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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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00:12:42

Pesach Day 2 Sermon: Stocking Boxes to Freedom with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/07

Lhakpa Sherpa grew up impoverished in the shadow of Mount Everest. Her father worked as a shepherd and her mother raised her along with her ten siblings. They were dirt poor. So poor that they couldn’t afford to buy shoes for the children, let alone to send Lhakpa to school. Instead, she spent her days wandering barefoot through the mountains. Ever since she was little, Lhakpa has had one dream: she wanted to climb Mount Everest. At the time, women were not welcome to try. Every climber was

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00:17:40

Shabbat Sermon: The Keystone Habit We All Need Now...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/01

Israel. The images of civil unrest playing out in Israel this past Monday are images we never thought we would see. Demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of Israelis; counter demonstrations; the airport closed; IDF soldiers and reservists and pilots refusing to serve; general strikes; universities closing; ambassadors resigning; a high government official, Yoav Gallant, fired for speaking his mind and asking for dialogue. All this happening just as Israel is about to celebrate its 75th

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00:48:53

Talmud Class with Rachel Korazim: The Wadi Salib...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/04/01

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” - William Faulkner Faulkner’s famous quotation underlies all of Rachel Korazim’s sessions in this series about the crisis in Israel today. To understand the push for reform, and the protests against reform, we went back to the Altalena incident in 1948 (March 18 Talmud class) and to what Arabs in Israel have come to call their naqba, also 1948 (March 25 Talmud class). Rachel takes us to the Wadi Salib neighborhood of Haifa on July 9, 1959, when police

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00:18:27

Shabbat Sermon: Once Upon a Cruise Ship with Rav...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/03/25

How can you make sure to have the most meaningful and impactful Passover? Is it about preparation? The extent to which you clean out every cabinet and kasher your kitchen? Is it about the Seder itself—the Haggadah you choose and the activities you plan for the Seder? In the spring of 2014, I was in my second year of rabbinical school and got a gig as a cruise-ship rabbi. Given that this was my first real gig as a rabbi, I was determined to create the most meaningful Passover experience ever. I

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00:48:53

Talmud Class: Rachel Korazim on Naqba

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/03/25

Talk to any Israeli, talk to any American who has recently been to Israel, and the words one hears are: depressing, very concerning, unprecedented, I’m afraid. I don’t know how this ends. How did we get here? Where does this story begin? Last week, Rachel Korazim, our Israeli teacher of Israeli poetry, made a point that is so simple, so profound, and so important. The conflicts playing out in Israel did not just spontaneously happen in year 75. They have been cooking for 75 years. Their roots go

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00:18:27

Shabbat Sermon: Off Script with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz

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2023/03/18

I am not proud of it, but one day while on a recent long flight, to make the time pass, I found myself reading a rom com, total beach reading. There were so many other worthier things I could have read. I could have read an analysis of the impasse on judicial reform in Israel. Or I could have done daf yomi, the study of a daily page of Talmud. Or with Passover coming up, I could have studied the Haggadah to get ready for the seders. But no, I read a rom com, light and breezy. I know it would be

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00:47:10

Talmud Class: Poetry and Protest With Rachel Korazim

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/03/18

The impasse over judicial reform in Israel continues to be concerning and unresolved. Protests continue. Conversations have not resulted in resolution. Positions are hardening. The compromise which President Herzog implored both sides to work towards remains elusive. Talk to Israelis—their morale is low. They are troubled. “We hope we get there”—to Israel’s 75th. This Shabbat we are blessed to have a familiar voice and dear friend offering us a genre that we have not yet encountered regarding the

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00:17:16

Shabbat Sermon: Knitted Together Forever

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/03/11

I recently heard a podcast featuring Andy Stanley--have I mentioned him before? He is a pastor in Atlanta--and his wife Sandra, and they were discussing a most compelling question: How do we parent our children so that when they grow up and grow out, they want to spend time with their parents, and with one another, even when they don’t have to? If this is our goal, our parenting north star, that should motivate all our parenting decisions along the way.

