From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for Life

By Temple Emanuel in Newton

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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.

Episode Date
Pesach Day 8 Sermon: What Can We Control? A Yizkor Sermon
Apr 30, 2024
Pesach Day 7 Sermon: Song of the Sea Possibilities with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 29, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Rough Patches with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 27, 2024
Talmud Class: Why Don't We Say Yizkor for Dead Ideas, and for Dreams That Don't Come True?
Apr 27, 2024
Pesach Day 1 Sermon: A Passover Conversation about Campus Antisemitism with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Apr 23, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Apples with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 20, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Listening to Beyonce in a Time of War with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 13, 2024
Talmud Class: Love in a Time of Not Love
Apr 13, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Brothers for Life with Amit Gilboa and Shahaf Segal
Mar 30, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Cultivating Hope During Seemingly Hopeless Times by Dr. Irle Goldman
Mar 25, 2024
Talmud Class: Why Don't We Say Hallel on Purim?
Mar 23, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Have a Little Faith with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 16, 2024
Talmud Class: "I'm Just Not Into Israel"...Which of the Four Children is That?
Mar 16, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Build a Tabernacle in the Wilderness with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 09, 2024
Talmud Class: The Bible Story About No Good Options
Mar 09, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Real Body Positivity with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Mar 02, 2024
Talmud Class: Is the Sun Rising or Setting on American Judaism?
Mar 02, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Reflections of Our Israel Mitzvah Mission Travelers
Feb 24, 2024
Talmud Class: Unpacking Our Israel Mitzvah Mission
Feb 24, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Turn the Lights Back On with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Feb 17, 2024
Neurodivergent Torah: A Celebration of Autistic Culture & Liberation with Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman
Feb 10, 2024
Talmud Class: Saying Yes When We Don't Have the Foggiest Idea of What We Are Saying Yes To
Feb 10, 2024
A Conversation with Annette Miller
Feb 07, 2024
Talmud Class: Transformation
Feb 03, 2024
Am Yisrael Chai with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jan 27, 2024
Talmud Class: Should the Jewish People Lower our Expectations?
Jan 27, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Brothers and Sisters with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 20, 2024
Talmud Class: Three Stories About Trees
Jan 20, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: Meeting Change with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jan 13, 2024
Talmud Class: Signs and Wonders That We Can Believe In
Jan 13, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: When We Feel Weariness with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 06, 2024
Talmud Class: Wisdom - What Does It Look Like, and Where Can We Get It?
Jan 06, 2024
Shabbat Sermon: God’s Afikomen - Hidden Messages in Vayechi with Dr. Lynne Heller
Dec 30, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: A Christmas Story with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Dec 23, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Maestro with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Dec 16, 2023
Talmud Class: The October 7 Kaddish, the Holocaust Kaddish, and Hallel
Dec 16, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Fight for your Heart with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Dec 09, 2023
Talmud Class: How Has October 7 Changed the Project of Jewish Education?
Dec 09, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Engaging the Darkness Without Becoming Dark with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Dec 02, 2023
Talmud Class: Jacob's Tattered Envelope - and Our Own
Dec 02, 2023
Shabbat Sermon with Lishi Baker
Nov 25, 2023
Talmud Class: Is God Relevant?
Nov 25, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: What to do about the State of Judaism in the Jewish State? with Rabbi David Golinkin
Nov 18, 2023
Talmud Class: Rabbi David Golinkin on Israel at War
Nov 18, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: When Parents and Children Disagree About Israel with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 11, 2023
Talmud Class: How Does This Chapter Compare?
Nov 11, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: 2023? with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Nov 04, 2023
Talmud Class: Moshe Dayan's Hard Words in 1956, Israel's "Gettysburg Address"
Nov 04, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Hope - What Poland’s Jewish Rebirth Means for the Jewish World with Jonathan Ornstein
Oct 31, 2023
Talmud Class: Do the Two Psalms We Say Every Morning and Every Evening (Psalms 121 and 130) Help?
Oct 28, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: The Paradox of Forever Love with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 21, 2023
Talmud Class: What Does the Coda to the Noah Story Say About Noah, About Israel and About Us?
