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Welcome to Dilemmas, Temple Solel's podcast where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
Welcome to Dilemmas, Temple Solel's podcast where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
Welcome to Dilemmas, Temple Solel's podcast where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
Welcome to Dilemmas, Temple Solel's podcast where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
This is the season finale of Dilemmas and we're so thankful for all who submitted to us this summer. Thank you. We'll be back with more podcasts soon! Welcome to a new Quest for the Questions series, Dilemmas, where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net Episode segmentsEdit audio
Welcome to a new Quest for the Questions series, Dilemmas, where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
Welcome to a new Quest for the Questions series, Dilemmas, where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
Last week's episode was titled incorrectly. This is the actual, "Go Fund Yourself" episode! Welcome to a new Quest for the Questions series, Dilemmas, where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
Welcome to a new Quest for the Questions series, Dilemmas, where we embark on thought-provoking journeys that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
In the first episode of this new Quest for the Questions series, Dilemmas, we embark on a thought-provoking journey that dissects and explores the complex moral quandaries submitted by the members of Temple Solel. Hosted by Alexis Berk, Senior Rabbi, and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast series aims to shed light on the dilemmas that challenge our values and test our judgment. Learn more about Temple Solel - templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the minute, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the minute, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the minute, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net Learn more about Eid Al-Banat HERE.
Kol Nidre message from Rabbi Linder at Temple Solel
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the minute, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the minute, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Get ready for the High Holy Days by intentionally disrupting your every day rhythm. What does that mean? Find out in this episode. Quest for the Questions explores the great, the granular, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths and mysteries. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. Submit your own question for Rabbi Berk and it may be used in a future podcast: https://anchor.fm/templesolel/message To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Links from our discussion with Cantor Billy Tiep: Yeminite chanting of torah - melismatic and very rhythmic Shir Hashirim Quest for the Questions explores the great, the minute, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
What makes a Jew, a Jew? Is it a faith, an ethnicity, a race, something else? Who belongs - and who gets to decide? Quest for the Questions explores the great, the granular, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths and mysteries. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. Submit your own question for Rabbi Berk and it may be used in a future podcast: https://anchor.fm/templesolel/message To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the granular, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths and mysteries. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. Submit your own question for Rabbi Berk and it may be used in a future podcast: https://anchor.fm/templesolel/message To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the granular, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths and mysteries. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. Submit your own question for Rabbi Berk and it may be used in a future podcast: https://anchor.fm/templesolel/message To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the granular, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths and mysteries. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. Submit your own question for Rabbi Berk and it may be used in a future podcast: https://anchor.fm/templesolel/message To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the granular, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths and mysteries. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. Submit your own question for Rabbi Berk and it may be used in a future podcast: https://anchor.fm/templesolel/message To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Quest for the Questions explores the great, the minute, and the most ridiculous Jewish myths and mysteries. Hosted by Rabbi Alexis Berk and Terry Wunder, Director of Community Engagement, this podcast mini-series was created at Temple Solel in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, a Reform Jewish community. In this episode we introduce the podcast, explore the role of questions in Judaism, and hear from Jane about cremation and getting yourself hyped up, day in and day out, to create and lead Jewish community. This is episode 1 of 4 in our first season. Episodes 2-4 are about 30 minutes long. To learn more about our community, the podcast, and the hosts, visit: templesolel.net
Rabbi Stiel from Temple Solel Erev Shabbat May 27 2022 Cantorial Soloist Todd Herzog closes with Blowing in the Wind- Dylan
