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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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00:18:05

Shabbat Sermon: A Story. A Coda. A Second Coda. with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/06/17

I want to tell you a story that has a coda and a second coda. The context is college baseball. If college baseball is not your thing, if you have never followed college baseball, not to worry. The story, which I heard on ESPN Daily Podcast, is about life. There is a college in North Carolina called Wake Forest, which has a historically mediocre baseball team called the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. The team last won the College World Series 70 years ago. In 2010 a man named Tom Walter became

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00:19:03

Shabbat Sermon: Tending To Our Soul with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/06/10

What character in the Hebrew Bible says, “kill me now”? What character is so burnt out, so dark inside, so spent, so worn down, that he does not want to live any more and literally says “kill me now”? The answer is Moses in our reading this morning. Usually the Torah says nothing about its characters’ interior lives. When God commands Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham says hineni, here I am, ready to do the deed. What was he thinking? What was he feeling? The Torah does not say. In

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00:45:30

Talmud Class: Asymmetry - They Have No Other Country,...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/06/10

For our last Talmud class of the year we want to leave you with a question to ponder about asymmetry—an asymmetry between Israeli Jews and American Jews. For its 75th, Israel had a contest for what Israeli song best captures Israel? Israelis voted for the winner: a song that was composed in 1982 called ein li eretz acheret, I have no other land. Here are some questions: What is the essential message of this song? What is it about this song that inspires Israelis to vote for it as conveying the

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00:18:32

Shabbat Sermon: Strangers with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/06/03

I promise that in the fullness of time I will, one day, give a sermon that is not about the Boston Celtics. But today is not that day. We have to process Game 7. What happened on the court Monday night was not just a sad basketball story, if you happen to be a Celtics fan. It was also a confusing, perplexing human story. How do we understand our team losing the first three games, including two at home, and then winning the next three games, including two on the road? How do we understand the

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00:45:23

Talmud Class: Can the Concept of Surrender Help Us...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/06/03

Why do we do what we do as Jews? What is a mitzvah? Is it a nice thing to do, a commandment, or a cultural folkway of the Jewish people? If we don't believe in a commanding God, can we believe in commandment? If not, how can Judaism make any demands upon us? And if we do not allow our faith to make demands upon us, is it too thin and weak to be of consequence? These were the questions that came up in last week's class about the essay by Elliot Cosgrove entitled "A Choosing

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00:18:32

Shabbat Shavuot Sermon: Control with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/27

Rabbi Samuel Chiel, of blessed memory, used to say: the Jewish people are not superstitious…kenahorah. Recently I was an eyewitness to the birth, the thriving, and the death of a superstition…kenahora. It happened in our evening minyan in the Gann Chapel, and it concerned the seating arrangement of two of our evening minyan regulars, Grant Finkel and Lisa Hills. Every night Grant sits in the section to the left, facing the bimah, in the second row. Every night Lisa Hills sits in the section to the

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00:45:36

Talmud Class: Is There Any Idea That Can Persuade...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/27

This Shabbat is the second day of Shavuot—a good time to think about our relationship to the Torah as a source of law (halakhah) that is supposed to shape how we live every day. Problem: For most of us, it doesn’t. The Torah says: keep kosher. Many of us don’t. The Torah says: observe Shabbat. For many of us, Saturday is not Shabbat but another weekend day, not particularly distinguishable from Sunday. The Torah (as the rabbis interpret it) says: we are obligated to pray daily. Many of us

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00:13:07

Shabbat Sermon: Matchmaker, Matchmaker with Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/20

May 20, 2023

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00:43:26

Talmud Class: A Conversation with Hadassah's Director...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/20

Shira and I spent the last two weeks of December at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem being with our father. While attending to a loved one in these circumstances is obviously painful, at the same time, we marveled at how day-to-day life at Hadassah Hospital felt not only like Israel at its best, but almost like the fulfillment of prophetic visions of peace, of the lion and lamb dwelling together in harmony. The patients, doctors, nurses, medical crews, cleaning and maintenance crews, cashiers in the

