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Kehillat Nashira
Dec 192 min read
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:...
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Kehillat Nashira
Dec 121 min read
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...
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Kehillat Nashira
Dec 61 min read
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...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 291 min read
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...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 221 min read
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...
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Kehillat Nashira
Nov 151 min read
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...
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Kehillat Nashira
Oct 161 min read
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....
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Kehillat Nashira
Sep 201 min read
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...
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Kehillat Nashira
Sep 131 min read
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...
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Kehillat Nashira
Sep 52 min read
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 222 min read
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 261 min read
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 191 min read
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 154 min read
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 111 min read
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 41 min read
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 271 min read
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 211 min read
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 71 min read
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 311 min read
"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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