“Unwashed, Unmasked, Unbothered?” A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli with Foundry UMC, August 29, 2021, the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 “Is it bad to be really ticked off at people who won't mask or get vaccinated?” I received this text several weeks ago from a member of the Foundry family. And, since then, I've received versions of the same question again and again. Headlines proliferate about the appalling behavior of citizens in school board and city council meetings and clashes between parents, teachers, and governors about the use of masks. And of course there are countless personal stories of church and family strife caused by the divides around vaccination, masking, and other public health protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The accounts I'm reading, and receiving about what some folks are saying and doing really make it seem like we're experiencing some kind of collective mental break—because either I'm losing my faculties of reason and proportion or a whole bunch of my siblings are. Other common headlines these days highlight the stories of outspoken anti-vax, anti-mask advocates suffering and dying from the virus. And data points like: “About 99% of deaths today are people who did not get vaccinated. Patients dying in hospitals are telling loved ones they regret not getting the vaccine.” But of course any of these last points can and have been brushed off as inaccurate or hyperbole. One article I read chronicled the author's effort to understand the reasoning of her brother who refuses to get vaccinated. What she receives seems reflective of much of what I've heard elsewhere. At the heart of it all, is lack of trust. Many people: Don't trust the actual vaccine (side effects and breakthrough cases) Don't trust the messengers (politicized–FDA a government organization could have been pressured to approve) Don't trust the data (unvaccinated passing to children? Children COVID data vs. other risks… the continued mutations…CDC wrong on a lot?) The lack of trust is understandable since blatant misinformation has been allowed to spread unchecked all over social media from the start. Also, at the beginning of the pandemic, the former president downplayed the severity of the virus, decided to make masks a symbol of “liberal” oppression instead of a time-tested deterrent against dangerous infectious disease, and treated public health scientists who have decades of faithful service under their belt as if they are the enemy. The reaction—perhaps “overreaction”—from the other side of the aisle to shut and keep most everything shut down, whether it was well-intentioned or not, did its own damage to lives and livelihoods. A headline from the Brookings Institution last September summed up a key point, namely that “Politics is wrecking America's pandemic response.” Alongside these concerns is the reality that, as one scholar puts it, “If you aren't white, you know a history that may make you weary about what the medical sector may be telling you to do.” For those who may not know that history, “The medical establishment has a long history of mistreating Black Americans — from gruesome experiments on enslaved people to the forced sterilizations of Black women and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study that withheld treatment from hundreds of Black men for decades to let doctors track the course of the disease…” More recent “studies have found Black Americans are consistently undertreated for pain relative to white patients; one revealed half of medical students and residents held one or more false beliefs about supposed biological differences between Black and white patients.” Vaccine hesitancy among people of color is understandable due to these factors, though both Dr. Anthony Fauci and Rev. Jesse Jackson have used their platforms to make sure the public knows a leading researcher and developer for the vaccine at the National Institutes of Health is immunologist and professor, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman. My intention today is not to name all the dynamics of the debacle that is the American public's response to COVID—as if that would be possible. But I do want to at least acknowledge some of the issues in the mix. And, as is most often the case, there's much more than one narrative at play. What does our narrative from the Gospel according to Mark have to add to all this? These days, when there is an encounter between Jesus and the Pharisees in the text, I often turn to my Rabbi—friend and colleague Steve Weisman of Temple Solel in Bowie, MD—to receive insight. What he confirmed for me is that much of the purity ritual referred to in the Torah has to do with the “order” of things in creation and with boundaries that allow for clarity of identity and relationship. Rabbi Steve says that the purity stuff in the Bible is about “teaching the ability to self-limit, so as not to risk getting ‘out of our lane' in our relationship to and with God, and respecting the sanctity of Creation and Creator. Your offerings had to be pure, you yourself had to be ritually pure to bring them; in caring for the rest of creation, if we killed something to eat, we had a responsibility not to waste any of it…” This was a good reminder for me. The original idea for washing things was to acknowledge our need to present our best to God and to honor and care for one another and all creation. Embedded in the “law” was a call for self-discipline and reverence. You might even say that purification rituals began as a way to practice loving God and neighbor as ourselves. In our story today, Jesus is asked by some Pharisees and scribes why some of his disciples were eating without observing the religious tradition of washing their hands. Jesus takes the opportunity to teach, drawing on a common prophetic refrain and specifically using words from Isaiah 29:13—“This people honors me with their lips (“you're talking the talk”), but their hearts are far from me (but not “walking the walk”).” The NRSV translation of the passage in Isaiah continues, “and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote.” The issue seems to be that a spiritual practice of washing (not a bad thing in itself), a practice meant to draw people closer to God—can easily become a repetitive “going through the motions” that doesn't touch the heart. Jesus highlights the way that you can be “clean” on the outside but filled with things in your heart that are “defiling.” Oh, and check this out: the word for “defiling” is κοινόω, koinoó, which literally means “to make common,” and more nuanced, “to treat what is sacred as common or ordinary.” So the “stock list” of “defiling things” in verses 21-22 are simply things that don't honor the sacred worth of God, self, others, and the creation. What defiles is that which does harm. So what does any of this have to say to our current moment? Well, our text speaks to how a good thing can get twisted and used in a harmful way. Just as a spiritual discipline meant to inspire reverence and care can become a tool of judgment and exclusion, so can a cherished civic value like “liberty” become used as cover for the worst kind of exclusion and dishonoring the sacred worth of others. Liberty—or freedom—is a beautiful God-given gift. It's also a God-given responsibility. We have choices about how we use our