Rabbi's Update 8/12/2022
Dear Friends: A few notes on this beautiful Friday morning as we await Shabbat Nachamu, the Shabbat after Tisha B’Av when we seriously...
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rabbi423
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 8/10/2022
Dear Friends: Last week we began to read the book of Deuteronomy which is the final book of the Torah. For the most part it consists of...
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rabbi423
- Aug 5
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 8/5/2022
Dear Friends: Wednesday morning I sent out my first “Rabbi’s Update” after returning from vacation but with Tisha B’Av on the horizon, I...
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rabbi423
- Aug 3
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 8/3/2022
Dear Friends: Saturday night and Sunday we observe Tisha B’Av, the Ninth of Av where we commemorate the destruction of both the First and...
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rabbi423
- Jul 1
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 7/1/2022
Dear Friends: This is the last “Rabbi’s Update” you will receive from me until the beginning of August, as I start four weeks of vacation...
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rabbi423
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 6/29/2022
Dear Friends: Twenty-five years ago I spent almost a year living and teaching at a Trappist monastery. I got to know the brothers quite...
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rabbi423
- Jun 27
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 6/27/2022
Dear Friends: In 2011 I was the chair of the Ethics Commission for the City of Norwich, CT. An ethics complaint was filed against a...
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rabbi423
- Jun 24
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/24/2022
Dear Friends: Last night a group of us began our study of Talmud tractate Pesachim, Chapter 10, which deals with the history and laws of...
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rabbi423
- Jun 22
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 6/22/2022
Dear Friends: As you may have seen in the news, the governing coalition in Israel has decided to dissolve the Knesset and call for new...
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rabbi423
- Jun 20
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/20/2022
Dear Friends: I want to invite you to participate in a new adult education class which will start in the fall but be previewed this...
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rabbi423
- Jun 17
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/17/2022
Dear Friends: A few quick notes before this Father’s Day and Juneteenth weekend: * We welcome Mike Goldman’s brother Al who is visiting...
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rabbi423
- Jun 15
- 3 min
Rabbi's Update 6/15/2022
Dear Friends: Tomorrow night after minyan I plan to continue my discussion of the intersection of First Amendment legal concerns and the...
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rabbi423
- Jun 13
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/13/2022
Dear Friends: On Friday some of you may have tried to sign up to attend Shabbat morning services in person and found that you couldn’t...
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rabbi423
- Jun 10
- 2 min
Rabbi’s Update 6/10/2022
Dear Friends: This week’s parasha contains the precise wording of Birkat Kohanim, the Priestly Blessing: The LORD bless you and protect...
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rabbi423
- Jun 8
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/8/2022
Dear Friends: We want to congratulate Julie Pfefer and Jay Scheiner and their families, including Jay’s parents and our active members...
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rabbi423
- Jun 3
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/3/2022
Dear Friends: Plans for Shavuot We will be joining the Conservative Movement’s third online Tikkun Leil Shavuot beginning Saturday night,...
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rabbi423
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 6/1/2022
Dear Friends: Plans for Shavuot We will be joining the Conservative Movement’s third online Tikkun Leil Shavuot beginning Saturday night,...
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Douglas Baum
- May 29
- 1 min
Shabbat at Kehilat Shalom
Uplifting Shabbat as more members return to the building. Hazzan Komrad and Bryan Levenson did a fine job leading services. Charlotte...
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rabbi423
- May 27
- 2 min
Rabbi's Update 5/27/2022
Dear Friends: You may know that there was a shtetl in Eastern Europe known as Chelm which was populated primarily by fools. On the road...
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rabbi423
- May 25
- 4 min
Rabbi's Update 5/25/2022
Dear Friends: We wake up this morning and the death count in yesterday’s massacre in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is now 19...
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