Thoughts on Yom HaAtzmaut – Israel’s Independence Day
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, we observed Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. As always, it was preceded, on Monday, with...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
May 38 min read
Thoughts on Yom HaShoah
How can one best memorialize those who died during the Shoah during the Second World War? As in most areas of Jewish life, so too here...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
May 37 min read
Thoughts on Chol HaMoed
Moadim l’simcha! I wish you the joy of this holiday season. This week, as you know, we are celebrating the festival of Pesach, of...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Apr 199 min read
Thoughts on V’hi She-Amdah Lavoteinu
Certainly, one of the most popular and frequently published works in Jewish tradition is the Passover Haggadah, the booklet we use for...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Apr 126 min read
Thoughts on a Recurring Divine Attribute
Thoughts on a Recurring Divine Attribute I wrote last week about one of the traditional Passover songs that appears at the end of the...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Apr 58 min read
Thoughts on Echad Mi Yodea – Who Knows One?
As Passover approaches in the next couple of weeks, I wanted to take another look at the Haggadah and some of the songs and prayers I...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Apr 18 min read
Thoughts on Easter and Passover
Thoughts on Easter and Passover This Sunday, many Christians will be celebrating Easter, though the Orthodox Church will not do so until...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Mar 227 min read
Thoughts on Purim after October 7th
Thoughts on Purim after October 7th Purim begins this Saturday evening, March 23, with a service at 8:00pm, during which we will read the...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Mar 158 min read
Thoughts on Tabernacles and Acacia Trees
For more than a month now we have focused in our weekly Torah readings on the creation of a central shrine in the midst of the ancient...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Mar 89 min read
Thoughts on Studying Talmud for a Siyyum
Every year around this time, as we approach the new month of Adar (this year the second Adar), I begin preparing for a Siyyum for the eve...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Mar 17 min read
Thoughts on City Council Resolutions on Foreign Policy
I was at a meeting the other day where someone raised a question about an area of concern in town that the City Council should address. ...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Feb 237 min read
Thoughts on Birthdays in Jewish Tradition
This Shabbat we will be celebrating a very special birthday of one of our members who has attained the age of 90 this week. We are...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Feb 167 min read
Thoughts on Saints and Tzaddikim
This week, on our secular calendar, we marked St. Valentine’s Day. While Valentine was apparently a priest or bishop who defended...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Feb 913 min read
Thoughts on the Prayers for Tefillin
Re-posted from June 3, 2021 The Greeks posed a philosophical question regarding the ship which Theseus and the youth of Athens had...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Feb 98 min read
Thoughts on the World Wide Wrap
Thoughts on the World Wide Wrap This Sunday, is not only Superbowl Sunday, but for nearly 25 years it has been linked by the National...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Feb 27 min read
Thoughts on the Stories in the Bible
Thoughts on the Stories in the Bible I recall many years ago, a colleague describing a discussion with young people about some of the...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Jan 267 min read
Thoughts on Tu BiShvat and Etrogs
Thoughts on Tu BiShvat and Etrogs This week we celebrate Tu BiShvat, the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, designated by our...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Jan 214 min read
Thoughts on the Shabbat of Love
Thoughts on the Shabbat of Love Whenever we offer our prayers on Shabbat both in the Amidah and in the Friday night Kiddush we speak of...
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Rabbi Edward Friedman
Jan 117 min read
Thoughts on Snow in Jewish Tradition
The last time I was in Israel was about fourteen years ago. I was there for a conference during February, While there, I encountered a...
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