freedom. Scripture says “for freedom Christ has set us free.” (Gal 5:1a) But Christ doesn't set us free to do anything we want. You're not set free so you can be a jerk. And that goes for whoever you are, whatever your politics, whatever your position on anything. Of course, right now people are using their freedom to be jerks in all kinds of ways. Jerkiness is equal-opportunity and non-partisan! AND there are those who claim their freedom is being assaulted by things like mask mandates for their children or vaccine requirements at their workplaces or physical distancing in public spaces. And I suppose that, technically, these folks' freedom to do whatever they want, including putting others in harm's way, is challenged by such mandates and requirements. These same (mostly white) people want to control all sorts of other things that curtail the freedom of others. So what does that tell us about their intentions? What is the freedom we are given in Jesus Christ? Freedom from sin—from that which defiles, from that which does harm to others and to creation. We are set free to live fully in God's grace and to participate in God's way of love and justice. Notice in verse 8 of our text today, Jesus says, “You abandon the commandment of God…” That's the danger. We know the great commandment: to love God with heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. The freedom we receive in Jesus Christ does not mean that “anything goes.” There are concrete practices that help form us in ways of self-discipline and reverence of God. There are boundaries that help us “stay in our lane” of right relationship with God and others. These are called “Christian ethics”—the way that love gets worked out in community. Love in community looks like justice, it looks like solidarity, it looks like communal support, sacrifice for the common good, compromise, collaboration, compassion, humility, mutuality, care, and personal and communal responsibility. The late pastor and prophet William Sloane Coffin said, “let others say, ‘Anything goes.' The Christian asks, ‘What does love require?' In short, we have come up with love as an answer to legalism on the one hand and lawlessness on the other. Love hallows individuality. Love consecrates and never desecrates personality. Love demands that all our actions reflect a movement toward and not away from nor against each other. And love insists that all people assume their responsibility for all their relations.” If any would claim to be followers of Jesus, then do what love requires. Right now there are people dying of treatable ailments because they couldn't get admitted to the hospitals overrun with mostly unvaccinated COVID patients. Our own Pastor Will's vaccinated, 84 year old confirmation mentor died recently in Arkansas in just such a scenario. The closest available hospital bed was evidently in Plano, TX. There are pastors being treated like public enemy #1 and run out of their churches because they have been consistent and insistent about safety protocols. There are increasing numbers of children contracting the virus. There are expired vaccines being thrown out because not enough people are receiving them. There is a threat of continued transmission or mutations of the virus that become increasingly contagious and difficult to treat. And consistently, public health experts affirm that vaccination, masking, distancing, and getting tested at the first sign of any symptoms are the best ways to contain the virus and get the pandemic under control. These practices allow us to be out and about without doing harm. From the beginning, we at Foundry have said that we will prioritize health and safety, honor the science, and be guided by public health experts. We've also consistently stated that wearing masks, distancing, quarantining when necessary, and getting vaccinated as able are all concrete ways that we love our neighbor as ourselves. I understand there are some for whom family dynamics or deep fear continue to present obstacles. Please know that your pastors are here to listen, think things through and pray with you. I'm also aware that there are those whose reactions to our stance will be dismissive at best, violently angry at worst. Which brings to mind the punchline of a favorite story I was told many years ago: When a “grandmotherly” type pastor was serving a small congregation and a gay couple wanted to join, some longtime members crashed the next Church Council meeting to protest. After the spokesperson had said his piece about blocking the couple from participation, the pastor who looked and acted like she could be everyone's smart, sassy, not-having-any-of-your-foolishness grandmother simply responded, “Oh Roger, that's not nice. Sit down and act like a Christian.” It's not a line I generally imagine I'll ever get away with. But it does occur to me from time to time. It occurs to me a lot these days. And today, I'm saying it outloud for whomever may need to hear it: For the love of God, neighbor, self, and all that is holy: wash your hands, get the vaccine (if and when you can), mask up, and—no matter where you find yourself in the mix—act like a Christian. https://foundryumc.org/archive
In this episode, Ali and I learn with Rabbi David Frank, former Senior Rabbi at Temple Solel in Cardiff, and Chief Jewish Officer at the San Diego Jewish Academy.
In this event, Rabbi Dr. Marc Gellman, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, NY, presents his virtual talk "Do Jews Believe in Heaven?" Thank you to our partner, Temple Solel of Paradise Valley https://templesolel.org/ DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/become-a-member Valley Beit Midrash is proud to host the Jaburg Wilk Learning Season. Learn more about Jaburg Wilk at: http://www.jaburgwilk.com/
Hot off the set of Episode XXI of PARKS PARTY CENTRAL on Facebook LIVE and on his 50th birthday, Craig Parks shares the good that has come to him with so much extra time on his has hands during the global pandemic lock down. With a guest appearance (@ 17:00) from another great Jewish singer/songwriter, Joe Buchanan LIVE from Houston, Tx, sings Craig a very special Happy Birthday melody. See the FB Live Video (not so live now) https://www.facebook.com/visualwow/videos/635770637345249/Learn more about Craig Parks at https://www.facebook.com/craig.parks.90 and hear his music below on Spotify.Like what you heard? Please leave comments or reviews on Apple Podcast or at www.VisualWOW.com. Thanks.