Oct 21, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Our Golda Moment with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 14, 2023
Talmud Class: Israel at War and the Challenge of Hate
Oct 14, 2023
Talmud Class: Does the Last Chapter of the Torah Provide Us a Guide for How to Live and Die?
Oct 07, 2023
Sukkot Day 2 Sermon: We're Keeping the Etrog Tree with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Oct 01, 2023
Sukkot Day 1 Sermon: Would You Rather Be a Supreme Court Justice or a RICO Defendant? Choosing Ice Cream vs. Choosing Life with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 30, 2023
Talmud Class: "I Don't Do Pessimism" Our Posture? Should it Be?
Sep 30, 2023
Yom Kippur Sermon: Next, Next! Now, Now! with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 24, 2023
Yom Kippur Sermon: When the Dragons are Not Small with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Sep 23, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Distance Travelled with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 23, 2023
Talmud Class: Is the Peretz Story an Adequate Response to the Pain in Our World?
Sep 23, 2023
Rosh Hashanah Day 2 Sermon: What’s Your Cathedral? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 17, 2023
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon: When I Was Younger with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Sep 16, 2023
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Sermon: Unstuck with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 16, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: The Lottery Ticket That Wins Every Time with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 09, 2023
Talmud Class: What, If Anything, Do We Have to Believe to be a Good Jew?
Sep 09, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Quit Sooner with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Sep 02, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Hitting the Ever-Moving Target of Jewish Education with Rabbi Ravid Tilles
Aug 26, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Wisdom of the Moving Cart with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Aug 19, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Generations with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Aug 12, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Barbie & Beyond with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Aug 05, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Is There Hope? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jul 29, 2023
Shabbat Sermon with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz and Cantor Elias Rosemberg
Jul 22, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Half the Tribe with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jul 15, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Beautiful, Broken and Ours with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jul 08, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Miriam's Well with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jul 01, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Judaism and Queerness - A Whole Greater Than the Sum of the Parts with Sam Gardenswartz
Jun 24, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: A Story. A Coda. A Second Coda. with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 17, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Tending To Our Soul with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 10, 2023
Talmud Class: Asymmetry - They Have No Other Country, and We Do
Jun 10, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Strangers with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 03, 2023
Talmud Class: Can the Concept of Surrender Help Us Reclaim Our Judaism?
Jun 03, 2023
Shabbat Shavuot Sermon: Control with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 27, 2023
Talmud Class: Is There Any Idea That Can Persuade non-Orthodox American Jews to Take Jewish Law (Halakhah) Seriously?
May 27, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Matchmaker, Matchmaker with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
May 20, 2023
Talmud Class: A Conversation with Hadassah's Director of Nursing, Rely Alon
May 20, 2023
Brotherhood Shabbat Sermon with Dan Caine
May 13, 2023
Talmud Class: When It's Mother's Day, and Your Own Mother Has Passed
May 13, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Does Judaism Prize Finishing the Job? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 06, 2023
Talmud Class: The Torah of Rabbi Harold Kushner, Zichrono Livrachah
May 06, 2023
Rabbi Michelle Robinson and Jill Ebstein on "Alfred's Journey to be Liked"
May 02, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Chips with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Apr 29, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Palestine 1936 - The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict with Oren Kessler
Apr 22, 2023
Israel's 75th Anniversary Sermon: Two Questions That Heal with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 15, 2023
Pesach Day 8 Sermon: The Quilt with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 13, 2023
Pesach Day 7 Sermon: The Things We Do For Love with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 12, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Make Space or Take Up Space? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 08, 2023
Pesach Day 2 Sermon: Stocking Boxes to Freedom with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 07, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: The Keystone Habit We All Need Now with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 01, 2023
Talmud Class with Rachel Korazim: The Wadi Salib Riots of 1959
Apr 01, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Once Upon a Cruise Ship with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Mar 25, 2023
Talmud Class: Rachel Korazim on Naqba
Mar 25, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Off Script with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 18, 2023
Talmud Class: Poetry and Protest With Rachel Korazim
Mar 18, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Knitted Together Forever
Mar 11, 2023
Talmud Class: Demoralized Israel - How Can We Help a Land we Love in a Troubled Time?
