Rabbi's Drasha
Rosh HaShana Day 2- Their Last Words
Friends, The Jewish People have gone insane. Literally insane. I hate to say it today, on this holiest day of the year, to indict our people, but we are absolutely, certifiably, insane. Let me explain. If we use the famous definition that Insanity is doing the...
Rosh HaShana Day 1- A Bris Chadasha- A New Covenant for 5785
October 7th… that terrible tragic day. The day that has forever changed the arc of Jewish history. it has completely dominated our thoughts, our emotions and our conversations…My friends, I have been grappling with this moment for the last few months. What to...
Finding Tzion, Finding Ourselves: Shoftim 5784
Two Wednesdays ago on August 21, somehow an 8-year-old boy was lost. He was on vacation with his family standing right ousted the Lava River caves near Flagstaff Arizona. And somehow, he disappeared. His parents called out his name. But he was nowhere to be found. And...
A Teshuva Paradigm Shift: Lessons from a Blind Photographer- Ki Teze 5784
When we invaded Iraq, one of the primary goals was to get Saddam Hussein and his two sons. One day we heard the news that they caught and killed his two sons. What had happened was there was an American soldier who was taking a stroll, and he noticed a compound in the...
Surgeon General’s Warning: Parenting Can be Hazardous To Your Health:5784
GOVERNMENT WARNING: (1) According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects. (2) Consumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause...
Burned with Fire & Built with Fire: Nachamu 5784
One of the most inspiring chats that I’m on is the Israel Good News Chat which shares only good news out of Israel during the war. As I was sitting on Tisha B’Av, contemplating the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, I recalled a post that I would like to share from...
A Kinna for October 7th/ Devarim/Chazon 5784
Mi YIten Roshi Mayim…Would that my head were water and my eyes a fountain of flowing tears. That I would spend all my days and nights weeping for the slaughtered children and infants and elder of our congregation…for the young girls, a sweet children wrapped in their...
When They Breached Our Walls: Mattos-Maase 5784
This meme really struck home for me when I saw as we were observing the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz, last week. The Meme begins by pointing out that 17 is a combination of 10 and 7- Oct 7th. And then it drives home the central reason why we fast on the 17th of...
Holy & Unholy Zeal: Lessons from Benjamin Netanyahu and Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm: Pinchas 5784
In this week’s parsha the Torah’s paradigmatic story of religious zealotry is extolled. Pinchas, upon witnessing a horribly immoral act, an affront to Moshe and a desecration of G-d’s name kills the perpetrators. This weeks parsha opens with G-d rewarding Pinchas for...
“Politics Should Be Boring”- Bernie Sanders Lesson From the Attempted Trump Assassination: Balak 5784
"Politics should be kind of boring, you know?" Our healthcare system is dysfunctional. How do we fix it? Well, it's kind of a boring discussion, but we need a health care system that guarantees health care to all people.” This was Bernie Sanders remarks on Meet The...