Josh FranklinJosh Franklin
Rabbi at The Jewish Center of the Hamptons
East Hampton, NY•Hebrew Union College•Clark University•Website•
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The Sin of Avoiding Joy- Naso
289 Views•June 6, 2022•Naso,Vows,Food,Wine,Sin,Joy,Nazarites
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Pregnant Emptiness- לא דבר ריק היא
929 Views•September 26, 2020•Nadav,Empty,Silence,Abihu,Emptiness,Ayin
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Midrash on Revelation (Shavuot)
6557 Views•April 3, 2017
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Pirke Avot: Silence....
12669 Views•November 13, 2017•Pirke Avot
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The Wilderness
2382 Views•May 18, 2018•Midbar,Desert,Shavuot,Bamidbar,Revelation
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Won't Stop Until the Break of Dawn
4170 Views•March 26, 2018•Haggadah,Passover,Seder
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The Secret of 5 in the Passover Seder
645 Views•April 23, 2022•Elijah,Pesach,Passover,Eliyahu,4 Questions,4 Children
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Questions and Passover
989 Views•March 19, 2018•The Four Sons,Mah Nishtanah,Seder,Haggadah,Passover
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Shabbat Home Prayers: Candles, Kiddush, Shalom Aleichem, Motzi
18438 Views•June 7, 2016•Prayers of Shabbat•Shabbat,Candles,Shalom Aleichem,Motzi,Kiddush,Angels
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Chanukah Unpacked: Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai Chanukah
394 Views•December 5, 2024•Chanukah Unpacked•Chanukah,Shammai,Menorah,Beit Hillel
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Chanukah Unpacked: Pirsum HaNes Revisited
695 Views•December 4, 2024•Chanukah Unpacked•Pirsum Hanes,Titus,Arch of Titus,Chanukah
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Chanukah Unpacked: The Hasmoneans
559 Views•December 4, 2024•Chanukah Unpacked•Hasmoneans,Maccabees,Menorah,Chanukiah,Chanukah
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Haran
192 Views•December 2, 2024
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Parables of Repentance/Forgivness Jewish and Christian Parables with Rev. Ben Shambaugh and Rabbi Josh Franklin
636 Views•July 22, 2024•Jewish and Christian Parables•Christianity,Jesus,Forgiveness,Atonement
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Who is Your Neighbor? Jewish and Christian Parables (Rabbi Josh Franklin and Rev Ben Shambaugh)
543 Views•July 15, 2024•Jewish and Christian Parables•Agape,Christian,Shammai,Jesus,Tanchuma,Love,Hillel,New Testament
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Haran - The Crossroads of Life
632 Views•June 11, 2024•Charan,Crossroads,Haran,Isaac,Jacob,Abraham,Hannah Senesh
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The Meitzar הַ֭מֵּצַ֥ר
772 Views•December 4, 2023•Sheol,Jonah,Psalms,Egypt,Meitzar,Narrow,Pit
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Jewish Tales and Parables: Hearing
320 Views•June 30, 2023•Shema,Hearing
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Jewish Tales and Parables: Tales of Tears
855 Views•July 18, 2023•Jewish Tales and Parables•Vulnerability,Tears,Crying
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Jewish Stories and Parables: Loosen the Reins
958 Views•June 28, 2023•Jewish Tales and Parables•Hassidism,Control,Stress,Ego,Power
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Jewish Tales and Parables: Stories of the Yetzer Hara (The Primal Inclination)
949 Views•July 28, 2023•Jewish Tales and Parables•Evil,Yetzer Tov,Yetzer Hara,Yetzer
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Jewish Tales and Parables: The Messiah Has Not Yet Come
535 Views•June 26, 2023•Jewish Tales and Parables•Hassidism,Messiah
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Jewish Tales and Parables: Stories of Shabbat
827 Views•August 17, 2023•Jewish Tales and Parables•Baal Shem Tov,Shimon Bar Yochai,Shabbat,Sabbath,Besht
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Call Me Mara: Sweetening That Which Is Bitter
821 Views•May 15, 2023•Shavuot,Bitterness,Book of Ruth,Ruth,Naomi
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Pirke Avot: The Four Types of People
224 Views•April 25, 2023•Pirke Avot•Avot
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Pirke Avot: Eliezer Ben Hyrcanus and Yehoshua Ben Hanania... and Rabbi Tarfon
910 Views•March 31, 2023•Pirke Avot•Hillel,Eliezer,Shamai,Hanania,Tarfon,Yehoshua
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Back to Hagar
556 Views•November 19, 2022•Hagar,Geir,Abraham,Strangeness
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Who Opens Eyes That Cannot See
119 Views•July 14, 2022•Balaam,Saul,Blindness,David
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Pirke Avot - Yehudah HaNasi
935 Views•March 13, 2023•Pirke Avot•Judah,Yehudah HaNasi,Judah the Prince,Rav,Judah the Patriacrch,Yehudah
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Pirke Avot: Hillel
1279 Views•March 1, 2023•Pirke Avot•Hillel,Pirke Avot
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Pirke Avot Intro
494 Views•March 6, 2023•Pirke Avot•Ethics of the Fathers,Moses,Pirke Avot,Sinai
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Let All Who Are Thirsty Come and Drink: Finding Spirituality/Torah in Places You Might Not Expect
579 Views•December 22, 2022•Mekhilta,Joseph,Torah,Water,Pit,Spirituality
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Messengers From God? - Vayeshev
188 Views•December 16, 2022•Joseph,Vayeshev,Malach,Angels,Messenger
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Was Noah Righteous?
