Real Rabbi NYC
By Juliet Elkind-Cruz
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As a rabbi, I like keeping things real, whether about my life, or about Torah. And I do it all with a good helping of irreverence. I try to be both short and sweet, starting with my own life, my struggles, and those of the world today, and connecting to lessons I can take from Torah. My goal is to bring you the meaning I find with a new and relevant perspective as I discover it for myself, leaving you with a blessing or a prayer for the week each time.
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Multivalence & Double Exposure (Ki Tetzei)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Judging, Returning, Repairing (Shoftim)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Re'eh & Completely Unprepared
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Pockets of Light Among the Ashes (Eikev)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Be Comforted, Again, My People
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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The Irritating Pearls of Humanity
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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At its Worst, At its Best (Tazria-Metzora)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Finding the Holy in the Ordinary, Grieving Inwardly, & Shemini
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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All Our Hopes, Dreams, & Prayers...into the Ashes?
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Creating Order in Systems Amidst Chaos & VaYikra
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Binding Chains & Pekudei
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Mirrors, What Might a Jewish Communist Funeral Look Like, & Vayakhel
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Masquerades & Ki Tissa
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Angel or A-Hole & Tetsaveh
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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A Brush With Death & T'rumah
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Enlarging and Shrinking our Hearts & Mishpatim
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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In the Image of God, For the Love of God, & Yitro
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Judaism, Loving Your Enemies, & Beshalakh
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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On Sourdough, On Longevity, On Privilege, On Seeing, On Enslavement, On Choices, On Being (too) Polite, & On Shevat
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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The Best Deal Ever
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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From Bitterness and Darkness to Thanks, Dreams & Light
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Flooded by Feelings & The Soft Light of the Moon
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Wherein Lies the Blessing? (Yom Kippur, V'Zot Habracha, Tears From the Sky)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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A Little Torah, a Lot of Tears, & Yom Kippur
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Trust the Love & Nitzavim-Vayelekh
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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The Tension of Living & Ki Tavo
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Ki Tetzei?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Hidden in Plain Sight & Shoftim
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Swim Towards the Shark & R'eih
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Whistling Swans & Eikev
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Two Weeks in a Row & Va'etkhanan
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Cat Ladies, Hard Facts, & Devarim
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Say It To My Face & Mattot-Masei
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Trump Anointed (& Pinhas)
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Sexually Speaking, Idols, Dreams, & Balak
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The Surprise of Faith & Hukkat
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The Potential for Celebration & Korakh
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Throwing Phones & Shlakh Lekha
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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All Hearts and Roses (not!) & B'ha'alot'kha
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Hoping for Inspiration for Shavuos, & Naso
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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A Righteous Fight, Done with Hate, & Bamidbar
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The Whispers of B'khukotai
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May 30, 2024 |
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At Least Try, & B'har
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May 23, 2024 |
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Nothing New Except You People & Emor
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May 15, 2024 |
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Two Weddings, Campus Protests, Holocaust Remembrance Day, & Kedoshim (You Know What I Mean?)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Expansiveness & Akharey Mot
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May 02, 2024 |
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Difficult Conversations, A Passover Sacrifice & Metzora
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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A Serious and Total Eclipse of the Heart, Passover Cleaning, & Tazria
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Just a Poem (and a little bit more) & Shemini
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Lessons in Bravery from Death & Tzav
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Come Sunday, Be Present, and Vayikra
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Heresy; Create Tension, Get Attention, & P’kudey
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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A Lavish Ukrainian Wedding, an Owl, and Vayakhel
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Stretching, Late to the Game, & Ki Tissa
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Aliens, Whales, & Tetzaveh
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Burying a Treasure & T’rumah
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Sapphires Under God’s Feet & Mishpatim
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Fantasy and Yitro
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Cowardice, Bravery, & B’shalakh
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Six Feet Under & Tevet
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Thanksgiving Stuffing & Kislev
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Bitter Heshvan Living Up To Its Name, & Light in the Darkness
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Two Weddings, a Funeral, and an Unveiling
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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God Willing (Ha’azinu)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Newer-Truer vs. Oldy-Moldy (Nitzavim/Vayelikh)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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A Hard Pill to Swallow & Ki Tavo
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Zero Expectations & Ki Teitzei
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Go Woke, Go Broke, Stone Throwing, Happy Elul, & Shoftim
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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R’eih and The Choices We Make
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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A Whack On the Head & Eikev
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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God is a Communist (Tisha B’av & Va’etchanan)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Which Way Do We Look?
