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Crowd Sourcing Sermon for August 21

August 17, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

“On the Jewish High Holy Days, should we be praying mostly for the Jewish people, or for all humankind?” One of the innovations of the Reform Movement’s new High Holy […]

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Crowd Sourcing Sermon for August 14

August 10, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

“How can we use the month of Elul to prepare to turn the wrongs we have done into merits?” [From Mishkan HaNefesh, Yom Kippur service, new Reform High Holy Day […]

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Crowd Sourcing Topic for Sermon on August 7

August 5, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

Torah reading: Deut 10:12-14 What does the Pope’s encyclical mean for the Jewish community?   Text : The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few […]

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Why I am going to Susiya | Rebecca Strober | The Blogs | The Times of Israel

August 3, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

Why I am going to Susiya | Rebecca Strober | The Blogs | The Times of Israel. (Rebecca is the daughter of Fred Strober and grew up at RS)

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What responsibility do we share?

July 29, 2015 Posted By: cantorfrankel Uncategorized

What I love about our crowd-sourced sermons is that it doesn’t matter what I wanted to write about or say in relation to the text I presented, what interested you […]

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Crowd Sourced Sermon Topic for July 31st

July 28, 2015 Posted By: Rabbi Eli Freedman Uncategorized

“Better a piece of dry bread and tranquility with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.” (Proverbs 17:1) “If your wife is short, bend over to hear her […]

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Crowd Sourcing Sermon Topic for July 24

July 20, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

“Why do we confess to wrongs we have not personally committed? The 16th-century mystic Rabbi Isaac Luria teaches that the people of Israel may be likened to a body of […]

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Crowd Sourcing Sermon for July 19

July 12, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

“I want to make a confession, to give an accounting to myself, and to God.  In other words, to measure my life and actions against the lofty ideals I’ve set […]

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Crowd Sourcing Sermon Topic for July 10

July 5, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

From what person or event in Jewish history or in Jewish text tradition do you draw inspiration? From the new Yom Kippur Prayerbook (p 198) In the depths of the […]

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Crowd Sourcing Sermon for Friday, July 3

June 26, 2015 Posted By: rodephshalom Uncategorized

Freedom: Breaking the Bonds: In honor of the 4th of July, we celebrate the birth of our nation when we broke the bonds of tyranny and dedicated ourselves to freedom. […]

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