3368 Views•October 18, 2017
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With the Tempest God Breaks us and Heals Us
132 Views•October 4, 2022•Tempest,Yom Kippur,Job,Storm,Jonah
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Ruth and the Quality of חן
897 Views•June 5, 2022•Grace,Chen,Responsibility,Favor
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Meanings and Metaphors for Torah
1073 Views•May 19, 2018•Fig,Torah,Water,Tree,Metaphor
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Lex Talionis - The Law of Retaliation
2036 Views•May 14, 2022•Eye for an Eye,Vengeance,Lex Talionis,Revenge
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Psalm 27
2352 Views•August 28, 2021•Psalms
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Psalm 23: A Psalm of Presence
2914 Views•November 4, 2021•Psalms•Shadow of Death,Shepherd,Psalms,Psalm 23
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Wisdom Psalms: Psalm 1, 19, 27
1610 Views•September 29, 2021•Psalms•Psalm 1,Psalm 19,Wisdom,Torah,Psalm,Psalm 27,Water,Tree
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Psalms of Zion: 48, 126, 137
2910 Views•November 12, 2021•Psalms•Israel,Psalm,Jerusalem,Zion,Psalms
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Psalms of Ascent: Psalm 121, 124, 133
3557 Views•November 12, 2021•Psalms•Shir Lamalot,Ascent,Mountains,Psalms
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Hallelujah Psalms: 145, 146, 148, 150
2185 Views•December 1, 2021•Psalms•Hallelujah,Gratitude,Psalms
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Savlanut -Patience
1259 Views•March 29, 2021•Mussar
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Mussar - Humility ענוה
2940 Views•March 15, 2021•Mussar
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What is Mussar
1028 Views•March 22, 2021•Mussar
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Mussar- Rachamim
2107 Views•April 5, 2021•Mussar
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Bitachon Trust
1905 Views•April 19, 2021•Mussar
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זרע or זרה The Blessing/Limits of Making Things Strange
546 Views•March 31, 2022•Strangeness,Tazria,Questions,Seed,Passover,Four Questions
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Kaddish קדיש
34550 Views•May 6, 2016•Prayers of Shabbat•Mourner's Kaddish,Akiva,Kaddish,Kaddish,Mourning,Death,World to Come
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Joseph and Judah: The Pit and the Rope
912 Views•December 10, 2021•Vayigash,Joseph,Judah,Rope,Pit
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Understanding Amalek
751 Views•January 12, 2022•Purim,Beshalach,Hur,Amalek,Haman,B'shalach,Aaron
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Where to Find God?
1516 Views•February 5, 2022•Mishkan,Dwelling,Terumah,Shechina
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Finding Community- Vayakhel
122 Views•February 26, 2022•Community,Vayakhel,Moses,Kehilah
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God’s Justice or Mercy - Ki Tisa
1216 Views•February 19, 2022•Mercy,Compassion,Rachamim,God's Prayer,Ki Tisa,Moses,Justice
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The Torah Service
2635 Views•March 1, 2022•Prayers of Shabbat•Siddur,Torah,Life,Sinai,Garden of Eden,Tree,Prayerbook
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Being Called
1113 Views•March 12, 2022•Calling,Small Aleph,Aleph,Moses
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Hashkiveinu השכיבנו
77145 Views•March 13, 2016•Prayers of Shabbat•Darkness,Psalm 121,Light,Creation,Geula,Shekhinah,Protection,Sleep,Night,Hashkiveinu,Redemption
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Kabbalat Shabbat
2407 Views•December 1, 2020•Prayers of Shabbat•Anna B'koach,Kabbalat Shabbat,Lechad Dodi,Shabbat,Psalms
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Psalms of Disorientation: 13, 22, 88, 130
1615 Views•October 25, 2021•Psalms•Depression,Psalm 88,Psalm 22,Psalm 13,Psalm 130,Disorientation
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Who is Hagar?