Rabbi Dr. Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine (https://www.tikkun.org/), presents his lecture "Lessons from 53 Years of Social Justice Activism" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Rabbi Michael Lerner, Ph.D., is a leading author, public intellectual, and spiritual leader. He is the founder and editor of Tikkun Magazine, the world’s most widely read and quoted liberal/progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine, started in 1986 as an alternative to the Jewish neo-conservatives. Tikkun Magazine has received numerous awards for its creative synthesis of progressive politics and spiritual wisdom. Rabbi Lerner is also the Co-founder and Chairperson of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, the Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (huc.edu/), presents his lecture "Is Our Time Unique? Jewish Social Responsibility in America Today!" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Widely respected for his scholarship, integrity, and menschlichkeit, Rabbi Ellenson’s collaborative leadership has reflected his commitment to advancing Jewish unity. He has forged closer ties between HUC-JIR and the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference, and the other arms of the Reform Movement. A DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/311CgAP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, the Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (http://huc.edu/), presents his lecture "Is Our Time Unique? Jewish Social Responsibility in America Today!" before a VIP audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/38G2z1U For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Marc Dollinger, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair, Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University, presents his lecture "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Professor Dollinger’s most recent book, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing The Alliance In The 1960s, takes a new and different look at Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement, showing how American Jews leveraged the Black Power movement to increase Jewish ethnic and religious identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Join us as we explore never-before-seen historical documents that reveal a story that’s been hidden from view for over half a century. With so much contemporary interest in Black Lives Matter and larger questions of race and justice, we’ll explore a fascinating and surprising Jewish past. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Zvi Zohar, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Sephardic Law and Ethics - Bar-Ilan University, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "All Jews are Jews by Birth: Are Jews a Faith Community?" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: A person born as a Jew remains a Jew, however s/he behaves. Surprisingly, this is stated in the Talmud only with regard to one kind of Jew: a former Gentile who became Jewish by the halakhic process of giyyur. Indeed, the Talmud says that such a person is like a newly-born (Jewish) child. We will read together sources that enable us to understand this view of giyyur as birth, and discuss the implications for our understanding of how the halakhic tradition understands Jewishness. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/33Tf4VM For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Udi Goren, travel photographer, speaker, educator, and writer (https://www.israeltrailtalk.com/), presents his lecture "The Many Faces of Jerusalem" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: 2017 marked 50 years to the Six-day War and going back to the old city of Jerusalem and the Jewish holy sites. The talk takes an in-depth look at this remarkable city, discussing different aspects and perspectives: spiritual / earthly, East / West, religious / secular, old / new, different religions, etc. It will make sense of all the scattered information people might have about the city, giving them a logical and cohesive idea of one of the oldest cities in the world. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Abby Stein, an activist, speaker, and author, presents her Valley Beit Midrash lecture "The Intersectionality of Gender and Jewish Identity" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: The story of a girl, raised as a boy in the Hasidic world, ordained as a Rabbi, then left and came out as a Trans-Women. This session will explore the intersecting worlds of the Hasidic Community, Education, arranged marriages in today’s America, LGBTQ issues, and the story of the first Ex-Hasidic Transgender support group. Abby will share her story via pictures, videos, some texts, and a lot of storytelling. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: Forthcoming For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/cbiaz twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Emily Langowitz, of Temple Solel, presents her lecture "Judaism and Reproductive Justice: Reframing the Jewish Conversation on Abortion from Torah to Today," before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: In this class we will explore the continuing dialogue within Judaism around issues of reproductive health, specifically focusing on abortion. We’ll take a look at the classic texts used as grounding for decision-making around this issue, and also expand our awareness to include modern feminist critique of traditional modes of discussing abortion. Finally, we will see how Reproductive Justice as a framework broadens our understanding both of the issue of abortion and of our own evolving Judaisms. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALAS: https://bit.ly/2Jr8GPf For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Noa Kushner, Founding Rabbi at The Kitchen (https://www.thekitchensf.org/), presents her Valley Beit Midrash discussion "Jewish Thought in Three Acts: Creation, Revelation, Redemption" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: How do we ask our most serious questions about the meaning of life and our place in the world? According to tradition, we look through our three primary stories of how we came to be (creation), who we are (leaving Egypt), and why (receiving Torah). Through these narratives, we can begin to see our way to awareness, responsibility and hope — as well as confront the darkness that arises and can be overcome in those same pivotal moments. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: To come For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah https://www.facebook.com/TheKitchensf/ www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Jonathan K. Crane, Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Dying to Die: Jewish Perspectives on End of Life Interventions" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Jonathan K. Crane, Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Few activities are as essential to human flourishing as eating, and fewer still are as ethically fraught. Eating well is particularly confusing. We live amid excess, faced with conflicting recommendations, contradictory scientific studies, and complex moral, medical, and environmental consequences that influence our choices. A new eating strategy is urgently needed, one grounded in ethics, informed by biology, supported by philosophy and theology, and, ultimately, personally achievable. Eating Ethically argues persuasively for more adaptive eating practices. Drawing on religion, medicine, philosophy, cognitive science, art, ethics, and more, Jonathan K. Crane shows how distinguishing among the eater, the eaten, and the act of eating promotes a radical reorientation away from external cues and toward internal ones. This turn is vital for survival, according to classic philosophy on appetite and contemporary studies of satiety, metabolic science as well as metaphysics and religion. By intertwining ancient wisdom from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with cutting-edge research, Crane concludes that ethical eating is a means to achieve both personal health and social cohesion. Grounded in science and tradition, Eating Ethically shows us what it truly means to eat well. