Confronting Tough Texts | A Rosh Hashanah Conversation
09/13/2021 12:59:38 PM
Confronting Tough Texts: A conversation with Rabbi Marc Soloway and High Holiday intern, Hindy.
Read more...
Emerging from the Cave | Words of Torah: Rosh Hashanah 2021/5782
09/13/2021 12:56:11 PM
Words of Torah from Rabbi Marc Soloway from Rosh Hashanah Day 1 Services on September 7, 2021.
The Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai spoke critically of the Roman government and was reported to the authorities and Rabbi Shimon and his son, Rabbi Elazar, were sentenced to death. They hid in a cave for twelve years, studying Torah day and night, nourished by a carob tree and spring of water which had...Read more...
The Torah of the Wilderness | Words of Torah
05/16/2021 09:21:08 PM
The Torah of the Wilderness - reflections on Parshat Bamidbar. Words of Torah from Shabbat morning services on May 15, 2021.
Read more...The Ecstacy & Tragedy of Sacred Time | Words of Torah
05/03/2021 10:19:22 AM
The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Sacred Time - Reflections on Parshat Emor from Shabbat morning services on May 1, 2021.
Read more...Loving the Neighbor, Loving the Stranger | Words of Torah
04/26/2021 01:25:38 PM
Loving the neighbor, Loving the stranger. Reflections on Parshat Kedoshim. Words of Torah from Shabbat morning services on April 24, 2021.
Read more...
Rituals for Re-Entering Community | Words of Torah
04/19/2021 09:54:45 AM
Rituals for Reentering Community - Reflections on Parshat Tazria/Metzora Words of Torah from Rabbi Marc Soloway from Shabbat morning services on April 17, 2021.
Read more...Never Again or Yet Again | Words of Torah
04/12/2021 09:35:25 AM
Never Again or Yet Again - Shabbat Reflections following Yom HaShoah for Parshat Shmini and the plight of the Uyghars in China. Words of Torah from Shabbat morning services on April 10, 2021.
Read more...Got Messiah? | Reflections on the 8th Day of Pesach
04/05/2021 04:54:47 PM
There is no Messiah - it's YOU! Reflections from Rabbi Marc Soloway on the 8th Day of Pesach.
Read more...The Power of Singing Together | Words of Torah
04/05/2021 04:51:11 PM
The Power of Singing Together: Reflections on a Shabbat of Song of Songs, Song of the Sea and Songs of Hallel!
Read more...A Pesach Conversation & The Blessing of the Dew
04/02/2021 04:49:02 PM
A discussion between Rabbi Marc and Rabbi Dov Gartenberg of Congregation of B'nai Israel in Albuquerque, NM on celebrating Passover in 5781, in the middle of a pandemic and after the horrific shooting in Boulder. This concludes with the Blessing of the Dew
Read more...Singing From the Darkness: A Vision of Redemption | Words of Torah
04/01/2021 11:12:16 AM
Reflections on Shabbat HaGadol in the aftermath of the Boulder shooting. Words of Torah from Shabbat morning services on March 27.
Read more...Sacred Offerings of the Heart | Words of Torah
03/21/2021 09:38:25 PM
Moving Closer | Sacred Offerings of the Heart. Reflections as we begin the Book of Leviticus Words of Torah from Shabbat morning services on March 20 as we start spring 2021 as well as the Book of Leviticus.
Read more...
The Fire of Creativity: Re-Imagining Our World After COVID | Words of Torah
03/15/2021 02:05:11 PM
Special guest, Rabbi Charna Rosenholtz, provided our Words of Torah on Shabbat morning services on March 13, 2021.
Read more...Welcoming Strangers, Smashing Idols | Words of Torah
03/11/2021 12:03:54 PM
Reflections on Refugee Shabbat, in collaboration with HIAS (hias.org), Congregation Bonai Shalom hosted a Refugee Shabbat on March 6.
Read more...
For Honor and Beauty: The Clothes We Wear | Words of Torah
03/02/2021 05:16:36 PM
Reflections on Parshat T'zaveh and the Priestly garments from Shabbat morning services on February 27, 2020.
Read more...
To Remember Amalek, We Cannot Forget Timna | Words of Torah
02/22/2021 11:43:24 AM
To remember Amalek, we can't forget Timna...
Words of Torah from our Executive Director, Stacey Aviva Flint on Shabbat morning services on February 20, 2020.
Read more...
Is It A Mitzvah To Be Happy? | Words of Torah
02/15/2021 11:40:09 AM
Reflections on the month of Adar and Parshat Mishpatim. Is it a Mitzvah to be happy?
Words of Torah from Rabbi Marc on Shabbat morning services on February 13, 2020.
Read more...
The Perfection...And Imperfection of the 10 Commandments | Words of Torah
02/08/2021 11:37:11 AM
Words of Torah from Rabbi Rosalie Osian on the perfect imperfection or our 10 Commandments, from Shabbat morning Services on February 6.
Read more...
The Long, Short Journey | Words of Torah
02/01/2021 01:57:11 PM
Just keep on walking...
Words of Torah from Rabbi Marc from Shabbat morning services on Saturday, January 30.
Read more...MLK Shabbat
01/18/2021 03:49:36 PM
As we prepare for MLK weekend, 2021, we reflect on the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. This week, our Executive Director, Stacey Aviva Flint, joined Rabbi Marc for both our D'var Torah as well as an alternative Haftarah.
Moral Grandeur & Spiritual Audacity
View the prayer from Rabbi Abrama Joshua Heschel HERE.
Alternative Haftarah
"The prophetic...Read more...
A Story of Being Forgotten & Remembered | Words of Torah
01/11/2021 04:27:38 PM
Guest speaker, Rabbi Rosalie Osian, speaks of a story of birth and transformation, of being forgotten and remembered, a story of 6 women and 1 man, a story about slavery.
Rosalie's Drash is from Shabbat morning services on Saturday, January 9, 2021.
Read more...L'chayim v'lo l'mavet - To Life and not for Death
01/04/2021 08:53:37 AM
Reflections on the ethics of birth, life and death.
The L'chaim link,
2020 Death Penalty Report link
Read more...
Words of Torah | Divine Providence Paradoxes
12/28/2020 03:11:28 PM
Divine Providence Paradoxes and thoughts on the last Shabbat of 2020 from Rabbi Marc on Shabbat morning services on December 26, 2020.
Read more...