Mar 11, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: It’s What We Do with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Mar 04, 2023
Talmud Class: Hero or Villain -how should we see Mordechai?
Mar 04, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Will Everything Be OK? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Feb 25, 2023
Talmud Class: Death Penalty for the Tree of Life Mass Murderer? Do We Decide This With Head or Heart?
Feb 24, 2023
Art from the Heart – A Conversation with Alan Teperow
Feb 21, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Rules of Life with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Feb 18, 2023
Talmud Class: Should We Ever Pray for Revenge?
Feb 18, 2023
Inclusion Shabbat Sermon with Shelly Christensen
Feb 11, 2023
Talmud Class: The Power of Inclusion
Feb 11, 2023
A Sermon in Song with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger and Cantor Elias Rosemberg
Feb 04, 2023
Talmud Class: The Magic of Sephardic Music
Feb 04, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Pillow Talk with Michelle Robinson
Jan 28, 2023
Talmud Class: The Law of Unanticipated Consequences
Jan 28, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: The Best Use of a Secret with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 21, 2023
Talmud Class: Can We Be Any Happier Than Our Body is Healthy?
Jan 21, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Journey
Jan 14, 2023
Talmud Class: What is Your Voice on Israel Now?
Jan 14, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: Nes Gadol Haya Po with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jan 07, 2023
Talmud Class: “A blessing on your head?” Parenting according to Jacob
Jan 07, 2023
Shabbat Sermon: What Went Wrong with the Chili? with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Dec 31, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Focus on the Light with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Dec 24, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: ChatGPT and Me with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Dec 17, 2022
Talmud Class: The Origin Story for the Worst Anti-Semitic Tropes in our History
Dec 17, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: The Self-Absorption Paradox
Dec 10, 2022
Talmud Class: Do We Banish Our Demons, or Manage Them?
Dec 10, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: The Bankman-Frieds and Us
Dec 03, 2022
Talmud Class: Impactful No
Dec 03, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Siblings with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 26, 2022
Talmud Class: What Happened to Rebecca? A Complex Conversation About Taking Responsibility for Our Own Lives
Nov 26, 2022
Shabbat Sermon with Guest Speaker Richard Stone
Nov 19, 2022
Talmud Class: Can Stories Change How We Think and Act?
Nov 19, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: More Than Turkey and Cranberry Sauce with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Nov 12, 2022
Talmud Class: Is There a Point of No Return?
Nov 12, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Known with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 05, 2022
Talmud Class: Two Models for an Anxious Age
Nov 05, 2022
Shabbat Sermon with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Oct 29, 2022
Sisterhood Presents: Ed Shapiro: “The Ukrainian Refugee Situation and what Americans Can Do”
Oct 28, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Why Moses’s Final Words Call Out to Us With Special Urgency Right Now with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 22, 2022
Talmud Class: Methuselah, Jonathan Larson, and You
Oct 22, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: A Strategy for the Anxious with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 15, 2022
Talmud Class: What Do We Learn From the Corruption of King Solomon?
Oct 15, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Serendipity with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 08, 2022
Talmud Class: A Normal Rockwell Sukkot
Oct 08, 2022
Yom Kippur Sermon: Show Up. Step Up. Clean Up. with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 04, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: The Power in Your Hand with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Oct 01, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Setting Your Hallelujah Free with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 26, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Just Listen with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Sep 24, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Everything Worthwhile is Uphill with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 17, 2022
Talmud Class: What Does Stephen Sondheim Mentoring a Young Singer Teach Us about Our Relationship With Israel?
Sep 17, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: In a Snap! with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Sep 10, 2022
Talmud Class: Reclaiming Zionism
Sep 10, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Get Better with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 03, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Hello Darkness, My Old Friend with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Aug 27, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Serving Gratitude with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Aug 20, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Have a Good Summer with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Aug 13, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Fishing for Miracles with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Aug 06, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Embracing Mudernity with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jul 30, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Dr. Anonymous with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jul 23, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: A Kiddush Cup Made of Broken Pieces with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jul 16, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Working On It with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jul 09, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Always Ready, Always There—For God and Country. A Jewish Army Chaplain’s Reflection on Serving Our Nation in Uniform with Chaplain, Colonel Larry Bazer
Jul 02, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Roe is Me with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jun 25, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: What is the Opposite of Dismantle? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 18, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Find Something Heavy to Carry with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 11, 2022
Talmud Class: Is Self-Care a Legitimate Jewish Value?