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP PURCHASE THE BOOK: https://amzn.to/2VgrjHE For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Samuel Brody, assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "What Would God’s Economy Look Like?" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Jewish thinkers commonly argue that the Torah is meant to provide a complete, all-pervasive guide to Jewish life. And yet, for much of Jewish history, even while halakha could regulate the trade and business practices of Jewish individuals and firms, it never had the ability to prescribe rules for the very nature of the economy itself. With the rise of modern Jewish nationalist and socialist movements, Jews could think for the first time in centuries about the broad questions of political economy – production, distribution, and re-distribution – from the standpoint of Torah. This talk explores some of that recent thought, seeking to imagine what life would be like if Jews strove to model not just their transactions, but the very economy itself, according to God’s will. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2TBc3U7 For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ https://www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Steven Windmueller, the Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Service, presents his lecture "Why Now, Why Here: Anti-Semitism in America" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: This presentation focuses on the recent and rapid rise in anti-Semitism and seeks to explain why this is happening. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2O1SSSs For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ https://www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Naomi Levy (http://rabbinaomilevy.com/), presents her lecture "Einstein and the Rabbi" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: A bestselling author and rabbi’s profoundly affecting exploration of the meaning and purpose of the soul, inspired by the famous correspondence between Albert Einstein and a grieving rabbi. “A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness…” —Albert Einstein When Rabbi Naomi Levy came across this poignant letter by Einstein it shook her to her core. His words perfectly captured what she has come to believe about the human condition: That we are intimately connected, and that we are blind to this truth. Levy wondered what had elicited such spiritual wisdom from a man of science? Thus began a three-year search into the mystery of Einstein’s letter, and into the mystery of the human soul. What emerges is an inspiring, deeply affecting book for people of all faiths filled with universal truths that will help us reclaim our own souls and glimpse the unity that has been evading us. We all long to see more expansively, to live up to our gifts, to understand why we are here. Levy leads us on a breathtaking journey full of wisdom, empathy and humor, challenging us to wake up and heed the voice calling from within—a voice beckoning us to become who we were born to be. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP PURCHASE: https://amzn.to/2U0TkTf For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ https://www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Eitan Fishbane, associate professor of Jewish thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary (www.eitanfishbane.com/), presents his lecture "Is the Human Being Divine? Soul and Body in Jewish Mystical Thought" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Influential kabbalists argued that the soul is the essence of a person and that the soul is a direct emanation from God. So can we claim that there is a true distinction between Divinity and humanity? We will study sources from Kabbalah and Hasidism that develop this subject, seeking to understand how Jewish mystics defined the core of human nature. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2InacC5 For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Norm Cohen on Terumah “the first fundraising event and why we give” for a special choir Shabbat at Temple Solel on February 8, 2019
Professor Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, associate professor of religion and law at Northwestern University, presents his lecture "The Talmud: A Biography" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should hardly have broad appeal. Yet the Talmud has remained in print for centuries and is more popular today than ever. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer tells the remarkable story of this ancient Jewish book and explains why it has endured for almost two millennia. Providing a concise biography of this quintessential work of rabbinic Judaism, Wimpfheimer takes readers from the Talmud’s prehistory in biblical and second-temple Judaism to its present-day use as a source of religious ideology, a model of different modes of rationality, and a totem of cultural identity. He describes the book’s origins and structure, its centrality to Jewish law, its mixed reception history, and its golden renaissance in modernity. He explains why reading the Talmud can feel like being swept up in a river or lost in a maze, and why the Talmud has come to be venerated–but also excoriated and maligned—in the centuries since it first appeared. An incomparable introduction to a work of literature that has lived a full and varied life, this accessible book shows why the Talmud is at once a received source of traditional teachings, a touchstone of cultural authority, and a powerful symbol of Jewishness for both supporters and critics. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2B1ZQBr For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ https://www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Samuel Fleischacker, the LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois-Chicago, presents his lecture "Existentialist Messianism" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Maimonides says in his Commentary on the Mishnah and his Mishneh Torah that Moses wrote every word of the Torah at the dictation of God. But Maimonides also says that God can’t talk, and that anyone who thinks God can talk is an idolater. So what exactly does Maimonides mean by describing Moses as a scribe who wrote down God’s words? This talk will try to explain that, in the context of other things Maimonides says, and argue that, properly understood, Maimonides’ view of the composition of the Torah does not rule out what today is called “the documentary hypothesis”: the idea that a variety of people wrote the Torah rather than Moses. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2QDclZg For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Ilana Kaufman, Director of Jews of Color Field Building Initiative, presents her Valley Beit Midrash (www.valleybeitmidrash.org) lecture " A Community of ‘Others’: Jews, Peoplehood, and Justice" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Together we will explore the multi-layered complexities of social identities and what it means for Jewish communities to be inclusive, exclusive, and expansive. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: bit.ly/2PUntRZ For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Professor Adrienne Krone, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Jewish Life at Allegheny College (sites.allegheny.edu/philo/) presents her Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Sacred and Sustainable Space: Ancient Agriculture and Innovative Judaism" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: This lecture will offer insight into how Jewish community farms have become a site for North American Jews to enact their values, express their Jewish identities, and reconnect with agricultural aspects of Jewish tradition long marginalized through centuries of Jewish life in the Diaspora. Driven by concerns about environmental degradation, industrial agriculture, animal welfare, and food insecurity, Jews in North American have created alternative spaces and innovative Jewish practices. In these spaces, Jews rethink what it means to be Jewish and find new ways to enact Judaism that are meaningful for Jews and beneficial for the plants, animals, and other humans that live alongside them. