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From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life

Temple Emanuel of 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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00:16:20

Shabbat Sermon: Redemption Song with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/03/21

For the last two weeks, I have been wearing this tallit. At Kiddush, both weeks, I have discovered that our congregation is very generous when it comes to offering feedback. People had opinions about the tallit which they shared promptly and candidly.Comments like: “What’s with that new tallit? What is it? It doesn’t really look like a tallit. Is it a shawl? Is it a scarf? Is it a new shawl, scarf type of tallit?”Or: “Rabbi, it doesn’t sit right on you. It’s lopsided.”Or a very generous offer of

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00:34:59

Talmud Class: Going Back to Egypt to Get the Exodus...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/03/21

One of the hardest things in the world is to come up with something new to say about a subject that has been amply covered by other writers. A new biography of Abraham Lincoln, a new history of the Civil War, a new take on the New Deal—is a new insight even possible on topics that have been written about so extensively?In that spirit, can there be a new Haggada that comes up with a new take that no one else has ever seen before in thousands of years of Haggadot? Apparently, the answer is yes. Last

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00:19:11

Evan Falchuk and Elias Rosemberg: Jewish Roots in...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/03/20

Cantor Elias Rosemberg and Temple Emanuel member Evan Falchuk discuss Evan's family roots in Venezuela and the current political situation.

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00:51:50

Shabbat Sermon: A Remedy for Again with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/03/14

If you have ever had back surgery, you know what a shlepped-out ordeal it can be. You have back pain. You go to your doctor who wants to try a conservative treatment plan. Pain medication. Then you try heat. Then you try cold. Put your legs up in bed on a stack of pillows. Lie this way, lie that way. Then comes physical therapy. All those appointments. All those exercises. Still have the pain. Then you try the shots. At last, you do surgery. Then comes the recovery. And then therapy. PT. OT. And

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00:51:50

Talmud Class: Navigating Between Scylla and Charybdis...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/03/14

What text can best take in the challenge of American Jews at this moment who love America, who love Israel, and who face the daily torrent of news about the war? The text that comes up for me is Homer’s classic The Odyssey, in which Odysseus and his crew must navigate between Scylla and Charybdis. Both fierce and fearsome monsters are lethal. On the one hand, we have Scylla, a war against a genocidal enemy whose mottos are “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”; which had a tower in

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00:21:17

Shabbat Sermon: An Old Story Renewed with Rabbi Wes...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/03/07

If you have ever been married, or if you have ever walked an adult child down the aisle, think back to the energy, the electricity, the excitement of the wedding day. All that love in one sacred place. Pure magic.There was a young, bright, beautiful Israeli couple looking forward to their wedding day. The bride and the groom were getting married in the backyard of the bride’s parents. Joyful and magical. Except for two small details.The date of their wedding was Thursday, June 12, 2025. The couple

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00:27:28

Brotherhood Shabbat Sermon with Guest Speaker Rabbi...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/28

Rabbi Elan Babchuck serves as the Executive Vice President at Clal (National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership) and the Founding Executive Director of Glean Network, which partners with Columbia Business School. He has published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, and Religion News Service, writes a column for The Wisdom Daily, contributed to Meaning Making – 8 Values That Drive America’s Newest Generations (2020, St. Mary’s Press) and is the co-author of Picking Up the Pieces:

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00:34:04

Talmud Class: Johnny Gaudreau's #13 Jersey in the...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/28

What do we do with what we remember? How does what we remember cause us to act? This question comes from two places. It is Shabbat Zachor, the special Shabbat before Purim when we remember Amalek that hated us, that tried to kill us, and that inspired commands to never forget that hate, and to respond in kind. And it is the week of the US Men’s Hockey Team’s first Olympic gold in 46 years. Poignantly, the team’s victory picture included the #13 jersey of their teammate, and hockey super star, Johnny

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00:21:35

Shabbat Sermon: DIY Instructions for the Tabernacle?...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/21

The Torah offers more than one account of what was revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai. This week’s reading, Terumah, suggests that the Ten Commandments were not the focus of revelation. What are the implications for us of the different portrayals of Moses’ experience?About Rabbi Peretz RodmanRabbi Rodman is a Jerusalem-based writer, translator, and editor. A native Bostonian, he has studied and taught at Brandeis University, Hebrew College, and the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew

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00:37:53

Talmud Class: A Spiritual Response to a Sordid Saga

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/21

There is a depressing news story that won’t go away. There are fresh chapters every week. The story goes something like this: People who were preeminent in their field—law, business, finance, real estate, professional sports, entertainment, higher education, medicine, health and wellness, spiritual counseling, politics, government—were emailing with a registered sex offender.What is that? So many people. So many different fields. So preeminent. So polished. So terribly off.If our Torah is to speak

