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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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00:38:05

Talmud Class: Icarus and Us

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/09/06

Icarus has so much to say to us now, a few weeks before Rosh Hashanah.According to Greek mythology, Icarus flew too close to the sun with wings made of feather and wax. The sun’s heat melted the wax, and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned.In 1560, the Netherlandish master Peter Bruegel the Elder painted a masterpiece entitled Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. This painting is now displayed in a museum in Brussels. The title is so evocative. To Icarus, no story was more important than Icarus. To

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00:12:51

Shabbat Sermon: Love That Sticks with Rabbi Michelle...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/08/30

August 30, 2025

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00:15:22

Shabbat Sermon with Guest Speaker Rabbi Jamie Kotler

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/08/23

Inheritance – A Personal Journey of Discovery and Choice. We have no control over what we are bequeathed. Or do we?Rabbi Jamie Kotler teaches Torah and Jewish texts at synagogue communities in the Boston area and beyond. She has served as chaplain at Fireman House (Hebrew Senior Life), and has served on the Boards of The Rashi School, and Mayyim Hayyim, and on the building committee for Newbridge on the Charles at Hebrew Senior Life.Rabbi Kotler grew up in Brazil and Mexico, the daughter of

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00:19:19

Shabbat Sermon with Guest Speaker Rabbi Rachel Silverman

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/08/16

Rabbi Rachel Silverman (she/her) first joined the Camp Ramah New England staff as a Rosh Edah (unit head) at the overnight camp from 2005-2010. Many years later, she’s thrilled to be back as the Director of Ramah Boston, our newest day camp. Rabbi Silverman previously served as a congregational rabbi in both Brookline and Sharon, MA, after receiving her ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2010. When she is not at camp, she is a ceramic artist and enjoys biking, cooking, and gardening

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00:13:15

Shabbat Sermon with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/08/08

August 8, 2025

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00:20:21

Shabbat Sermon: Tag You're It with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/08/02

On January 15, 1997, Princess Diana walked through a minefield in Angola.The background for her walk was the civil war in Angola that raged for 27 years, from 1975 through 2002, which meant that she was walking through a minefield while the war was still going on. When Angola secured its independence from Portugal, a civil war broke out between a Communist faction supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and an anti-Communist faction supported by the United States. The war was not only long but

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00:19:05

Shabbat Sermon: The Curious Case of...Curiosity with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/07/26

I’m sure you’re familiar with the saying: “curiosity killed the cat.” We say it when curiosity leads us down an unproductive or even dangerous path. However, in a fascinating interview with Professor Tal ben Shahar, an expert in the field of positive psychology, he offers this wonderful line: “curiosity might have killed the cat, but it keeps us alive.” Curiosity, says this prominent researcher, is one of the great secrets of happiness. It ensures that even when we’re alone, we’re not bored. But

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00:12:03

Shabbat Sermon: The Tooth Fairy with Rav Hazzan Aliza...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/07/19

July 19, 2025The most amazing article appeared in the New York Times this week titled “The Tooth Fairy is Real. She’s a Dentist in Seattle.” No seriously, I am not making this up. Apparently twenty years ago, when Purva Merchant was applying for dental school, her boyfriend set up an email account for her using her nickname “the tooth fairy.” Ever since, she has received somewhere between three to five emails per day from desperate parents and adorable, sometimes disbelieving children. And she has

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00:15:30

Shabbat Sermon: The Deepest Love with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/07/12

When she was six years old, Erin Paisan fell in love not only with Camp Mystic in the Hill Country of Texas. She specifically fell in love with the Guadalupe River, which was the life force, the energy, the joy, of Camp Mystic. Decades later she still remembers with perfect clarity the very moment when she fell in love with the river. As she told the story to the New York Times Daily host Michael Barbaro, she and her mother were picking up her brother from a nearby camp. Six-year-old Erin saw the