1162 Views•October 16, 2021•Abraham,Abram,Hagar,Sarah,Egypt
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Sotah as a Separating Equalibrium
267 Views•May 16, 2021•Divorce,Adultry,Sotah,Infidelity
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Was Moses's Wife a Cushite?
986 Views•May 29, 2021•Miriam,Kush,Moses
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A Look at Vowing נדרים
1165 Views•July 21, 2017
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Emet - Truth- Mussar
2520 Views•May 2, 2021
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The Small Aleph of Vayikra
2919 Views•March 17, 2021•Parashat Vayikra,Laws of Scribes,Minuscule,Chronicles,Adam,Vayikra,Moses
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The Opposite of Coveting is . . . . Gratitude
686 Views•February 5, 2021•Gratitude,Covet,10 Commandments
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The Burning Palace Wonder and Responsibility
1928 Views•January 27, 2021•Lech Lecha,Responsibility,Abraham,Fire,Palace,Wonder
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Instruments on Shabbat
1325 Views•November 10, 2020•Music,Shofar,Instruments,Psalm 92,Shvut
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The Meaning Within a Name Change
2874 Views•June 7, 2018•Moses,Leadership,Hoshea,David,Joshua,Yehoshua
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איכה Where are You/How Could You
2171 Views•July 29, 2020•Jerusalem,Ayeka,Tisha B'av,Eicha,Av,Lamentations,Jeremiah
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The Spiritual Malady Tzaraat
795 Views•April 25, 2020•Tazriah,Tzaraat,Leporsy,Naaman
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Midrash on the Golden Calf
1960 Views•February 17, 2020•God,Ki Tisa,Women,Aaron,Chur,Prayer,Hur,Moses,Golden Calf
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Midrash on Potiphar's Wife (Zuleika)
5094 Views•December 16, 2019•Vayeshev,Yetzer,Sex,Potiphar,Joseph,Aesnath
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Midrash on the Yetzer Hara
3922 Views•December 2, 2019•Yetzer,Sin,Yetzer Hatov,Creation,Yetzer Hara,Yom Kippur
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Milk + Meat = ?
1112 Views•May 3, 2019
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Four Types of People
658 Views•April 2, 2018•Poverty,Sodom,Money,Tzedakah,Justice
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Sitting or Standing for the Shema? Berachot 10b-11a
1586 Views•April 11, 2019•Shma,Beit Hillel,Liturgy,Shema
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Midrash on Purim
9362 Views•March 6, 2017
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The Tower of Bavel and Language
2125 Views•October 11, 2018•Hebrew,Language,Speech,Babel
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Walking, and not Standing
663 Views•September 15, 2018•Lech,Teshuvah,Going,Walking,Shuvah
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Numbers 20: רב מר מורים מרים
979 Views•June 23, 2018
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Building a Fence Around Torah
9809 Views•May 14, 2018•Torah,Pirke Avot,Midrash,Fence
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What is קָדוֹשׁ (Holiness)
31947 Views•January 15, 2016•Community,Shabbat,Holiness,Holy People
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Yochanan Ben Zakkai and Yavne
5171 Views•April 23, 2018
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The Origins of the Amidah
10231 Views•April 6, 2016•Geniza,Mindfulness,Prayer,T'filah,Cairo Geniza,אמידה,Shmoneh Esreh,Jerusalem,Kavanah,Heretics,Kavanah,David,Amidah,Amidah
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Rav Yochanan and Reish Lakish
6209 Views•April 9, 2018
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Arami Oved Avi
2129 Views•March 23, 2018•Seder,Passover,Mishnah,Memory,Haggadah
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Vayikra: What is this ritual that YOU are doing?!?!