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00:10:45

Shabbat Sermon: Strap on Your Skis with Rav Hazzan...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/14

Even before she stepped into her ski boots to compete in Cortina, Lindsey Vonn’s story was profound. To be a top contender at the age of 41, after six years of retirement, after a partial knee replacement and countless serious injuries, is remarkable in and of itself. But Vonn wasn’t just competing 24 years after her first Olympic games, and she wasn’t just competing on a body which had recovered from countless serious injuries. Just days before the Olympics, Vonn ruptured her ACL racing in

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00:27:17

Talmud Class: 'Boring' is a Compliment

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/14

Transformation. We were one thing. Now we are different, and better. How does transformation happen?Do our sources believe in the effectiveness of a transformational experience, that we are wowed and inspired and changed by some profound moment? Or are our sources skeptical that a single experience, however powerful, can sustain long-term personal growth? The Book of Exodus has a definite point of view. If ever there were a transformational moment, it would have been Sinai. God literally comes down

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00:17:21

Shabbat Sermon: 30 Years to 'I am Jewish' with Guest...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/07

Over the last 30 years, Adrian Gonzalez met and married his beloved, Leslie, joined Temple Emanuel, raised four wonderful children, and celebrated their bnei mitzvah right here on the Rabbi Samuel Chiel bimah. For all of this time, Adrian has been on his own spiritual journey. This year, he made the decision to officially join the Jewish people. Adrian shares his journey and about the love that brought him into the covenant.Adrian Gonzalez, the son of Cuban immigrants, was born and raised in

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00:38:22

Talmud Class: Is Anything as Strong as Inertia?

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/02/07

Inertia is super strong. What, if anything, is stronger? My late father-in-love used to say, “more than people know what they like, they like what they know.” People like what they know. They like certainty, clarity, predictability. They don’t like being rattled. They don’t like uncertainty. They don’t like unpredictability. They don’t like staring into a murky future. The address in our sacred canon for the strength of inertia comes from last week’s reading. When the children of Israel left Egypt

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00:11:30

Shabbat Shira Sermon with Cantor Elias Rosemberg

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/01/31

January 31, 2026

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00:36:48

Talmud Class: Baltimore or Israel? A New...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/01/31

Suzanne was happily married to her first husband, with whom she had two daughters, and four grandchildren. All lived happily in Baltimore. He died. At the age of 70, she was blessed to find love a second time with a man whom she married. Suzanne and her second husband went to Israel, and they loved it.She writes to Abigail Shrier, an advice columnist for The Free Press. Now age 74, Suzanne shares her dilemma: I feel I am in my last act….I will soon be enfeebled to some degree, and not myself. Right

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00:25:20

Shabbat Sermon: Clarity, Courage, and Commitment:...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/01/24

The surge of antisemitism has left many of us unsettled, confused, and struggling to understand what type of Jewish future is possible in the Diaspora. In fact, we can have a large hand in shaping our future, but to do this we first need to better understand the challenge before us.About Robert LeikindRob Leikind has been director of AJC New England since 2008. A child of parents who survived Hitler’s Europe, he grew up with a deeply rooted regard for the opportunity that American democracy affords

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00:44:09

Talmud Class: Silver, Gold, and the Whirlwind

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/01/24

What is the difference between the Exodus story we encounter in the spring in the Haggadah and the Exodus story we encounter in the winter in the Book of Exodus? One common answer is that Moses is hardly mentioned in the Haggadah and is obviously a major protagonist in the Torah’s telling. But there is another important difference. The Torah has a lot to say about the Israelites taking silver and gold on their way out of Egypt. The announcement before the 10th plague:“Tell the people to borrow, each

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00:12:15

Shabbat Sermon: Walking in the Light of God with...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/01/17

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was courageous beyond measure. He walked with clarity and conviction in the face of menacing dogs, water cannons, angry mobs, and violent police and never seemed afraid. What gave him this courage? In this sermon, we will hear his own testimony from his book Stride Toward Freedom: the Montgomery Story, as Dr. King shares what enabled him to move from paralyzing fear to courageous action. Can we learn to do that? Can we do our own version of what he did?

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00:27:45

Talmud Class: The Best Thing to Do with Secrets,...

From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life ·

2026/01/17

What would you think about a nephew marrying his aunt—his mother or father’s sister—and starting a family together? It feels creepy, gross, incestuous. In fact, the Torah not once but twice bans nephew-aunt unions.Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh. Leviticus 18:12You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is laying bare one’s own flesh; they shall bear their guilt. Leviticus 20:19Why am I telling you

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