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Kehillat Nashira
May 171 min read
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 101 min read
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 31 min read
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 125 min read
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 111 min read
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 51 min read
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 281 min read
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 211 min read
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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Kehillat Nashira
Mar 151 min read
Pekudei - 60 second video sermon
We're often told that the Mishkan (portable desert temple) was built exactly to God's instructions, with the repeating words "kaasher...
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Kehillat Nashira
Mar 81 min read
Vayakhel - 60 second sermon
Mirror mirror on the wall... in our parasha, Vayakhel, Moshe attempts to refuse the gift of mirrors to the Mishkan on the basis that...
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Kehillat Nashira
Mar 11 min read
Parasha Ki Tisa - 60 second video sermon
Can a relationship ever heal from betrayal and infidelity? Well, you should absolutely read "The State of Affairs" by the phenomenal...
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Kehillat Nashira
Feb 231 min read
Parsha Tetzaveh - 60 second video sermon
It's a little hard to relate to these parshiot which describe the Mishkan creation in great detail. But the Yom Kippur song Mareh Cohen...
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Kehillat Nashira
Feb 151 min read
Parsha Teruma - 60 second video sermon
Happy rainbow unicorns, it turns out, are not an invention of the last five years, or even a medieval invention as Wikipedia would have...
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Kehillat Nashira
Feb 91 min read
Mishpatim - 60 second video sermon
Slavery is wrong. Full stop. And yet its existence in the Torah - moderated but understood as a fact of life - is problematic. There are...
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Kehillat Nashira
Feb 11 min read
Yitro - 60 second video sermon
Instagram's caption bot had fun with all my Hebrew this week - very grateful for the edit function! What does a beautiful quail egg have...
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Kehillat Nashira
Jan 261 min read
Beshallach and Shirah - 60 second video sermon
Ever experienced things hitting rock bottom, and then when you think they can't get any worse, a breakthrough happens and the situation...
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Kehillat Nashira
Jan 191 min read
Bo - 60 second video sermon
Much can be said about Pharaoh's heart hardening and being heartened and the implications for free will... but today, I'm interested in...
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Kehillat Nashira
Jan 111 min read
Vaera - 60 second video sermon
Nearer to 90 seconds this week - but here's Miriam's thoughts on this week's parasha Vaera. Until the final plague, most of the 10...
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Kehillat Nashira
Jan 51 min read
Shemot - 60 second video sermon
It's a new year of 90 second sermons and a new sefer - the book of Shemot. Fab to be back with the wonderful Rabbi Joe to share a thought...
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Kehillat Nashira
Dec 11, 20231 min read
Chanukah + Parshat Vayeishev
This week Miriam’s teacher, Reb Tanya Farber, shared the Hasidic idea of the Chanukah dreidel with its stem above and the Purim gregor...
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