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Dr. Mel Gottlieb, President of the Academy for Jewish Religion, California (https://ajrca.edu/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash (www.valleybeitmidrash.org) lecture "Making Enemies Into Friends" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: This lecture will be an articulation of the Torah’s mandates toward encountering our enemies and transforming them into friends, including the exception for the category of Amalek, and the reasons for this. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: https://bit.ly/2PUntRZ For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah https://www.facebook.com/ajrca www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, the Senior Rabbi at Temple Solel in Hollywood, FL (www.templesolel.com/), presents his lecture "How to Re-Claim The Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah!" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: The bar and bat mitzvah is the most popular American Jewish life-cycle ceremony. But, it has also been the victim of its own success. How can we spiritually “upgrade” bar and bat mitzvah? Based on Rabbi Salkin’s well-known series of bar and bat mitzvah books. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/TempleSolelHollywood/ www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, the Senior Rabbi at Temple Solel in Hollywood, FL (templesolel.com/), presents his lecture "The Gods Are Broken!" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Everyone knows the story of Abraham shattering his father’s idols. It might even be Judaism’s most famous (non-biblical) story. But it is not really a children’s story. It is the most important Jewish story, and it has deep implications for us today. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/TempleSolelHollywood/ www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, the Senior Rabbi at Temple Solel in Hollywood, FL (https://templesolel.com/), presents his lecture "Righteous Gentiles of the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Models for Sacred Relationships" before an audience at Temple Kol Ami(www.templekolami.org/) in Scottsdale, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Jewish history is more than “they hated us; they tried to kill us; we won; let’s eat!” We deserve to meet gentiles in Jewish history who were our friends. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ twitter.com/VBMTorah https://www.facebook.com/TempleSolelHollywood/ www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library
Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse, Assistant Professor at Stanford University (religiousstudies.stanford.edu/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash (www.valleybeitmidrash.org) lecture "Neo-Hasidism and the Theology of Halakhah: The Duties of Intimacy and the Law of the Heart" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Together we will seek a Neo-Hasidic theology of halakhah — an understanding of sacred deeds and the divine command that can redress the challenges of modernity and enliven the heart of the contemporary Jewish seeker. We will begin with a brief turn to the teachings of the key figures presented in the companion volume to this book, whose writings are the hearthstones of contemporary Neo-Hasidism. My goal, however, is not to describe their work but to add a new voice to the conversation. I will stake the claim that Neo-Hasidism must be a movement of praxis, one affirming that the life of the spirit is embodied and expressed through concrete deeds. A sense of obligation must be central to our conversation about halakhah, just as a mandate of responsibility is integral to our covenantal relationship with the Divine. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2u7Lnmq Event Co-Sponsored by Mt. Sinai Cemetery (www.mtsinaicemetery.com/) For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jas... Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 United States— CC BY 3.0 US
Professor Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, the Mae and Benjamin Swig Professor in Jewish Studies and the founding Director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco (http://bit.ly/2p5kPO4), presents his lecture "The Jewish Story? Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Jewish ‘Other’ Within" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Jews and non-Jews frequently speak about “the Jews” as if they are a single, cohesive, interconnected group. But whether in their previous incarnations as Hebrews, Israelites, or Judeans, Jews have never been uniform or homogenous. There has never been a Jewish people, only peoples; never one Judaism, only Judaisms. In the twenty-first century, how can Jews be more inclusive, not just of those identifying as Ashkenazi, heteronormative, and Israel- and American-centric but rather of the historically multidimensional and vastly diverse Jewish communities that have existed within this social group since their very inception? DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP Purchase Professor Hahn Tapper's book HERE: http://amzn.to/2FJGu7X For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Sam Intrator of Kavanah Life (http://www.kavanahlifesingles.com) presents his Valley Beit Midrash (www.valleybeitmidrash.org) lecture "The Radical and Modern Approach of Ishbitz Hasidic Thought" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: In this podcast, Rabbi Sam Intrator explores the major themes that show how the Ishbitzer Rebbe’s ideas, while rooted in traditional sources, are radical departures from traditional interpretations. This unique school of Hasidic study offers deep psychological insights and a very modern approach to understanding human nature. It reveals both very transcendent and accessible ideas in spirituality. We will also explore the apparent rebellion of the founder of this dynasty Rabbi Mordecei Yosef against his mentor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, to show how disagreements are often not a rejection of another approach but is, in fact, an expansion and development of that which is seemingly being rejected. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2Dfp5hU For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
“It is not for nothing,” Norman Podhoretz once wrote, “that a cruel wag has described…services in a Reform temple as ‘the Democratic Party at prayer.’” The truth to which this old quip points is not simply that most American Jews are liberal, but that too many Jews use the faith of their ancestors as window dressing for their left-wing politics. This ought to perturb Jews of all religious persuasions, conservatives and liberals alike. In January of 2018, Jeffrey Salkin, a Reform rabbi and the spiritual leader of Temple Solel in Hollywood, Florida, penned a piece in Commentary calling on his liberal Jewish colleagues to abandon what he called a “Judaism of slogans.” Far too often, Rabbi Salkin argues, progressive Jews make sloppy use of Jewish texts in order to justify the political positions they already hold. This kind of lazy sloganeering, he writes, fails to do justice to “a people with an unparalleled tradition of religious scholarship and spiritual breadth.” In this podcast, Rabbi Salkin sits down with Tikvah’s Jonathan Silver for a conversation about the uses and misuses of Judaism in politics. They unpack some of the most common slogans used by Jewish activists and show how the source texts are far too complex to fit on a bumper sticker. They also explore the place of social justice activism in liberal Judaism and ponder the tensions and future of the Reform Movement in America. Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble as well as “Baruch Habah,” performed by the choir of Congregation Shearith Israel.
