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Archived Sermons
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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All sermons given by Rabbi Seymour Rossel during the year 5767. Click here. Once the file opens, click on the 'Bookmarks' tab on the left to see an index of all the individual sermons.
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Archived Sermons
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Written by Rabbi Seymour Rossel
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Monday, 13 November 2006 |
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All sermons given by Rabbi Seymour Rossel during the year 5766. Click here. Once the file opens, click on the 'Bookmarks' tab on the left to see an index of all the individual sermons.
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Rabbi's Sermons and Messages
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Written by Rabbi Seymour Rossel
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
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What kind of book should the Torah be? Should it aggrandize the Israelites and celebrate their armies and their conquests? Or should it be a record of God's desires for human endeavor? This question once occupied the mind of the editors of the Torah. In this week's portion, we get a glimpse of their decision-making process.
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Rabbi's Sermons and Messages
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Written by Rabbi Seymour Rossel
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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In this week's Torah portion, Moses sends out twelve spies to "tour" the land and to describe it for the people. Of these twelve spies, only two -- Joshua and Caleb -- bring accurate reports. The people, though, believe the reports of the other ten, dismissing the good news brought by the two forthright spies and embracing the bad news of the ten. For this, the punishment is severe. But the issue of this sermon is the role of spies and, in particular, the role of a small group of Jewish spies who aided the British in the First World War.
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Written by Rabbi Seymour Rossel
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
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This week's portion includes the instructions for creating the silver trumpets to be used by the priests. This opens the whole issue of the role of music in Jewish culture and in worship.
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