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Having celebrated the completion of another Torah reading cycle this past week, we once again go back to the beginning.

My sermon on Erev Yom Kippur 5787 In our Jewish tradition, we like to end our prayers with words of peace.

I don’t know what the over/under is on my sermon topic tonight but I’m going to guess that a number of you here tonight believe it is going to be the “Seven Things I Learned On My Sabbatical.”

A prayer for peace and healing, after the Aleynu:עַל כֵּןנְקַוֶּה לְּךָה' אֱלהֵינוּ לִרְאות מְהֵרָהAl Ken Nekaveh Lecha Adonai EloheynuLirot MeheyraAnd soWe put our hope in You,Our God,That soon we will witness:That all are safe and seenand all are fed and

We might not expect to find a statement of economic equity tucked into the description of animal sacrifices in the book of Leviticus, but that is exactly what we find in this week’s Torah portion.

I’m not deeply into the superhero genre, but I saw many of the Marvel movies with my sons and there has always been one scene about the Hulk that always stood out to me and I think about often.

Today is the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, signed on this day in 1942 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, establishing the Japanese internment during WWII.

I watch “Fiddler on the Roof” at least once a year, usually on Christmas Day when my congregation partners with our local independent cinema to show the 1971 classic.

When we come to this week’s Torah portion, I always think about the scene from The Godfather, Part II when Michael Corleone tells his button man Al Neri that he doesn’t want anything to happen to Fredo, his brother who betrayed him, while their mother is…

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