Rabbi Dr. Sid Schwarz, Senior Fellow at Hazon (hazon.org/) o presents his Valley Beit Midrash (www.valleybeitmidrash.org) lecture "Our Universe of Obligation: How Wide?" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2sm8lWr For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Dr. Sid Schwarz, Senior Fellow at Hazon (hazon.org/) o presents his Valley Beit Midrash (www.valleybeitmidrash.org) lecture "Judaism, Justice, and Holiness" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Rabbi Sid’s groundbreaking book, Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World 2006, offers a seminal thesis about the purpose of Judaism. The book portrays a tension between the commitment of Jews to universal values and the Jewish communal tendency to emphasize a more parochial set of priorities. This talk explores the sublime paradox of Judaism which combines a requirement that Jews fully engage in the world to advance peace and justice with a mandate for Jews to continue to be a people apart. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Haim Ovadia, rabbi of Magen David Sephardic Congregation (http://www.magendavidsephardic.org/)in suburban Washington DC presents his lecture "Why Are There No Reform or Conservative Sephardic Movements" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: The different cultures and religious approaches of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews are products of over a thousand years of living under the rule of two opposing religions, Islam and Christianity. Though both religions, as well as Judaism, are often bundled together as the Monotheistic or Abrahamic religions, there are fundamental differences between them. For better or worse, the unique characteristics of each dominant religion shaped the lives, cultures, and theology of its Jews. The rift which started thousands of years ago, has deepened after the emancipation in Europe, as religious leaders in the Ashkenazi world retreated into a spiritual ghetto, while Sephardic kept a vibrant and innovative legal approach. The lecture will review some of the influences of Islam and Christianity on Judaism, will track the path of Halakhic innovation over the centuries, and will explain why the Sephardic world appears to be more homogeneous than the Ashkenazi world. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2BbaDqn To receive Rabbi Ovadia's digital newsletter, sign up HERE: http://bit.ly/2rkFiSk For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Ms. Estelle Frankel presents her lecture "The Wisdom of Not Knowing" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Jewish mystics teach that God, the Torah, and the human soul are each comprised of a known (nigleh) and a vastly greater unknown (nistar) and unknowable dimension. As we inquire into each of these domains, we begin to realize the impossibility of ever wrapping our minds around these infinite mysteries. Yet, it is through our inquiry into the unknown that we grow our souls. In this seminar, we will study Jewish spiritual teachings on the wisdom of “not knowing” and explore how the conscious practice of “unknowing” can serve as a vital force for growth, insight and creative inspiration in our lives. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2AqfnJB For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Watercolors" by John Deley and the 41 Players, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rabbi Salkin urges a return to sanity and sanctity for this age-old rite of passage. Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin has served as the senior rabbi of Temple Solel since August, 2015. Prior to that, he had served congregations in New Jersey, Georgia, and New York. Rabbi Salkin is blessed with a national and international reputation as one of America’s most quoted rabbis and thought leaders. His words have been cited in The New York Times, The New Republic, and USA Today. He has appeared on many television and radio programs, and has spoken in more than a hundred communities, including in Israel, Great Britain, Cuba, and Poland. His colleagues describe him as “intellectually fearless;” “an activist for Jewish ideas;” and “a public intellectual of the pulpit.” Rabbi Salkin’s books have been published by Jewish Lights Publishing and the Jewish Publication Society. His books have dealt with such subjects as the spirituality of career, masculinity, Israel, righteous gentiles, and Jewish history. Several of his books have won national awards. Rabbi Salkin has been named responsible for the spiritual revival of bar and bat mitzvah in America – largely through his first book, Putting God on the Guest List: How to Reclaim The Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah (Jewish Lights Publishing). His new book, The JPS Bnai Mitzvah Torah Commentary, was published in Spring, 2017.
Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, author of the best-selling b'nai mitzvah guide, Putting God on the Guest List, visits Rabbi Address on the Jewish Sacred Aging Podcast to discuss his newest book, The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary, and trends in Bar and Bat Mitzvah practices across the Jewish spectrum. About the Guest Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin joined Temple Solel of Hollywood, Fla. as Senior Rabbi on August 1, 2015. He has a unique reputation among his colleagues. They call him an “activist for Jewish ideas.” He is recognized as one of the most thoughtful Jewish teachers of his generation. He describes his own life mission as: “I help people of all ages find spiritual meaning in Judaism.” Rabbi Salkin is a noted author who has written nine critically acclaimed books, published by Jewish Lights Publishing and the Jewish Publication Society. Several of his books have won national awards. He first came to national attention with his book, Putting God on the Guest List: How To Reclaim the Spiritual Meaning of Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah. The editor of two Torah commentaries, he is currently working on The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Torah, a “kid-friendly” commentary on the Torah and haftarot, to be published by the Jewish Publication Society. He has also written on such topics as the spirituality of work, masculinity and Judaism, interfaith relations, Israel, and Jewish history. He has also written articles for scholarly journals and encyclopedias. Rabbi Salkin is one of America's most-quoted rabbis. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Readers Digest, and the Forward. His blog, “Martini Judaism; for those who want to be shaken and stirred” (jeffreysalkin.religionnews.com) won the Wilbur Award for Best Religion Blog of the year. He has spoken in more than one hundred North American communities — in synagogues, community centers, churches, and seminaries. He has served on the faculty of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Molloy College, Columbus State University, and the Academy for Jewish Religion. Rabbi Salkin has forged deep relations within the inter-religious world. He was one of the first rabbis to earn the Doctor of Ministry degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He pioneered outreach to the Sikh community, and has created joint Jewish-Christian-Muslim study programs. Rabbi Salkin has been an “entrepreneur for Judaism” – serving congregations; creating an adult study institute in Atlanta; producing religious television shows, and serving as the New Jersey director of the Anti-Defamation League. Rabbi Salkin believes that his rabbinic mission can be summed up as follows: the translate Jewish texts and ideas into a modern idiom; To transmit these ideas and teachings, and to transform people's lives, and the life of the entire Jewish community.
Mr. Bassem Eid, a Palestinian Human Rights activist, presents his lecture "Palestinians’ Internal Politics and Conflicts" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Good Starts," a free-use public domain song by Jingle Punks, courtesy of YouTube's Audio Library
Rabbi Evan Moffic - Teaching the Jewishness of Jesus & Bridging Faith Rabbi Evan Moffic is the lead rabbi for Temple Solel in Highland Park, IL. He is the author of three books, The Jewishness of Jesus, What Every Christian Needs to Know About Jesus, and The Happiness Prayer. Rabbi Moffic originally wanted to pursue a career in law but found he was attracted to Hebrew scripture and Jewish texts after he took a religious studies class during his undergraduate studies. His pathway in teaching eventually led him to discover there is a real hunger for Christians to understand more about the Jewish roots of Christianity and the Jewishness of Jesus. He is a frequent speaker around the world, offering hope and working to bridge faith, helping people to understand the ways we are connected and called to serve God. Rabbi Moffic is a sensitive, bright, and powerful teacher who recognizes mankind is designed to love and God's desire is for our peaceful love and care for one another and not hatred and violence. His reverence for Torah, Jewish tradition, and message is shared with eloquence in this interview.
Rabbi Dr. Dov Weiss of the University of Illinois presents his lecture "Sins of the Parents: Ethics and Theology in Rabbinic Literature" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2mZaIGr DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Good Starts," a free-use public domain song by Jingle Punks, courtesy of YouTube's Audio Library
Professor Joel Gereboff of Arizona State University and Hebrew Union College presents his lecture "The Emotional Impact of Jewish Ritual Objects" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2iCG0Wg DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Good Starts," a free-use public domain song by Jingle Punks, courtesy of YouTube's Audio Library
Rabbi Alex Israel of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies (www.pardes.org.il/)presents his lecture "Government, Corruption, and Self-Delusion" before a roundtable audience before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2hmThOz For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMPhx www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Good Starts," a free-use public domain song by Jingle Punks, courtesy of YouTube's Audio Library.
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (http://www.rac.org/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Prophecy, Power and the Pursuit of Justice: How People of Faith Can Transform the World" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Good Starts," a free-use public domain song by Jingle Punks, courtesy of YouTube's Audio Library.
Rabbi David Jaffe presents his lecture "Spirituality and Social Change: Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2fNhaxP For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMPhx www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Good Starts," a free-use public domain song by Jingle Punks, courtesy of YouTube's Audio Library.
Professor Tova Hartman presents her lecture "Do We Have to Mean What We Pray?" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/2f9iACG For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "Good Starts," a free-use public domain song by Jingle Punks, courtesy of YouTube's Audio Library.
Rabbi Dr. Simcha Raphael, Founding Director of the Da'at Institute (http://www.daatinstitute.net/) presents his lecture "Exploring Jewish Views on the Afterlife" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/1SmW5cS For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/
Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff, Director of Community Learning at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School (http://www.yctorah.org) presents his lecture "Aaron the Cohen: Peacemaking and Leadership in the Jewish Community" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: http://bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/1TAh37L For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/
Rabbi Or Rose, Director, Center for Global Judaism at Hebrew College (http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/global-judaism)presents his lecture "Radical Compassion: The Mystical Teaching of Rabbi Levi Yizhak of Berditchev" before a roundtable audience at Temple Solel (http://www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. DONATE: http://bit.ly/1NmpbsP LEARNING MATERIALS: http://bit.ly/1SLW0Rj For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ https://www.facebook.com/templesolelaz/ twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/
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