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Rosh Hashana 5786 - Sermons
Rabbi Miriam's Rosh Hashana sermon - delivered Tuesday 23rd September 2025 Losing the 'we' In Morocco, Gibraltar, Turkey, Israel,...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 2510 min read
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A Soundtrack for Ellul and Tishrei
Whether you’ll be busy in the kitchen preparing festive meals, or on the road traveling to loved ones, music has a way of setting the...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 191 min read
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An accounting of the soul
This week, Rabbi Miriam Lorie joined BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought. Listen here This week, I’m going to open a vault that has been...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 182 min read
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Help Us Build A Home
Kehillat Nashira has been on an incredible journey over the last decade. Starting in living rooms and borrowed spaces, the community has...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 101 min read
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See God in everything
This morning, Rabbi Miriam Lorie joined BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought. Listen here BBC Pause For Thought One of my best, weirdly...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 102 min read
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Parsha Ki Teitzei
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.
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 51 min read
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The power to change reality
This morning, Rabbi Miriam Lorie joined BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought. Listen here . Last week I conducted my first wedding as a...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 32 min read
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Parsha Vaetchanan
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...
Kehillat Nashira
Aug 81 min read
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A Visit from Soferet Avielah Barclay: Kehillat Nashira's Torah
This week, we were honoured to welcome Soferet Avielah Barclay, who visited to inspect our newly arrived Sefer Torah. With quiet care,...
Kehillat Nashira
Jul 311 min read
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Parsha Pinchas
This week, Rabbi Miriam Lorie brings together Parshat Pinchas  and Pride and Prejudice  in a 90-second video reflection. She shares: "I...
Kehillat Nashira
Jul 181 min read
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Parashah of the week: Pinchas
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “The daughters of...
Kehillat Nashira
Jul 172 min read
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Parsha Chukat
This week’s video sermon invites us into a conversation between Rabbi Miriam and her friend and Yeshivat Maharat scholar, Sarah-Beth...
Kehillat Nashira
Jul 41 min read
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Parsha Shelach Lecha
This week, Rabbi Miriam is in New York celebrating the ordination of a new cohort of female rabbis at Maharat. While there, she reunited...
Kehillat Nashira
Jun 191 min read
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OPINION: Orthodox women being ordained as rabbinic leaders is no niche movement
In this week's Jewish News, Rabbi Miriam  reflects on progress towards inclusion in Orthodox spaces but finds there's still some way to...
Kehillat Nashira
Jun 183 min read
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A message of prayer
To the very dear Kehillat Nashira community, Once again, we're watching from afar as worrying news unfolds with Israel's strikes on Iran...
Kehillat Nashira
Jun 131 min read
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Parashah of the week: Beha’alotecha
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “Miriam spoke, and Aaron,...
Kehillat Nashira
Jun 132 min read
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Parsha Nasso - video sermon
90 second sermons are back! This week, Rabbi Miriam brings us a dose of 'spiritual sunshine' from her rainy back garden, raincoat and...
Kehillat Nashira
Jun 61 min read
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Omer - Week 6
This week marks the penultimate step in our seven-week journey through the Omer and its brachot. Rabbi Miriam introduces this week with:...
Kehillat Nashira
May 231 min read
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Omer - Week 5
This week marks the fifth step in our seven-week journey through the Omer and its brachot. "Reflections from 5/7 of the sheva brachot for...
Kehillat Nashira
May 151 min read
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Jewish Exam Wisdom
This morning, Rabbi Miriam Lorie joined BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought. Listen here . My heart has been bursting with maternal...
Kehillat Nashira
May 142 min read
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