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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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00:39:46

Talmud Class: Do Today's Troubling Headlines Belong...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/03/29

Shall we invite the troubling headlines—from Israel, Gaza, America, our world—to our seders? Are our seders supposed to be a joyful way to avoid the world (family, friends, songs, children’s skits, plays, games, great food, lots of wine, tasty desserts), or an invitation to engage the world and think out loud together about how we can make it better?Are there any great options? Three options present themselves:Festival of worry. If everyone around the seder table agrees, and we talk about it, what

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00:31:06

Shabbat Sermon: Theology, Community & the Search for...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/03/22

In the Torah God tells us that from time to time God will hide God’s face. This would seem to be such a time. How do we find God in our troubled world together?

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00:17:07

Shabbat Sermon: Counterworld with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/03/15

A woman named Jessica Sklar, her husband and their two children were happily living their lives in Pacific Palisades when their house burned down. Since losing all their earthly possessions, they have been wandering in the wilderness. In less than two months, this family has moved five times, from A B & B X5. In the home they used to love, they had stability and serenity. In the wilderness they now inhabit, they have anxiety and uncertainty. A deep question lodges in their soul: We are not

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00:37:44

Talmud Class: Mahmoud Khalil and the Documentary...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/03/15

How are we to understand the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and the stated intent of the federal government to deport him?It is good. He is an Israel hater. Finally the federal government is cracking down on Israel hate and Jew hate that have been running rampant on college campuses, leading to the intimidation and harassment of Jewish students and supporters of Israel. Columbia has been the capital of Jew hate and Israel hate. It is about time.It is bad. It changes the fundamental character of our

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00:16:25

Brotherhood Shabbat Sermon with Yad Chessed Founder...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/03/01

Robert Housman established Yad Chessed so he could help his neighbors struggling in Boston’s Jewish community. In the early years, he ran it by himself, with help from his wife Sue, as he worked full-time as a computer programmer. He directed Yad Chessed until the summer of 2012 when he became a member of its Board of Directors.

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00:41:16

Talmud Class: Do We Own It, and if So, What Do We Do...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/03/01

On Yom Kippur, October 9, 1943, in the middle of the Holocaust, Rabbi Walter Wurzburger gave a sermon at Congregation Chai Odom in Brighton, Massachusetts entitled “The Individual in the Crisis.” He argued that Jews in Greater Boston own moral responsibility for the Holocaust. On the basis of the High Priest’s avodah service, Rabbi Wurzburger offered this stark challenge:We behold a world of agony, misery, cruelty, injustice, brutality, and tyranny. We are responsible for it. It is our world. No

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00:16:16

Shabbat Sermon: Sing Your Song with Rav Hazzan Aliza...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/22

In 1992, then 25-year-old Sinéad O'Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live. She was a budding international musical superstar with two chart-topping records to her name. And, unbeknownst to producers, she had decided to use her platform to protest rampant child abuse in the Catholic Church. At the end of her performance, she stared straight into the camera, tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II and threw it at the camera as she shouted, “fight the real enemy.”Now remember, 1992 was almost a

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00:48:56

Talmud Class: Joy and Sorry in Megillat Esther - Is...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/22

Often music reflects the mood of the time we are in. That is the case with Megillat Esther – but in a surprising way. While we are chanting in a joyous musical mode, reflected in the trope of Purim, we suddenly hear two mournful tunes at several points during the Megillah reading. There are six verses that we sing to this mournful trope, the trope for Eicha, the book of Lamentations, which we read on Tisha B’Av. What does Purim, our happiest holiday, have to do with Tisha B’Av, our saddest?Join us

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00:16:34

Shabbat Sermon: Meeting our Moment

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/15

Has this ever happened to you? One frigid morning, I grab my warmest jacket. I reach down to zip the zipper and it won’t budge. I pull. I push. I take it apart. I put it back. I pull again. I’m late. I’m from California – I need this coat to zip. Now there are probably more rational things to have done, but I do not do them. I pull with all my strength – words that I make it a practice not to say bubbling up in my mind – until I have whipped myself into a quiet frenzy. The coat is broken. The world

