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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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00:18:55

Shabbat Sermon: Engaging the Darkness Without...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/02

This morning has been so beautiful, so joyful, just what we needed. Daniel’s Bar Mitzvah. Eli’s Bar Mitzvah. Ronna’s birthday. Elizabeth’s naming, three generations of love. And the reason it is especially joyful is that things have been so dark. Eight weeks of war later, with no clear end in sight, we don’t know when it’s going to end, we don’t know how it’s going to end, it’s dark. What the hostages who have been freed have reported about their captivity, what they had to endure, is dark. The

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00:42:31

Talmud Class: Jacob's Tattered Envelope - and Our Own

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/12/02

An envelope structure is a great way to tell a story. The story begins with a place, an event, a memorable moment. Stuff happens. The plot unfolds. And the story ends back at the same place or a newer, deeper version of the same event or memorable moment. A classic example of an envelope structure is God, Jacob, and Bethel. Last week’s reading: At the beginning of Jacob’s dangerous journey, when he is alone and vulnerable, God promises to be with him, to protect him, and not to leave him until he

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00:21:56

Shabbat Sermon with Lishi Baker

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/25

We hear a lot these days about “the college campus,” and I just want to note, it is important to remember that every student is different and every student is experiencing his or her campus differently. I don’t speak for all college students, perhaps not even most, and what I’ll share today is my perspective based on my experience. I strongly encourage you to continue to talk to other college students you know – ask them how they have responded to their unique campus climates, and what they have

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00:47:32

Talmud Class: Is God Relevant?

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/25

How do we understand the double absence of God since October 7? The first absence is obvious: where was God when Hamas butchered, maimed, kidnapped, and performed unspeakable atrocities upon the innocent? Not there. The second absence is less obvious but still noteworthy: in the countless articles, podcasts, and conversations, we hear very little about God. Yes, we recite psalms every day. Psalms are poetry about God. Yes, we recite a prayer for the IDF and for the hostages every day, and we pray

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00:29:07

Shabbat Sermon: What to do about the State of Judaism...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/18

The State of Israel has a religious establishment that is totally out of touch with most Israelis and a school system which does not teach Judaism. What can be done about this dual problem?

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00:56:21

Talmud Class: Rabbi David Golinkin on Israel at War

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/18

This is a Talmud class like no other for a moment like no other. One short story encapsulates the moment. There are tragically so many moments like it. On Sunday, Shira was speaking with her brother Ari and sister-in-law Tziporit who live in Jerusalem. They had just returned from the funeral of a close friend who was a member of their shul in Jerusalem. This man was 44. He had aged out of being required to do miluim. He could have taken a pass. He could have opted out. He is married and has five

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00:21:10

Shabbat Sermon: When Parents and Children Disagree...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/11

This morning I want to tackle a question that is granular, sensitive, painful, common—and coming soon to a Thanksgiving table near you. What do we do when different generations in our family disagree, passionately, about Israel? This is not a new question. It is an old question. What is new is the urgency of the question in light of the massacre of October 7, and Israel’s ongoing response in the weeks since. If this war continues to be protracted, if both Gaza civilians and Israeli soldiers

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00:47:44

Talmud Class: How Does This Chapter Compare?

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/11

About the daily stories of rising anti-Semitism, two questions. First question: How does this current chapter compare to previous chapters? The Haggadah contains the famous passage vehei she’amdah: This promise has stood us and our parents in good stead. For not only has one enemy stood over us to annihilate us. But in every generation enemies have stood over us to annihilate us. Yet the Holy One keeps the promise to save us from their hands. Take a look at the one-page

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00:15:25

Shabbat Sermon: 2023? with Rabbi Michelle Robinson

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/04

November 4, 2023

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00:50:16

Talmud Class: Moshe Dayan's Hard Words in 1956,...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/11/04

All of us worry about the courageous soldiers of the IDF going into the alleys and tunnels of Gaza. It fills us all with deep dread. The ground invasion, and what it will mean to Israeli soldiers, has resurfaced a very important text in Israeli history, Moshe Dayan's brief remarks at the funeral of an officer named Roy Rotenberg who was murdered in 1956 patrolling the Israeli-Gaza border in the same area where more Israelis were murdered on October 7. Dayan's brief speech is called