Jun 11, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Restoring as we Remember with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jun 06, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: A Legacy of Principles from the Principal with Ilene Beckman
Jun 04, 2022
Talmud Class: A Post-Columbine, Post-Newtown, Post-Parkland, Post-Uvalde Reading of The Binding of Isaac
Jun 04, 2022
Shabbat Sermon with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz - Hidden Story, Healing World
May 28, 2022
Talmud Class: Can the Messiah Come Now?
May 28, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Never Better with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 21, 2022
Talmud Class: What Do Elijah and Rabbi Yose in the Ruins of Jerusalem Say to Us Now?
May 21, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Rich Strike with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 14, 2022
Talmud Class: Abortion and Jewish Sources
May 14, 2022
Shabbat Sermon with Rabbi Marc Baker
May 07, 2022
Talmud Class: What If The Supreme Court Reverses Roe v. Wade?
May 07, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Two Boxes with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 30, 2022
Talmud Class: Our Artist in Residence, Caron Tabb, in Dialogue with Our Clergy Team
Apr 30, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Emotional Traffic Jam with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 23, 2022
Talmud on Shabbat: The Mystery and Miracle of Elijah
Apr 23, 2022
Pesach Day VII Sermon: Serach bat Asher - A Hidden Heroine with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 22, 2022
Pesach Day II Sermon: Deeds, Words, World with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 17, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Pesach Day I with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Apr 16, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Passover Rx with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 09, 2022
Talmud Class: A Leprous Home, Elizabeth Strout, and Your Passover Seders
Apr 09, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Seconds and Years with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 02, 2022
Talmud Class: How the Driest and Most Opaque Text Leads to the Juiciest and Most Resonant Question
Apr 02, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: In the Cosmic Battle Between Good and Evil, What Can I Do?
Mar 26, 2022
Talmud Class: Shalshelet - The Cantillation Mark That Speaks to the Angst of Our Age
Mar 26, 2022
Talmud Class: Leadership Under Fire - Four Questions
Mar 19, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Representative Jake Auchincloss on Ukraine
Mar 12, 2022
Talmud Class: Facing our World's Challenges - Three Case Studies
Mar 12, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Of Mice and Maraschinos with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Mar 05, 2022
Talmud Class: What Does Ukraine Teach us About Israel's Future and the Jewish Future?
Mar 05, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: How to Help Ukraine
Feb 26, 2022
Talmud Class: Paul Farmer Dies at 62, John Demjanjuk Dies at 91, Where is God?
Feb 26, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Lightning Rod with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Feb 19, 2022
Talmud Class: What do the Two Stories of the Golden Calf Teach Us About Human Nature
Feb 19, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Breaking a Glass at the Olympics Final with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Feb 12, 2022
Talmud Class: Torn Betwixt and Between
Feb 12, 2022
Talmud Class: Should We Combat or Ignore a False Charge?
Feb 05, 2022
Shabbat Sermon with Robert Leikind, Regional Director of AJC New England
Feb 05, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Out of Office with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jan 29, 2022
Talmud Class: Don’t Look Up: A prayer for the end of the world
Jan 29, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Courage, my friend. You do not walk alone. I will walk with you and sing your spirit home with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jan 22, 2022
Talmud Class: More Love or More Fear? What is the Right Move for Synagogues after Texas?
Jan 22, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: The Gift of Gifts with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 15, 2022
Talmud Class: Is Detachment a Luxury Afforded Only to the Dying?
