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Parashah of the week: Vayikra
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “When a person commits a...
Kehillat Nashira
Apr 42 min read
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Make Me a Sanctuary For Me to Dwell In
Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming visiting scholar Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash to Kehillat Nashira. In her sermon on...
Kehillat Nashira
Mar 67 min read
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The Paranoid, the Schemer and the Heroine
written by Rabbi Miriam Lorie, published in YCT's Purim reader as follows: The Paranoid, the Schemer and the Heroine The classic fairy...
Kehillat Nashira
Mar 69 min read
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Parashah of the week: Terumah
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “And the priest Jehoiada...
Kehillat Nashira
Feb 282 min read
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Parsha Bo - video sermon
This week, Rabbi Miriam is joined by her friend, chevruta and therapist, Abi Symons. Watch along here: Rabbi Miriam explains further: "Bo...
Kehillat Nashira
Jan 302 min read
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Parashah of the week: Va'era
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parasha column. “Yet Pharaoh hardened his...
Kehillat Nashira
Jan 242 min read
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Parsha Va'era - video sermon
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...
Kehillat Nashira
Jan 231 min read
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Parasha Vayigash - video sermon
"It was sobering to meet the son of a hostage this Chanukah, and the niece of another. Their lives are suspended with worry and fear, and...
Kehillat Nashira
Jan 31 min read
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Parashah of the week: Vayeshev
This year, Rabbi Miriam is one of 5 rabbis and Jewish educators writing the Jewish Chronicle’s parashah column. Parashah of the Week:...
Kehillat Nashira
Dec 19, 20242 min read
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Parsha Vayishlach - video sermon
A 90 second sermon for Vayishlach from Rabbi Miriam Lorie! In a tight spot as he approaches the potentially dangerous Esav, our ancestor...
Kehillat Nashira
Dec 12, 20241 min read
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Parsha Vayetze - video sermon
This week Rabbi Miriam's video sermon is live from Frankfurt, Germany. "Hello from Frankfurt! Being in the home city of my great...
Kehillat Nashira
Dec 6, 20241 min read
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Parsha Toldot - video sermon
The Torah is a book for grown ups. Just dig into the first few verses of our parasha, Toldot, and we find deep themes around infertility...
Kehillat Nashira
Nov 29, 20241 min read
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Parsha Chayei Sarah - video sermon
"Bakol mikol kol" - "in everything, from everything, everything" It's more than just a catchy line in benching (grace after meals). As...
Kehillat Nashira
Nov 22, 20241 min read
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Parsha Lech Lecha - video sermon
90 second musings on the week and the parasha on a grey old English afternoon with Hannah Gaventa. Before Avraham was "Avraham Avinu" he...
Kehillat Nashira
Nov 15, 20241 min read
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Succot - video sermon
Sukkot, particularly in these cold climes, has always been about feeling the fragility of the bricks and mortar we usually shelter in....
Kehillat Nashira
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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Parsha Ki Tavo - video sermon
Ki Tavo is the storytelling parasha. In it, we read that a farmer, flushed with pride at their new crops, is to bring the bikkurim, the...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Parsha Ki Teitzei - 60 second video sermon
The Rambam, in his Laws of Repentance, says that Yom Kippur attones for sins between us and God, but that things that go wrong between...
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 13, 20241 min read
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Rabbi Miriam's Elul thoughts
Today is the first day that we blow the shofar in the run-up to Rosh Hashana.
Kehillat Nashira
Sep 5, 20242 min read
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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...
Kehillat Nashira
Aug 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Kehillat Nashira
Jul 26, 20241 min read
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