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00:10:58

Shabbat Sermon: Hope - What Poland’s Jewish Rebirth...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/31

October 28, 2023 Jonathan is the CEO of the JCC in Krakow Podland

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00:46:02

Talmud Class: Do the Two Psalms We Say Every Morning...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/28

Elie Wiesel talked about madness descending on Europe in the 1930s. Cultured, urbane, sophisticated Germans who loved opera and philosophy, and who were nice to their dogs and cats, warmed to the Nazis. A similar madness is descending on American college campuses and universities today. It is madness because throngs of students feel that Israel is an apartheid regime; that it is morally always in the wrong; that Hamas was justified in doing what it did; and therefore, these undergrads and graduate

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00:23:07

Shabbat Sermon: The Paradox of Forever Love with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/21

I would like to start with something lovely, the most beautiful words in the world: I love you forever. Think of the people and places that have inspired these magical words. I have a question. How long is forever? How long do we get to keep who and what we love forever? This past Monday, our beloved friend and teacher in Jerusalem, Micah Goodman, was speaking to 100 Conservative Rabbis about what is going on in Israel, and he said something about forever

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00:52:10

Talmud Class: What Does the Coda to the Noah Story...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/21

The weekly Torah portion always speaks to our world, but never more so than now. The word hamas is in the third verse of the portion. The presence of hamas spells the ruination, death, destruction of the entire world. "The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness (hamas)." Genesis 6:11 In his JPS Commentary on Genesis, Nahum Sarna observes “hamas here refers predominantly to the arrogant disregard for the sanctity and inviolability of human life.” A

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00:16:05

Shabbat Sermon: Our Golda Moment with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/14

How many of you have seen the play or the movie Golda’s Balcony? If you have, you know about that powerful moment, early in her career for Israel, she is Golda Meyerson at the time, it is January, 1948, it is three years after the Shoah, it is five months before Israel’s independence would be declared and the war for independence would start, and Golda is with American Jews, at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations, held in Chicago on January 21. Her mission was to inspire American Jews to

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00:50:04

Talmud Class: Israel at War and the Challenge of Hate

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/14

At the rally for Israel on Monday at the Boston Commons, there were two clarifying moments. When Senator Markey called for de-escalation, he was loudly and roundly booed. When Congressman Auchincloss observed that Israel did not ask America to de-escalate on 9/12, he was loudly and roundly cheered. What is that about? Last Shabbat was the worst day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. This week is the worst week for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. The prayer we say about Nazis on Yom

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00:42:25

Talmud Class: Does the Last Chapter of the Torah...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/07

The last chapter of any book is critical to understanding the meaning of the book. The last chapter of the Torah, Deuteronomy 34, which we encounter this weekend on Simchat Torah, is in several ways a surprising last chapter, given the book as a whole. The Torah is supposed to be about life. Choose life. But Deuteronomy 34 is about death. Why end with death when the book is supposed to be about life? Why does Moses have to die on the wrong side of the River Jordan? Why does God command Moses to

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00:08:37

Sukkot Day 2 Sermon: We're Keeping the Etrog Tree...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/10/01

October 1, 2023

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00:18:05

Sukkot Day 1 Sermon: Would You Rather Be a Supreme...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/30

I have two classmates from the Harvard Law School class of 1986 who are extraordinarily famous. World famous, but for different reasons. One of them, Elana Kagan, is a Justice on the United States Supreme Court. She just made news recently because she has argued that the nine justices of the Supreme Court should be held accountable for their ethical practices, and that power without accountability is not a healthy combination in a democracy. The other of them, Kenneth Chesebro, made news recently

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00:55:48

Talmud Class: "I Don't Do Pessimism" Our Posture?...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/30

In his final podcast of 'For Heaven’s Sake' for the year 5783, entitled “Farewell 5783,” Donniel Hartman said something that really stuck with me. He said: “I don’t do pessimism.” Despite all the drama and tension in Israel, the many articles and voices talking about how the country is deeply divided, how this is the greatest domestic crisis in Israel’s 75 years, a cold civil war, Donniel does not do pessimism. He goes to demonstrations every week; learns; teaches; advocates; gives

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