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00:14:15

Shabbat Sermon with Rabbi Michelle Robinson

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/07/05

July 5, 2025

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00:13:43

Shabbat Sermon with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/06/28

June 28, 2025

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00:11:09

Shabbat Sermon: Both/And: Being a Proud Queer Zionist...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/06/21

AJ Helman (they/them/theirs) is an educator and artist with a focus on Jewish and LGBTQ+ theater and education. After graduating from Emerson College with a BFA in Theater Education and Performance, AJ remained in Boston, working in the local theater and film industries as both an artist and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion liaison. As part of their activism and educator work, they facilitated workshops on gender diversity in theater and spearheaded better inclusion practices for transgender

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00:18:56

Shabbat Sermon: Goats Are Us with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz

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2025/06/14

How did you sleep on Thursday night? When I first learned that Israel’s war with Iran had begun in earnest, I, like so many of you, did not sleep much at all. Because of the 7-hour time difference between Boston and Israel, in the early hours of Friday morning I was able to reach Micah Goodman, our beloved teacher and friend who lives in Kfar Adumim, twenty minutes outside of Jerusalem. What Micah had to say was both inspiring and concerning at the same time.First the inspiring part. Micah shared

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00:42:30

Talmud Class: Israel's War With Iran

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/06/14

I called my brother-in-law Ari this morning in Jerusalem. He and his family spent the night in their bunker. Two of their sons have been mobilized yet again. He shared one story that speaks to this moment.This morning (Friday is typically a day off for many Israelis, kind of like our Sunday, though it is spent getting ready for Shabbat) a friend of theirs has a daughter who was go get married. She had a dress. She had a groom. She had a venue. She had a guest list. She had a caterer. She had a

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00:12:46

Shabbat Sermon with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/06/07

June 7, 2025

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00:42:33

Talmud Class: If an Old Era Were to End, and a Scary...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/06/07

How do we know when an old era ends? How do we know when a new era begins? Is that happening to us now? Do we now live in an era where we might be going about an ordinary day and be attacked becausewe are Jewish, the attacker shouting “Free Palestine.” It happened in Pennsylvania to the Governor of the State. While Governor Josh Shapiro, his wife Lori, their four children, two dogs, and another family were inside their home, their home was firebombed on April 13, hours after the family had hosted a

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00:10:24

Shavuot Sermon: Post-Its and the Power of Memory with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/06/03

June 3, 2025

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00:58:42

Shavuot Keynote Speaker: Beyond all Consolation: A...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/06/01

Beyond all Consolation: A Jewish Philosophy of Redemption and TragedyRabbi Jason Rubenstein joined Harvard Hillel as Executive Director on June 1, 2024 after six years as the Howard M. Holtzman Jewish Chaplain at Yale. Jason’s background is as diverse as Harvard’s Jewish community: a childhood at Temple Micah in Washington DC, formative years studying at Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa in northern Israel, and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. From 2010-2018, Jason taught on the

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00:13:59

Shabbat Sermon: Jane Austen Did Not Wreck My Life...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/05/31

I am not a huge fan of rom coms. But there was one rom com I just had to see the minute I heard about it. I was drawn to its title. Its title was irresistible. Its title conveyed the central problem in the Book of Numbers. Its title conveyed one of the central challenges in our own lives. The title of this rom com is Jane Austen Wrecked My Life.Jane Austen wrecked my life. Let’s dwell on that. Some other person wrecked my life. Some external person or event or disappointment wrecked my life. If my

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00:43:50

Talmud Class: Can We Ever Be At Peace With Our Own...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/05/31

The Talmud has a famous story from Menachot 29B that invites us to confront three hard truths that we would rather not think about. Our mortality. The limited reach of our legacy. And the unredeemed nature of our world—we will live, and we will pass, with the world’s big problems unsolved. Why this story now? It is Erev Shavuot, the eve of our receiving the Torah. This story is about the nature of Torah; our life and legacy; and the relationship between our Torah, our life, our legacy and the

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