Rabbi Miriam's Elul thoughts
Today is the first day that we blow the shofar in the run-up to Rosh Hashana.
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Kehillat Nashira
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Parsha Ekev - video sermon
All the feels in a field... So much of our lives are dedicated to finding comfort and ease, but the Torah has great wisdom in this week's...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jul 26
- 1 min
Parsha Pinchas - video sermon
The gap between what is and what should be... that seems to be the stuff of the world right now. But so it ever was as we see in this...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jul 19
- 1 min
Parsha Balak - video sermon
In couples therapy, a method of bridging divides is to get each individual to articulate the perspective of the other, even using the...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jul 15
- 4 min
Dvar Torah – Chukat – Moshe striking the rock
Written by Rachel Harris Delivered Shabbat 13th July 2024 Shabbat Shalom The story I read today is a famous one – the Israelites in the...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Chukat - video sermon
Some Torah I learnt from a beloved teacher, Maureen Kendler z"l. The phrase "striking up a conversation" is resonant in this parasha, as...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jul 4
- 1 min
Korach - video sermon
When a Rabbi and Rabbinical student go on holiday they speak about... exactly what you'd expect them to speak about! So great to share...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jun 27
- 1 min
Shlach - 60 second video sermon
What should have been a 2-week walk from Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land (I calculated it on Google Maps) turns out to be a 40-year...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Behaalotecha - 60 second video sermon
The desert grumbling intensifies in this week's Parasha, Behaalotecha. It has always astonished me that our memory of a difficult past...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Jun 7
- 1 min
Bemidbar - 60 second video sermon
"I've been through the desert on a horse with no name... in the desert, you can't remember your name" Singer, Dewey Bunell, wrote these...
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Kehillat Nashira
- May 31
- 1 min
"Why do we record the opinion of the single person among the many when halacha must be in accordance with the majority?" - 60 second video sermon
Sharing some Torah from my final exam day! Why does our halakhic tradition preserve the individual, dissenting, and rejected opinions? So...
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Kehillat Nashira
- May 24
- 1 min
Behar - 60 second video sermon
"Proclaim liberty in the land" says this week's parasha, Behar. We need liberty and release more than ever in this hurting world. I'm...
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Kehillat Nashira
- May 17
- 1 min
Emor - 60 second video sermon
One of my favourite mantras when a Torah parasha is challenging is: "the Torah is the first word, not the last word." This week's...
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Kehillat Nashira
- May 10
- 1 min
Kedoshim - video sermon
I love the Gemara's idea that "placing a stumbling block before the blind" could look like inciting anger in another - riling them up so...
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Kehillat Nashira
- May 3
- 1 min
Acharei - video sermon
I feel very fortunate to live in a country where people can speak freely and love having the opportunity to contribute to the diversity...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Apr 12
- 5 min
Tazria - How to become an ex-leper
The legendary comedy troupe Monty Python (who I am proud to call fellow Brits), in their take on Second Temple life in The Life of Brian,...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Apr 11
- 1 min
Tazria - video sermon
There's no sin in childbirth, so why does the Torah say a woman brings a sin offering after birth? I think there's something else going...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Apr 5
- 1 min
Shmini - video sermon
There are many theories why Nadav and Avihu bring a "foreign fire that was not commanded" which led to their deaths - they were drunk,...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Mar 28
- 1 min
Tzav - 60 second video sermon
Yesterday I sat my final rabbinical exam in the laws of Jewish mourning, Aveilut. So it felt apt to find something in this week's...
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Kehillat Nashira
- Mar 21
- 1 min
Video Purim sermon
Why does the megilla start with Vashti? First of all, Vashti gets a bad rap, mainly thanks to a set of Babylonian midrash that many of us...
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