Jan 15, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: What Can I Do to Renew? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 08, 2022
Talmud Class: Dancing on My Own - The Power of Our Vulnerability
Jan 08, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Higher Resolution with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jan 01, 2022
Shabbat Sermon: Our Heart’s Burning Bush with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Dec 25, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Joyfully Wrong with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Dec 18, 2021
Hanukkah Happens Interview with Cantor Elias Rosemberg and Josh Jacobson
Dec 16, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: More Peace with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Dec 11, 2021
Talmud Class: The Poet of Ambivalence - Stephen Sondheim's Finishing the Hat
Dec 11, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Finding Great-Grandma Becky with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Dec 04, 2021
Talmud Class: Reading Maoz Tzur Through the Lens of People Love Dead Jews
Dec 04, 2021
Talmud Class: Are We Sometimes Our Own Worst Enemy?
Nov 27, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: What If This Is All There Is? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 27, 2021
Talmud Class: Of Sand and Pearls
Nov 20, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Unjudge with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Nov 20, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Liminal
Nov 13, 2021
Talmud Class: Business Ethics and Jacob's Spotted and Speckled Sheep and Goats
Nov 13, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: The Final Frontier with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Nov 06, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: People Remember Those Who are Present with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Oct 30, 2021
Talmud Class: On Second Acts--What if They Are Better Than Our First Acts?
Oct 29, 2021
Talmud Class: What Will the First Line of My Obituary Be? - Healthy Question, or Morbid Neurosis?
Oct 24, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Momentum That Comes and Goes vs. Momentum That Grows and Grows with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 23, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Bananas with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Oct 16, 2021
Talmud Class: Jon Gruden's Emails, Abraham's Worst Five Minutes, and a Jewish Theory of Legitimate Cancel Culture
Oct 16, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Beyond Noah's Rainbow with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Oct 09, 2021
Talmud Class: Are We Noah, Safe in Our Ark While Our Nation Struggles, and is That Okay?
Oct 09, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: The Catch With the Torah’s Most Important But Hardest Teaching with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 02, 2021
Talmud Class: What Do We Learn From the Sad, Violent Story of the First Family?
Oct 02, 2021
Shmini Atzeret Sermon: Good Mentors and Great Mentors with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 28, 2021
Sukkot Day 5 Sermon: Sleeping in the Rain with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Sep 25, 2021
Talmud Class: The Case of the Missing Holiday, and the Case of the Missing Ending
Sep 25, 2021
Sukkot Day 2 Sermon: Learning How to Color Hair Better with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 22, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Love Your Neighbor with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Sep 18, 2021
Talmud Class: What Does Moses the Human Being Teach Us About Our Own Lives?
Sep 18, 2021
Yom Kippur Sermon: History Has Its Eyes On You with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 16, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: The Nobility of Our High Ideals That We Fail to Fulfill with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 11, 2021
Talmud Class: What Does Moses the Human Being Teach Us About Our Own Lives?
Sep 11, 2021
Rosh Hashanah Sermon: When the Going Got Tough, We Did Not Thrive with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 07, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Does God Act in History? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Aug 28, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Two Jewish Lenses on the Tragedy of Afghanistan with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Aug 21, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: First Worst Impressions with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Aug 14, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Katie Ledecky and you with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Aug 07, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Traditions Regarding the Chanting of the Ten Commandments with Daniel Nesson
Jul 24, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: A Different Choice with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jul 17, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: My Heart’s Song with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jul 10, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: American Paradox with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jul 03, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Bashert with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 26, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: The Lesson of Achnai’s Oven with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jun 19, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Wonder Takes Work with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 12, 2021
Talmud Class: The Torah of Hope When Things are Not Hopeful
Jun 12, 2021
Talmud Class: How Should We Respond to Anti-Semitism?
Jun 05, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Welcome Home with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jun 05, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: The Case of the Missing Mitzvah with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 29, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Orpah's Kiss with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 22, 2021
Talmud Class: Moral Bankruptcy or Moral Courage?
May 22, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: New Normal with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
May 15, 2021
Talmud Class: Prayers for Israel
May 15, 2021
Talmud Class: Melody and Meaning—What might an upbeat melody teach us about a sober message?
May 08, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Anything, Not Everything with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
May 08, 2021
Talmud Class: Is Your Moral Voice More or Less Powerful than a Troubling Torah Verse?
May 01, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: YOLO with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 01, 2021
Talmud Class: Abuser or Penitent?