1472 Views•March 16, 2018•Vayikrah,Seder,Sacrifice,Community,Passover,Haggadah,The Four Sons
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Moses in Akiva's Classroom
1692 Views•March 12, 2018
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Kamtza and Bar Kamtza
8106 Views•March 5, 2018
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Pirke Avot: Interdependent Pairs
4579 Views•January 29, 2018•Torah,Community,Wisdom,Leadership,Pirkei Avot,Derech Eretz
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Rahav in Midrash
3806 Views•July 25, 2017
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Pirke Avot: Arguing for the Sake of Heaven
2928 Views•January 22, 2018•Hillel,Discussion,Elu V'Elu,Pirke Avot,Hillel and Shammai,Civil Discourse,Debate
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Darkness, the 9th Plauge
2423 Views•January 20, 2018•Plagues,Exodus,Darkness,Ten Plagues,Light,Creation,Passover,Tanakh
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Pirke Avot: Chesed
8474 Views•January 15, 2018•Chesed,Kindness,Love,Pirke Avot
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Pirke Avot: A look at Sin
3619 Views•January 8, 2018•Chet,Torah,Averah,Transgression,Pirke Avot,Sin
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Pirke Avot: Order and Disorder
2798 Views•December 18, 2017•Pirkei Avot,Seder,Torah,Chaos,Prayer,Disorder,Order
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Familiarity and Strangeness נכר
1343 Views•December 14, 2017•Joseph,Familiarity,Nochri,Stranger
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Pirke Avot: Who is Mighty?
2588 Views•December 12, 2017•Yetzer Hara,Esau,Zoma,Joseph,Pirke Avot,Jacob,Yetzer,Pirkei Avot
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Pirke Avot: Ego
4356 Views•December 4, 2017•Hillel,Middot,Leadership,Ego,Humility,Moses,Pirkei Avot
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Mental Health Reflection
2961 Views•November 17, 2017
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Pirke Avot: Laziness
2339 Views•November 9, 2017•Work,Enthusiasm,Laziness,Pirke Avot
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I speak and I create אברא כדברא
7457 Views•September 6, 2017
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Our Responsibility for Refugees
2095 Views•March 23, 2016•Ger,Exodus,Darkness,Stranger,Egypt,Sojourner,9th Plague,Passover,In Every Generation,Neighbor
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Who is Keturah?
3974 Views•November 11, 2017
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Pirke Avot: How to Find Torah
3075 Views•November 5, 2017•Learning,Friendship,Torah,Community,Pirkei Avot
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The Sin of Sodom: Anti-Hospitality
2490 Views•November 3, 2017•Sodom,Gemorrah,Abraham,Hospitality
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Pirke Avot: Judgment
6316 Views•October 11, 2017•Din,Compassion,Judgement,Pirke Avot,Judging,Judge
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Pirke Avot: Why do Avodah?
4631 Views•October 29, 2017•Avodah,Pirkei Avot,Service,Incentives,Mitzvot
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Midrash on Rosh HaShanah
7235 Views•October 1, 2016•Zikaron,Teruah,Shofar
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Kohelet: All is הבל
5661 Views•October 3, 2017
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Lecha Dodi
39255 Views•March 2, 2016•Kabbalah,Kabbalah,Hitbodedut,Kabbalat Shabbat,Lecha Dodi,Hitbodedut,Kabbalat Shabbat,Sephirot,Zohar,Mysticism,Lekha Dodi,Zohar
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Is a Tree a Man? Deuteronomy 20:19
3740 Views•August 23, 2017
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Do Not Make Factions
2646 Views•August 18, 2017
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Why do Mitzvot? עקב Because....
1038 Views•August 9, 2017
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Midrash on Bityah Daughter of Pharaoh
13140 Views•July 20, 2017
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Korach and Revolution
1154 Views•June 22, 2017
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Shalom and the Priestly Benediction
3308 Views•June 1, 2017
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Midrash on Passover
8233 Views•February 19, 2017
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B'tzelem Elohim בצלם אלהים
4950 Views•February 5, 2016•Holiness,Portraits,Image,Creation,B'tzelem Elohim,Image of God,Heschel,Humanity
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Enviornmental Responsibility- Bal Tashchit בל תשחית
3109 Views•January 23, 2017
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Vision
1125 Views•December 4, 2016
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The Cold and Broken yet Holy Hallelujah
4759 Views•November 27, 2016•Gratitude,David,Leonard Cohen,Modim
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Masks and Identity
2859 Views•March 1, 2016•Esther,Masks,Garments,Purim,Esau,Jacob,Clothing,Messiah,Identity
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Inclusivity
2911 Views•January 25, 2016•Jewish Education,Inclusivity,Diversity
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