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Pain and Comfort

Va-ethannan 5778 / 28 July 2018

This week is Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat of Comfort. After surviving Tisha B’Av and the Three Weeks, this week we read Isaiah’s prophecy of Comfort, Nachamu, in the first of… Read More

Posted: July 31, 2018 by

Lessons from Moshe

Pinchas 5778 / 7 July 2018

Shabbat shalom.  Thank you to Rabbi Friedman for inviting me to speak today, and for my wife, Alexandra for holding off on delivering our baby for another 10 minutes. In… Read More

Posted: July 24, 2018 by

Where have we been and what are we carrying?

D'varim 5778 / 21 July 2018

Shabbat Shalom! The man was too tall for our small space.  I knew it when the nurse opened the door and motioned for him to come inside.  The room was… Read More

Posted: July 23, 2018 by

Continuing Our Traditions with a Fifth Year of RH²

As the Marom Band begins our set at RH²: Rosh Hashanah in Rittenhouse Square I look out from the stage at the crowd of celebrants and my heart swells. I… Read More

Posted: July 19, 2018 by

Deserts & Oases

Matot Masei 5778 / 14 July 2018

Shabbat Shalom. Right in the middle of parshat Matot Masei, the action is interrupted for a long, long list of all the places the Israelites went during their 40 years… Read More

Posted: July 16, 2018 by
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