Apr 24, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: The Magic Spoon with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 17, 2021
Talmud Class: Hero or Sellout?
Apr 17, 2021
Talmud Class: An Enigmatic (Gay?) Love Story from the Talmud
Apr 10, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: A Pandemic Makeover with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 10, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Somebody Who Got Me - A Yizkor Sermon with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 04, 2021
Talmud Class Unpacking One of the Talmud's Gnarliest Tales: Moses, Rabbi Akiva, and God
Apr 03, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: The Law of the Radiator with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 03, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Smash Room with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Mar 29, 2021
Talmud Class: March 27, 2021
Mar 27, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: One Piece at a Time with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Mar 27, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Laugh and Cry with the Same Eyes with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 20, 2021
Talmud Class: Piano Man and the Seder
Mar 20, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Happily Ever After with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Mar 13, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Listen, Really Listen with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 06, 2021
Talmud Class: Has the Pandemic Shaken Up the Three Bs?
Mar 06, 2021
Talmud Class: How Do I Deal With My Low-Grade Depression From a Year of Pandemic Life?
Feb 27, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: AQ with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Feb 27, 2021
Talmud Class: Mixed Motive Mitzvah--Taking a 75-Year Old To Get a Vaccine so that I Get One Too
Feb 20, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Laughter Really is the Best Medicine with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Feb 13, 2021
Talmud Class: Now We Get to Be Egyptians!
Feb 13, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: What is Stronger Than a Storm, More Powerful Than a Pandemic? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Feb 06, 2021
Talmud Class: Why Does Rashi Insist on Converting Yitro When the Torah is Perfectly Content To Let Him Be What He is, a Midianite Priest?
Feb 06, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Let’s Sing the Songs We Love with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jan 30, 2021
Talmud Class: Three Women Step Out of the Shadows
Jan 30, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Generation Gap with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 23, 2021
Talmud Class: This Shabbat: A sneak peek into Rabbi Gardenswartz's sermon
Jan 23, 2021
Talmud Class: What Does Klete Keller Teach Us About Human Nature, Our Beloved Country, and What We Can Do Now?
Jan 16, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Dickens and Democracy with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jan 09, 2021
Shabbat Sermon: Not Haunted by What Might Have Been with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Dec 26, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Hitting the Wall with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Dec 19, 2020
Talmud on Shabbat Class: Is it Possible for a Leader to Be Effective--and Loved by All?
Dec 19, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: The Moral Dimension of Happiness with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Dec 12, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Amazing What You Can See When You Really Look with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Dec 05, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: More Than Our Situation with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Nov 28, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Raising The Cup We’ve Got with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 21, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Keep Walking with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Nov 14, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: For a Nation United in Worry: We Strongly Disagree, And I Love You Anyway with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 07, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Two Abrahams Emerge From Depression with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 31, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Noah and the Pope with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Oct 24, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Seth or Abraham? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 17, 2020
Yikzor Sermon: When You Are a Duck and It is Raining Outside with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 10, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Reading Kohelet with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Oct 04, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Sliding Doors with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Oct 03, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Your Final Chapter, Not Your Finest Chapter with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 28, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: For the Sin of Being an Arrogant Sheep with Rabbi Aliza Berger
Sep 26, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Infinite Good with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 20, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Lord of the Flies with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Sep 19, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Stamina — When You Are in the Shadows with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 19, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Block Out to Dial In: A Strategy for Hineni in the Age of Covid with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 12, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Ours For Now, Not Forever with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 05, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Flow with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Aug 29, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Do We Believe in a God Who Punishes Us for Our Sins? A Question for the Elul of Covid-19 with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Aug 22, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: What’s cooking? with Rabbi Aliza Berger
Aug 15, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: BDS: Boycott, Divestment and Sanction of Only One State, the Jewish State – Hateful Ideas Have Hateful Consequences with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Aug 08, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Cancel Culture with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jul 18, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Is It Possible to Be At Peace in the Middle of a Pandemic? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jul 11, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Pivot with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jul 04, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Lessons from a 6th grader with Rabbi Aliza Berger
Jun 27, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: But What About Black Anti-Semitism? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 20, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Time to Drag Out Our Mattresses with Rabbi Aliza Berger
Jun 13, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Somebody’s Baby with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Jun 06, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Abra Kadabra with Rabbi Aliza Berger
May 23, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Murder Hornets with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
May 16, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Bigger with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 09, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Unflattening Time with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
May 02, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: More is More with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 25, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Lord, Please Help Me Be Gentle With Myself with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 18, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: How Can We Keep From Singing? with Rabbi Aliza Berger
Apr 11, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: What Really Matters — a Contemporary, Coronavirus Dayeinu with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 10, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Do What You Can with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Apr 09, 2020
Talmud Class: Are You Afraid to Leave Your Cave?
