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Kehillat Nashira
Dec 12, 20241 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
Nov 29, 20241 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 22, 20241 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 15, 20241 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
Sep 20, 20241 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 13, 20241 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
Aug 22, 20242 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 26, 20241 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 19, 20241 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 11, 20241 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 4, 20241 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 27, 20241 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 21, 20241 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 7, 20241 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 31, 20241 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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Kehillat Nashira
May 24, 20241 min read
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, 20241 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 10, 20241 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 3, 20241 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 11, 20241 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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