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00:40:46

Talmud Class: Demoralized Israel - How Can We Help a...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/03/11

When I was in Jerusalem last week sitting shiva for our father, after folks gave their condolences and shared their memories, they would ask me for my take on Israel.The conversation was sobering, making me feel naïve and disconnected from the real Israel that is. Me:In Greater Jewish Boston, we are so excited to be marking Israel at 75.A big contingent from our shul is going to celebrate Israel at 75!A big contingent from the whole Boston Jewish community is going to mark this joyful and incredible

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00:14:57

Shabbat Sermon: It’s What We Do with Rabbi Michelle...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/03/04

March 4, 2023

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00:41:08

Talmud Class: Hero or Villain -how should we see...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/03/04

As a child, I reveled in the heroism of Mordechai. I admired him for his gumption, for the way he stood up to Haman and never betrayed his values--even when his very life was at stake. I was taught to see Mordechai as a capable and wise civil servant, as a mensch who took in his orphaned niece and loved her like his own, and as a visionary who empowered the people around him, most especially his niece, Esther. But the story of Mordechai is more complicated than that of a simple hero. Tomorrow, we're

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00:17:09

Shabbat Sermon: Will Everything Be OK? with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/25

Will everything be OK? Will all the things that I am worrying about be OK? Will all the things you are worrying about be OK? Will all the things we are worrying about be OK? I would love to believe the premise of a children’s story by Anna Dewdney with an evocative title--Everything Will be OK. The plot is that a little bunny worries about little things, like getting the wrong kind of sandwich for lunch; medium things, like losing a kite; and big things, like missing family. In each case the bunny

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00:42:18

Talmud Class: Death Penalty for the Tree of Life Mass...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/24

The mass murderer of 11 innocent people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh will go on trial in April. The Justice Department is seeking the death penalty.What do we think of that?Two questions present themselves. First, if we were to look for wisdom from Jewish sources, should the Tree of Life mass murderer be sentenced to life in prison, or the death penalty?One of the strongest arguments against the death penalty is concern that the justice systemmight makes a mistake and convict and

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00:25:46

Art from the Heart – A Conversation with Alan Teperow

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/21

Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz and Alan Teperow as they discuss Alan's passion for painting.

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00:16:43

Shabbat Sermon: Rules of Life with Rav Hazzan Aliza...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/18

This week, we are reading Parshat Mishpatim. This Torah portion is all about rules and regs. After the revelation, God spells out in minute detail what the people should do and how they should behave. It’s not a conversation, not open to interpretation, the laws are given without explanation and the people simply accept them. They say, na’aseh v’nishmah—we will do what God says and then we will seek to understand what we are doing and why. So often, this is how we engage with our world. That is how

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00:43:55

Talmud Class: Should We Ever Pray for Revenge?

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/18

A 26-year old named Ilya Sosansky was the seventh victim of the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on January 27 in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood.Ilya Sosansky was a graduate of AMIT Technology High School.AMIT sent out an email describing the indescribable loss of this young man. Ilya Sosansky was a beloved, popular DJ. His friends described him as a young man filled with a joy for life, who could cheer up anyone. Adi Yona referred to Ilya as, “A charm, a walking smile, a good soul who only did

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00:14:15

Inclusion Shabbat Sermon with Shelly Christensen

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/11

February 11, 2023

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00:50:33

Talmud Class: The Power of Inclusion

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/11

If there's one lesson of this coming Shabbat, it is that life is not a solo sport - we are better when we are together - all of us. That applies to leadership - Yitro teaches Moses to include others as leaders.That applies to family - Moses listens to Yitro, including him in decision making.And that applies to community - when our ancestors gathered at Sinai, they spoke together as one, including all. We are holy when we are one.We are stronger when we are one.We are better when "we" is truly

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00:14:15

A Sermon in Song with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger and...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/04

View the sheet music here!

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00:40:22

Talmud Class: The Magic of Sephardic Music

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2023/02/04

Often, we experience music in a passive way. In a synagogue setting, very few of us know where liturgical melodies come from and rarely do we have the time to consider the effect of any particular melody on our prayer experience. (Even when we do have the time and inclination, we often struggle to find words to articulate the impact of a melody on our emotional or psychospiritual experience.) This class is about tuning in--literally--to the magic of Sephardic music. These melodies are fascinating

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