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Torah Thoughts – Emor – Leviticus.21.1-24.23 – “The Spoken Word”
The name of this week’s Torah portion. Emor, comes from the root of one of the common words – ויאמר (vayomer). Normally Torah portions are named after an unusual word in the few verses of the portion to help assist the…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Yerushalayim Shel Zahav, (Jerusalem of Gold) Sung by Shuli Nathan
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Torah Thoughts – Acharei Mot-Kedoshim – Leviticus 16:1-20:27 – “Happy 75th Birthday Israel!”
Seventy-five years ago this past Wednesday David Ben Gurion stood up in Independence Hall in Tel Aviv and announced to the world on live radio: “WE, MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE’S COUNCIL, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISRAEL AND OF…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Deborah Sacks Mintz singing Lincoln’s Nigun – Yamin U’smol by Joey Weisenberg of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute
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Torah Thoughts – Tazria-Metzorah – Leviticus.12.1-15.33 – “Let This Not Be the Last of Us”
Cordeyceps is the fungus that infects humans in HBO’s “The Last of Us” that turns them into zombies. In the television series based on a hit video game, global warming enables this real fungus that causes ants to dig their…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – L’cha Dodi by D’ror Sinai From A Mizrahi Shabbat at Sinai Temple, Los Angeles
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Torah Thoughts – Shmini – Leviticus.9.1-11.47 – “Who Knows 8? I Know 8”
For those of you, who attended our first ever joint second night Passover Seder with Temple Beth Zion, you know that eight is the day of the Brit Mila. Rabbi Brent held up two fingers to look like scissors and…
Cantor’s Pick of the Week – Kiddush for Passover – Blessing over the wine Sung by Richard Tucker (1913-1975) Metropolitan Opera tenor
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Torah Thoughts – Passover – “The Burning Bush is a Blackberry Bush”
I wrote the poem. And then I rewrote it and made it worse. I thought time would heal it. Time passed. I did research: Exodus, midrash, my mother. I rewrote the poem. I ate fistfuls of soft berries. Navy lips.…