This week, Rabbi Miriam is joined by her teacher Rabbi Zvi Hirshfield at Limmud. He share a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Vayechi. Rabbi Miriam reflects: "Limmud  festival was phenomenal in so many ways and one was being around so many teachers. So it was an honour to learn from Rabbi Zvi Hirshfield again and for him to give this week's Insta sermon. Thank you @pardesinstitute  for Rabbi Zvi and for all the inspiration you've given so many of us."

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Vayishlach . She reflects: "A 90 second sermon on something that's difficult to talk about. Particularly in a family setting like shul. But because abuse thrives in silence, it's important to share this story and speak out against it happening in our communities and our world. If the Torah can, so can we. " If you'd like to read the full story, please click the link below: https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.34?l

Rabbi Miriam's Vayetze sermon - delivered Shabbat 29th November 2025 What does it look like to have a safe home? The home is usually the place where we expect to “switch off” our threat responses. A place where you are physically protected, but also one with psychological safety. If home doesn’t feel safe, the body can stay in a chronic stress state and never truly relaxes.  On the other hand, a home with good physical and psychological safety has long-term positive effects o

Rabbi Miriam's Toldot sermon - delivered Kabbalat Shabbat 21st November 2025 Our parasha is Toldot, which contains the story of Yaakov and Eisav’s brotherly wranglings. It all starts with the twins wrestling in utero, which leads their mother to ask the existential question: “לָמָּה זֶּה אָנֹכִי” “if so, why do I exist?” In a time before obstetricians, she speaks to God via an oracle or teacher and is given a prophecy that the older twin will end up serving the younger - th

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Toledot. She reflects: "It's one of the biggest questions in the Torah for me, and one with a clear answer despite religious commentaries (particularly the newer ones) tying themselves in knots to justify our Avot and Imahot's flawed human behaviour. Glad to have the Ramban and Radak onside for this one. "[Yaakov] was punished for initiating such a sale because he had upset the norms of civilised society by d

Rabbi Miriam's sermon - delivered Kabbalat Shabbat 7th November 2025 I’m not sure about you, but I’m still waiting for the nice, quiet time beyond the two years of feeling tense. Don’t get me wrong, the news cycle seems better than the awfulness of even a few weeks ago. But that’s not a particularly high bar.  I expect that some people here, along with some of my American colleagues, are feeling anxious about Mamdani’s appointment. Others among my colleagues voted for him, s

As we begin the Torah anew with Bereishit, Rabbi Miriam invites us to reflect on the timeless lessons of our first parasha. She says: ”This first parasha of the Torah contains so many heartbreaking truths about humanity - our innate competitiveness, our need to possess and have power over others, our capacity for violence... but I believe also our incredible capacity for self-reflection and progress.”

Rabbi Miriam Lorie is joined by her friend Reveredn Catriona Laing and together they share their thoughts on Parshat Ki Teitzei in a 90-second video reflection.

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Vaetchanan. She reflects: "When life doesn't go the way we'd always...

This week, Rabbi Miriam Lorie brings together Parshat Pinchas  and Pride and Prejudice  in a 90-second video reflection. She shares: "I...

This week’s video sermon invites us into a conversation between Rabbi Miriam and her friend and Yeshivat Maharat scholar, Sarah-Beth...

This week, Rabbi Miriam is in New York celebrating the ordination of a new cohort of female rabbis at Maharat. While there, she reunited...

90 second sermons are back! This week, Rabbi Miriam brings us a dose of 'spiritual sunshine' from her rainy back garden, raincoat and...

This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “When a person commits a...

Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming visiting scholar Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash to Kehillat Nashira. In her sermon on...

written by Rabbi Miriam Lorie, published in YCT's Purim reader as follows: The Paranoid, the Schemer and the Heroine The classic fairy...

This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “And the priest Jehoiada...

This week, Rabbi Miriam is joined by her friend, chevruta and therapist, Abi Symons. Watch along here: Rabbi Miriam explains further: "Bo...

This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “Yet Pharaoh hardened his...

This week’s parsha, Va’era, invites us to reflect on the challenge of speaking up when it feels impossible. Rabbi Miriam Lorie, in her...