Watch Video Download PDF Earlier this week I took my confirmation class on our annual trip to New York. Our first visit upon our arrival in Manhattan was the Jewish Heritage Museum in Battery Park. Its majestic view through the large windows of the Statue of Liberty, what for many of our ancestors may well have been …
Watch Video Download PDF The calendar says that today is January 6, 2024. On the Jewish calendar, today is the 26th day of Tevet in the year 5784. But in Israel, it is October 8th, 2023, the day after the horrific unimaginable unanticipated barbaric killing spree launched by Hamas on Simchat Torah, Saturday, October 7. It is …
Watch Video Download PDF We have learned a lot this past week. One thing we learned is that “pronounism”, or “pronounophobia”, two words I just invented, and which mean the incorrect use of pronouns, can get you into more trouble than calling for the genocide of Jews. The other thing we learned this past week …
Rabbi Weinblatt’s Sermon On Erev Yom Kippur Watch Video Download PDF It is difficult to know which aspect of the story of Dinah is most disturbing. Is it that she was taken and raped by Shechem? Is it the silence of her father Jacob in the face of his daughter being violated? Is it the complicity of the …
HAYEI SARAH Watch Video Download PDF Throughout the ages our sages enjoyed engaging in the sophistry of comparing Abraham to Noah and debating who was the greater person, who was more righteous? The obvious answer is Abraham. The odds are tilted in his favor because, after all, we Jews are descendants of Abraham, not Noah. Abraham is …
Ever since the horrific attack on October 7, Rabbi Weinblatt has given a series of sermons about what happened. Here is the most recent one. Watch Video Download PDF In this the third week since Israel launched its invasion of Hamas-controlled Gaza in response to the brutal sadistic massacre that occurred 4 weeks ago, moral …
Here is a video version of the message below: It is difficult to find the words to express the depth of the emotions felt at a time such as this. Some that come to mind are: shock, devastated, worried, concerned, anguished, sad, angry, devastated, outraged, horrified, heartbroken. Our feelings of despair are prompted by the …
Rabbi Weinblatt’s Sermon On Erev Yom Kippur Watch Video Download PDF 50 years ago, on Yom Kippur, 1973, Egypt and Syria, with the support of other Arab nations, launched a surprise attack on Israel. Seeking to undo the defeat they had suffered in the Six Day War, and wanting to overturn the results of the 1948 …
Rabbi Weinblatt’s Sermon On the Second Day of Rosh Hashana Watch Video Download PDF We do not realize since we are so integrated, assimilated and accepted in American life, that Judaism is a distinct philosophy and outlook which on occasion goes against prevailing norms and attitudes of the society around us. An example of Judaism’s …
Rabbi Weinblatt’s Sermon September 16, 2023 Watch the video Download PDF I still remember sitting at High Holiday services with my family at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation exactly 50 years ago, on a beautiful fall day like today. It was Rosh Hashana, 1973. Knowing that I had just started my senior year of college and would graduate in …
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