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Vayechi 5784 - Healing Our Generational Trauma
The following is a sermon I delivered at Valley Temple on Friday evening, December 29th, 2023. In my work with wedding couples, I’ve...
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Dec 31, 20234 min read


A War On Two Fronts
There is a war raging in the Middle East. But there is also one being fought on social media. And they both scare me in equal measure. We...
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Oct 10, 20234 min read


Vayechi - Maybe No Happy Ending After All...
Jacob is the last of our major patriarchs in Judaism, and his death closes the book of Genesis. Throughout his story, we see a...
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Jan 6, 20233 min read


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Sep 29, 20220 min read


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Jan 18, 20220 min read


Vayishlach - What to Do With the Silence...
We have been reading the Torah for over two thousand years. The beauty of such a long relationship with a text is that we have poured...
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Nov 18, 20217 min read


Toldot: Family Systems at Work
One of the most damaging notions when thinking about our Torah is to assume the perfection of the characters described. It is not an...
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Nov 3, 20216 min read
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