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00:42:11

Talmud Class: If Only

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/15

I was out having a coffee last week with a friend. In our musings about the vagaries of life, the phrase, “If only” come up in conversation. How would our lives be different “if only?” Would they be better? Worse? If only we had done this and not that, or NOT done this or that? Our micro and macro decisions effect not only the trajectory of our lives, but the lives our family, friends, community and perhaps beyond. How different would our world be if for example Drew Bledsoe had not been injured? If

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00:16:46

Shabbat Sermon: Argentinian Jewish Music and the...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/08

February 8, 2025

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00:48:15

Talmud Class: Simultaneous Song

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/08

What is the greatest miracle in Jewish history? Many would answer it is the one we read about this Shabbat – the splitting of the sea. Rarely, though, do we stop to notice another, perhaps equally astounding, miracle that happened when our ancestors reached the shore – they all broke out into song together. How did this happen? What did it look like? Why should we care?The vision of simultaneous song endures as an example of striking unity among our people. It is also fleeting. Today, division runs

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00:14:21

Shabbat Sermon: Braids with Rabbi Michelle Robinson

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/01

February 1, 2025

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00:44:07

Talmud Class: How Quickly We Forget

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/02/01

There is a fascinating paradox at the core of human experience: we know what is required to live healthy, happy lives and yet, we often make choices that directly contradict our own well-being. This is well-documented. For example, the consequences of smoking cigarettes have been studied intensively, and the results of those studies have been widely publicized. And yet, experts estimate that there are still1.1 billion smokers world-wide, a number which has remained constant despite intensive efforts

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00:07:45

Shabbat Sermon: Upon 3 Pillars The Teen’s World...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/01/31

Shimon The Righteous would say that the world stands upon three things: upon Torah, upon Avodah - the Temple Service, and upon G’milut Hasadim - acts of loving kindness. Since I am finishing my fifth month working with the teen community here at Temple Emanuel I thought that I would humbly reflect upon three stories that illustrate these three pillars of Jewish life, which point our compass as we continue to establish our teen community.

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00:41:20

Talmud Class: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's "Have...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/01/25

If you have not already done so, please take a couple of moments to watch this clip of the most famous part of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon at a prayer service this past Tuesday, the day after the inauguration, at the Washington National Cathedral.In class we will watch this clip together before our study and conversation. Here are some questions we will consider together: What do you think of her message? What does it say about our nation now that Bishop Budde’s message—have mercy—can

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00:40:18

Shabbat Sermon: A Lens for Understanding the...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/01/18

For 469 days, ever since October 7, every morning, and every evening, at our daily minyan, we pray for the IDF, that God should guard and protect Israel’s courageous and heroic soldiers. We pray that God return our hostages safely to their families. We say Mourner’s Kaddish as a community, as part of am Yisrael, for Israel’s fallen soldiers.Occasionally, somebody will ask: how much longer? How much longer will we offer these prayers? No one knows for sure, but the general answer has to be

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00:40:18

Talmud Class: In All of Egypt, Why Were There Only...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/01/18

This week we begin the Exodus story which offers humanity a one-two punch. First, a cruel new Pharaoh who demonizes a vulnerable and marginalized minority and commands “all his people, saying: Every boy that is born you shall throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.” Exodus 1-22. In other words, baby-killing is state policy. Infanticide is the law of the land. Second, in the face of such cruelty, in all of Egypt, only two people, Shifrah and Puah, stand up to resist. At most two in a whole

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00:20:21

Shabbat Sermon: May the Memory of Our House Be for a...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/01/11

There is a new form of loss in the world, and it is spreading like wildfire.We know what it is like to lose a person we love. Our mother dies. Our father dies. Our grandparent or sibling or friend dies. There is a Hebrew word for that, and it comes from the Joseph story. After the brothers sold Joseph into slavery, older brother Reuben observes hayeled einenu, Joseph is no more. And when that happens, the person we love dies and is no more, it is usually sad, sometimes tragic, and always a

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00:36:20

Talmud Class: How is it With Your Soul?

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2025/01/11

How is it with your soul? In her book on evangelical Christianity, Circle of Hope, Eliza Griswold shares the centrality of that question in helping people understand one another. How is it with your soul? Do I wake up angry and aggrieved, and spend my energy honking the horn, sending flaming emails, taking offense, looking for a fight? Do I wake up feeling grateful for the good in my life? Do I wake up rattled and unsettled or centered and anchored? What shapes our soul? What shapes our inner

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