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YOM KIPPUR – COPING WITH OCTOBER 7TH

Rabbi Michael Beals

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Rabbi Michael Beals October 12, 2024
Temple Beth El Newark, DE
YOM KIPPUR – COPING WITH OCTOBER 7TH
Gut yontev.
I have been delivering High Holy Day sermons for 28 years. I normally love writing them. But this year, this particular sermon has given me a lot of trouble. I put it off until last, and not just because this is the last of my five high holy day sermons of 5785. There’s more to it. It’s the difference...Read more...

KOL NIDREI: HOW TO GO ABOUT BEING A GOOD PERSON

Rabbi Michael Beals

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Rabbi Michael Beals October 11, 2024
Temple Beth El Newark, DE
KOL NIDREI: HOW TO GO ABOUT BEING A GOOD PERSON
Gut Yontev.
In a traditional synagogue service, the confession, or viddui, prayers are repeated TEN times, twice during each of the five services of Yom Kippur, beginning tonight with Kol Nidrei. And within those ten confessional texts, we have the short confession, beginning with the word Ashamnu, meaning “we...Read more...

Rosh Hashana 5785 Day Two  - Did Abraham Fail the Test

Rabbi Michael S. Beals

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Rabbi Michael S. Beals October 3, 2024
Temple Beth El Newark, DE
Rosh Hashana 5785 Day Two
Did Abraham Fail the Test
Shanah Tovah.
How many of you recognize these lyrics?:
My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it And as he grew, he'd say "I'm gonna be like you,...Read more...

Rosh Hashana Day 1 5785 - DISCOVERING THE BACK STORY

Rabbi Michael Beals

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Rabbi Michael Beals October 2, 2024
Temple Beth El Newark, DE
Rosh Hashana Day 1 5755
DISCOVERING THE BACK STORY
Gut yontev.
Everyone has a back story. Understanding that back story helps us put their comments, behaviors … even their political affiliation into context. It may not help us agree with their choices, but if we understand someone’s back story we might react, or not react, differently. And at its...Read more...

Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon 5785 - Judaism is About Love

Rabbi Michael Beals

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Rabbi Michael Beals October 1, 2024
Temple Beth El Newark, DE
Erev Rosh Hashana Sermon 5785
Judaism is About Love
Today I am a horse. Dear God, did you have to make my poor old horse lose his shoe just before the Sabbath? That wasn't nice. It's enough you pick on me, Tevye, bless me with six daughters, a life of poverty. What have you got against my horse? Sometimes I think when things are too quiet up there, You say to...Read more...

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