the same stubborn challenges of 2023, deepened. The election cycle in America. The ongoing war in Israel and Gaza and the simmering threat of war with Hezbollah. Ongoing tensions on our college campuses, including one five miles from Temple Emanuel. In the face of all this complexity, what might wisdom look like, and where could we

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00:24:30

Shabbat Sermon: God’s Afikomen - Hidden Messages in...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/30

A member of TE, Dr. Heller is a respected member of the Hebrew College MEAH Bible faculty and has taught many courses at TE. Dr. Heller combines her passion for biblical text with her academic background in Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature and holds a Ph.D. from NYU.

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00:10:12

Shabbat Sermon: A Christmas Story with Rav Hazzan...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/23

My grandfather was a curmudgeon, especially this time of year. He would start to get grumpy mid-November, when Christmas lights started going up around town and his mood would really sour after Thanksgiving when retailers began blasting Christmas carols. Then a simple trip to the grocery store would send him muttering angrily under his breath up and down the aisles and then all the way home. His mood wouldn’t improve until February when the last decorations were finally packed away. I never fully

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00:17:07

Shabbat Sermon: Maestro with Rabbi Michelle Robinson

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/16

With Rabbi Michelle Robinson

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00:41:13

Talmud Class: The October 7 Kaddish, the Holocaust...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/16

The prayer life of the Jewish people gives voice to contradiction and dissonance. On the one hand, all week long we have been singing Hallel, in which we acclaim how God saves us: I called on Adonai; I prayed that God would save me.... God has delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I shall walk before Adonai in the land of the living. On the other hand, a poem by Israeli Asaf Gur, called Kadish, offers a different reality.

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00:13:16

Shabbat Sermon: Fight for your Heart with Rav Hazzan...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/09

Ever since October 7, I have been living in an anxiety-filled, doom-driven stupor. All day, from the moment I wake up until I go to bed at night, I check my news apps compulsively and obsessively, worried that there will be some new development that will rock my world the way that horrible attack did. At night, I delve deeper. I doom scroll. I read every new article I can find. I search for stories and testimonies I haven’t read yet. We sleep-trained the baby, so now he mostly sleeps through the

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00:43:52

Talmud Class: How Has October 7 Changed the Project...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/09

Before October 7, our children were blessed to live in a world where their Jewish commitments were not an obstacle to making friends or fulfilling their dreams. Yes, there has always been some anti-Semitism. But for the most part, our kids could be who they were, without hiding anything. Our job was to inspire them to give voice to all parts of themselves: their love of sports; music; drama; dance; and their Jewish lives. You can do soccer and you can do Judaism. It’s an and. That task now feels

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