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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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00:18:56

Yom Kippur Sermon: Next, Next! Now, Now! with Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/24

A writer named Robert Hubbell is not Jewish. He and his wife are both observant Catholics. But earlier this year he wrote an essay entitled “My Kippah” about the fact that one of his most cherished possessions is a kippah. He did not know any Jews growing up. One of the first Jewish people he ever got to know was a law school classmate, a woman who became a fast platonic friend and study partner. After they graduated from law school, their friendship continued, and Robert Hubbell and his wife

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00:17:12

Yom Kippur Sermon: When the Dragons are Not Small...

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2023/09/23

September 25, 2023

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00:13:40

Shabbat Sermon: Distance Travelled with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/23

Every August there is a show called Hard Knocks about the training camp of an NFL football team. This year the show focused on the New York Jets because of their new quarterback Aaron Rodgers. If you are not a football fan, Aaron Rodgers was a legendary quarterback of the Green Bay Packers where he won both a Super Bowl and the Most Valuable Player of the league four times—two times in the last three years. Rodgers was thought to be the missing piece that would help the New York Jets

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00:31:09

Talmud Class: Is the Peretz Story an Adequate...

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2023/09/23

For our Talmud class this week, we read the classic short story If Not Higher, written by the Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz (1852-1915). Dr. Stephen Greenblatt, a proud alum of the Temple Emanuel Hebrew School, and a University Professor at Harvard, where he is the world’s preeminent Shakespeare scholar, teaches us If Not Higher before Neilah on Monday night. As you read this story, consider these questions: What is the theory of goodness, decency, menschlikeit that the rabbi in the story

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00:20:38

Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sermon: What’s Your Cathedral?...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/17

There is an old joke about a mother who wakes up her son and says: Honey, you have to get up. It’s time to go to shul. The son resists. I don’t want to go to shul. I want to sleep. Honey, you have to go to shul. I don’t want to go to shul. I want to sleep. You can’t sleep. You have to go to shul. Give me one good reason. Give you one good reason? What about: you’re the rabbi! What do we do about the things we don’t want to do? It’s easy to respond to the things we

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00:18:56

Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon: When I Was Younger with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/16

One of my closest friends tells of an impish childhood. Facing his parents’ discipline, whether after a homework assignment not turned in, a skirmish with his sister, or a fly-ball through the living room window, they would ask him, “How did this happen? Did you do this?” To which he would reply, “Yes – but that was when I was younger.” We sometimes tease about that mantra, adorably employed to excuse any error, no matter how recent. We test its range: “You’re right,” I might say, “I was texting

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00:16:21

Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon: Unstuck with Rabbi Wes...

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2023/09/16

On March 18, 1980, a young historian named Marty Sherwin, then age 43, signed a contract with Knopf publishing to write a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb. When Marty Sherwin signed the deal, both he and the publishing house expected that it would be a five-year project. He was to get paid $70,000, $35,000 up front, and the remainder five years later when the book was to have been completed. But, famously, five years later, he had

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00:15:52

Shabbat Sermon: The Lottery Ticket That Wins Every...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/09

The story is told of a man named Harry whose business had fallen on hard times. He goes to shul and prays: God, I don’t often ask you for things, but my business is failing, and I need a miracle now. Please help me win the lottery. The lottery happens, and he doesn’t win. He is feeling the financial squeeze. If he doesn’t get help soon, he might lose his house. So off he goes to shul and prays: God, my business is going belly up, I don’t want to lose my house. Please help me win the lottery.

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00:45:01

Talmud Class: What, If Anything, Do We Have to...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/09/09

“In this house we believe that…” American lawn signs confidently proclaim that the members of this house all believe the same things: and the sign then lists the tenets that the members of the home all believe. These lawn signs cover a wide gamut of political convictions. All of which made me wonder: what, if anything, do we have to believe to be considered a good Jew? This is particularly vexing because we famously disagree, two Jews, three opinions. And what happens if we don’t believe, or

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00:13:58

Shabbat Sermon: Quit Sooner with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger

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2023/09/02

Recently I’ve become obsessed with the reality show Alone. The premise is that 10 survivalists are dropped in the wilds of Alaska or Patagonia or Mongolia with only the clothes on their back, 10 tools, and camera gear to document their experiences. It’s wild to watch. They build primitive shelters and hunt with bows and arrows. There is a lot of ingenuity, but there is also a lot of suffering. A lot of shivering through cold nights, a lot of hunger, a lot of loneliness. And what’s so interesting

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00:22:38

Shabbat Sermon: Hitting the Ever-Moving Target of...

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2023/08/26

It seems the goal-post of how we reach and teach the next generation is always moving. As parents, grandparents, educators, and a community who cares, how do we get it right? How can we move the next generation toward an indelible connection to Judaism now and for generations to come? Rabbi Ravid Tilles has been the Director of Jewish Life and Learning at Schechter Boston since 2017. Schechter Boston is a Jewish Day School in Newton for students from 15 months to 8th grade. He and his family are

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00:14:10

Shabbat Sermon: Wisdom of the Moving Cart with Rabbi...

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2023/08/19

August 19, 2023

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00:15:26

Shabbat Sermon: Generations with Rabbi Michelle Robinson

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2023/08/12

August 12, 2023

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00:15:07

Shabbat Sermon: Barbie & Beyond with Rabbi Michelle...

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2023/08/05

August 5, 2023

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00:20:39

Shabbat Sermon: Is There Hope? with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/07/29

Why was this Tisha B’av different from all other Tisha B’avs? On all other Tisha B’avs, we read about how once there was a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, and that homeland was destroyed not by external enemies, but by internal Jewish hatred, what the Talmud calls sinat chinam, hatred of Jew for Jew. In previous years, we got to read about it. We had a luxury. It was history. What’s different this year is that we are not reading about it. We are living it. It is not history. It is our

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00:17:08

Shabbat Sermon with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz and Cantor...

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2023/07/22

July 22, 2023

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00:12:26

Shabbat Sermon: Half the Tribe with Rabbi Michelle...

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2023/07/15

July 15, 2023

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00:22:48

Shabbat Sermon: Beautiful, Broken and Ours with Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/07/08

What do we do with something that is beautiful, broken, and ours? I want to tell you a story that captures beautiful, broken and ours. The story flows from this black and white photograph that was shared at Hartman two weeks ago by Rabbi Rani Yeager. Rabbi Yeager is the rabbi of a congregation in Tel Aviv called Beit Tefilah. He is also a senior faculty member of Hartman. The photograph is of his mother as a very young child, her siblings, and her parents, Rani Yeager’s grandparents. His mother

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00:14:23

Shabbat Sermon: Miriam's Well with Rabbi Michelle...

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2023/07/01

July 1, 2023

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00:11:06

Shabbat Sermon: Judaism and Queerness - A Whole...

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2023/06/24

Shabbat shalom. As we say in Brooklyn on Pride Shabbat, chag sameach. I’m so jazzed to be back home as Temple Emanuel’s gay-in-residence this Shabbat. Growing up at Emanuel, Schechter, and Ramah, I was frequently asked the same question: am I a Jewish American or an American Jew. Twenty years later, I can safely say…its a really odd question for a 5th grader. The real problem with the question is that it presumes my Jewish identity and my American identity are separate. But really, they build on

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