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00:12:12

Brotherhood Shabbat Sermon with Dan Caine

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/13

Dan is a board member of Repair the World (Jewish engagement through service) and the Friends of the Arava Institute (bringing Arabs and Jews together in Israel to address environmental and climate issues). He is a long-time member of Temple Emanuel and has, over the years, volunteered with other Jewish organizations, including Combined Jewish Philanthropies, JCDS, the Newton Centre Minyan, and Our Generation Speaks. In his free time, Dan created a software package for calculating income tax, as

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00:29:41

Talmud Class: When It's Mother's Day, and Your Own...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/13

How do we think about Mother’s Day when our own mother has passed away? Even if we are blessed to have our mothers alive, how do we think about lots of joyful moments in the spring season when that joy belongs to other people, but not to us? How do we dance at somebody else’s adult child’s wedding when our own adult child is still looking? How do we feel joy for somebody else’s graduations when our own season of graduations is long gone, when young family energy is a distant memory? How do we

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00:16:18

Shabbat Sermon: Does Judaism Prize Finishing the Job?...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/06

If you are a Boston sports fan, two words inspire pathos: Boston Bruins. This past regular season, the Bruins enjoyed not just a successful season, but a historically successful season. The National Hockey League, NHL, is 106 years old. In the long history of the league, this year’s Bruins set the record for most wins in a season. They set the record for most points in a season. Not only did they win lots of games; they usually trounced their opponent. The NHL keeps a record of what is called

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00:43:48

Talmud Class: The Torah of Rabbi Harold Kushner,...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/06

When the history of twentieth-century Jewry is written, I believe that one of the most important, impactful, influential thinkers will be Rabbi Harold Kushner, who was laid to his eternal rest this past Monday. I do not know of a rabbi whose teaching had a broader reach or a bigger impact. It is not just that his books sold millions of copies. Not just that his books were translated into many languages. Not just that his work was read by Jews and non-Jews alike. Rabbi Harold Kushner did

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00:40:02

Rabbi Michelle Robinson and Jill Ebstein on "Alfred's...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/05/02

Join Rabbi Michelle Robinson and Jill Ebstein as they discuss Jill's book, "Alfred's Journey to be Liked". Find the book here!

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00:14:19

Shabbat Sermon: Chips with Rabbi Michelle Robinson

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/29

April 29, 2023

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00:29:59

Shabbat Sermon: Palestine 1936 - The Great Revolt and...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/22

Join Oren Kessler as he discusses his book, Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict.

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00:18:30

Israel's 75th Anniversary Sermon: Two Questions That...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/15

For some reason--I don’t know why it happens, I just know that it happens--tensions seem to rise in a family before a big milestone or family simcha. People tend to argue. To bicker. To get into negative energy patterns. The classic example of weird negative energy preceding what should be a happy family time is a wedding. If you have ever planned a wedding, you know this. As the day draws near, anxiety rises. Lists proliferate. Who is going to go to Costco to get the bottled water and the small

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00:13:02

Pesach Day 8 Sermon: The Quilt with Rav Hazzan Aliza...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/13

When I was home for Thanksgiving this year, my mom and I were going through some old boxes at the bottom of a closet when we came across a bag of colorful fabrics. “What’s this?” I asked my mom. With a funny look on her face, my mom took the bag and started looking through it. “This is the quilt I was going to make you when you were a baby.” Apparently, when I was born, my mom didn’t want to just be a stay-at-home caretaker. She wanted to feel productive. To be able to show something beyond a

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00:15:53

Pesach Day 7 Sermon: The Things We Do For Love with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/12

For those of you hearty enough to come to shul on the seventh day of Pesach, I want to share with you a love story—in fact a Pesach double love story. But to appreciate this double love story, we need first to talk about halakha, Jewish law. When was the last time that happened in a sermon? The Torah commands us to have no chametz in our possession during the holiday of Pesach. Chametz is defined as five species of grain: wheat, barley, spelt, rye, and oats. It is not just that we can’t eat

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00:17:09

Shabbat Sermon: Make Space or Take Up Space? with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/08

I recently heard a teaching that I experienced as an epiphany. The context was the Spark mission to Israel to celebrate its 75th anniversary leaving in a few weeks. Three hundred people from Greater Jewish Boston are going on nine buses. Marc Baker, the CEO of CJP, was speaking to the folks who were leading each of these buses. He shared that when he was still at Gann Academy, he was hired by CJP to lead a mission of young Jewish leaders from Boston called Acharai. The first thing he did was to

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