Mar 28, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Blind Faith with Rabbi Aliza Berger
Mar 28, 2020
Talmud Class: A Post-Gaza War Reading of the Binding of Isaac
Mar 28, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Your Finest Hour with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 21, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Where Are You Going? With Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Mar 14, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Building a Jewish Future in Krakow
Mar 05, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Don’t be Indifferent – Make a Difference with Rabbi Aliza Berger
Feb 29, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Talk To with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Feb 22, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Kvell with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Feb 15, 2020
Shabbat Shirah Sermon – Cantor Elias Rosemberg
Feb 09, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: Daily Page with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 25, 2020
Shabbat Sermon: @LAPDHQ with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Dec 14, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Gratitude Is Not Just a Feeling with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 30, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: The Tested One is Also the Blessed One with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 16, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Beyond the Hashtag with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Nov 09, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: When Suffering and Blessing Are Inexplicably Intertwined: Reflections on the First Yahrtzeit of the Pittsburgh Massacre with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 26, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Something Left to Prove? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 19, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Overnight Millionaire with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Oct 17, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Love with Rabbi Michelle Robinson
Oct 05, 2019
From the Bimah Interview: Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz with Pre-Neilah Speaker, Pastor Jeremy Battle
Sep 27, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Rebbe, Please Give Me Fervor! with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 25, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Be Like Taylor Swift’s Seventh Album, Not Her Sixth with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Sep 14, 2019
From the Bimah Interview: “Entering into a Brit Hashem, Together” with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger and special guest Rabbi Becky Silverstein
Sep 12, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Take Your Best Shot with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Aug 31, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: "The Jewish American Paradox" with author Robert Mnookin
Aug 27, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Nachus: A Reinterpretation with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Aug 24, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Sending Thoughts and Prayers with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Aug 10, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Believe Me When I Tell You Who I Am with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jul 27, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Go Fish with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jul 13, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Piano Concertos and Prophecy with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jun 22, 2019
Shavuot Sermon: The Spiritual Assignment with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jun 10, 2019
From the Bimah Interview: Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz and Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger with Ugandan Human Rights Activist, Qwin Mbabazi, Celebrates One Year of Political Asylum in Boston
Jun 07, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Linden Tree with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jun 01, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: The Real Yous with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 25, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Pushed and Pulled with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 18, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: In The Wake of San Diego: What Can I Do? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
May 04, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: The Problem of Recency with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 27, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Half Hallel: Our Passover Challenge with Rav-Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 26, 2019
Chamber Music Concert Sneak Peak with Constantine Finehouse
Apr 24, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Beyond Linens ‘N Things with Rav-Hazzan Aliza Berger
Apr 20, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Conviction and Humility with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Apr 13, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Helicopters, Teacups, and Swimmers with Rabbi Gardenswartz
Mar 30, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Esther Syndrome with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Mar 23, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Counter World with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 16, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: You Just Won the Lottery. Now What? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Mar 09, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Jewish for Today with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Feb 23, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: May Your Light Make You More Whole with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Feb 16, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: The Goat Does Not Go it Alone with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Feb 09, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Deer in the Condo with Rav Hazzan Aliza Berger
Jan 26, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Their Battle That You Know Nothing About with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Jan 05, 2019
Shabbat Sermon: Becoming a Multiplier with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Dec 22, 2018
Shabbat Sermon: After the Crash with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Dec 15, 2018
Shabbat Sermon: Love in Paradise with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Dec 08, 2018
Shabbat Sermon: A Song That Plays On with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Nov 24, 2018