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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On the Way (Matot-Masei & Am I Worthy?)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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All About Magic (Hukkat & Balak)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Lords, Dukes, Kings, Gods, & Korakh
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Weddings & Blazers; Fringes & Assumptions and Shlakh Lekha
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Fire & Brimstone, and Lost in Torah
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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New Territory, Misogyny, Naso, B’ha’a’lot’cha.
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Please Count Me In & Bamidbar
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May 18, 2023 |
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Walk With Me & B’har/B’khukotai
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May 12, 2023 |
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Blemishing Judaism & Emor
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May 05, 2023 |
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An Imperfect Cup of Coffee (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Solitude, Loneliness, & Tazria-Metsora
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Bucket Brigades and Sh’mini
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Without Bathroom Breaks? (Tzav)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Tree Hugging, Rudeness, & Vayikra
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Not just afterthoughts on ki Tissa! Vayakhel/pekudei & vanity and social media
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Of Life and Limb, Stinky Messes, and Ki Tissa
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Clear Drawers, Jumbled Rubber Bands, Empty Bells, and Tetzaveh
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Heart of the Matter & T’rumah
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Bubbles & Mishpatim
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Revelation, the Neurosis of Yitro, & Ten Utterances
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Zigzags, Song, Split Seas & Split Minds of Beshalakh
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Imposter Syndrome, a GPS, and Bo
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Shortness of Breath, Hearing Problems, & Va-era
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Keeping Things Real & Sh’mot
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Beginnings, Endings, Whole-Hearted Walking, and Vayechi
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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The Truth of Your Life & Vayigash
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Colors, Divided Souls, Higher Selves, & Mikkeitz
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Dreams, A Land of Fear, and Vayeshev
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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And He Sent; Vayishlakh
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Rock Bottom & Va’yetzei
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes & Toldot
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Old Man Rabbi & Chayei Sarah
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Darkness, Light, and Va’yera
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Frum Jewish Black Boy & Lekh Lekha
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Numbness, Knowing, & Noah
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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A Baby and B’reishit
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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A Simcha & V’zot Ha-Bracha
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Don’t Change/Surely Change & Ha-Azinu
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Who Am I To Judge? (Vayeilekh & Yom Kippur)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Tears of Gratitude & Nitzavim
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Milk, Honey, & Blessings (Ki Tavo)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Till Death Do Us Part, Ki Teitzei, and Fences
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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From Bloody Guilt to Mazel Tov & Shoftim
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Seeing With Generous Eyes & R’ei
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Look in the Mirror (Eikev)
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Panic, Prayer, & Va’etkhanan
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Words, Miracles, Life Expectancy (and other things)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Russian Dolls, Mattot-Mas’ei, and Tisha b’Av
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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God’s Image in Pinchas?
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Curses to Blessings & Balaam
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Laws of the Land: Hukkat
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Hollywood & Korach
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Unthinkable & Shlach Lecha
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Jade and joy: b’ha’alotcha
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Miami Vice; B’midbar
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Love the Earth (and moss): B’khukotai
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May 24, 2022 |
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My People, My Mountain: B’Har
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May 20, 2022 |
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The Rejects of Emor
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May 13, 2022 |
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Cleanliness, Godliness & K’doshim
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May 05, 2022 |
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The Promise of the Land
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Dayenu and Cancel Culture
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Scrubbing It Away & Metzora
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Spoiled Child, Birthdays, & Tazria
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Deaf, Blind and Dumb? (Shemini)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Turning it Upside Down (Tzav)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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How do we?? (Va’Yikra)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Scary Good Girls & P’kudei
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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That Can’t Be All (Vayak’hel)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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I asked for rags? (Ki Tissa)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Bells on their robes and blood on their hands: Tetzaveh
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Carving out the gifts of T’rumah
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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A wedding stuck in time and Mishpatim
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Snakes or toilet brushes? And Yitro
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Toilet Bowls and Walls of Water
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Come into the Darkness: Bo
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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How Whole is Your Heart? (Va-era)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Oy! (Sh’mot & Solstice)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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A Reason for Jubilation: Vayigash
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Waking Up: Miketz
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Prostitutes, Rings and Va-Yeishev
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Yes to the Dress? (Vayishlach)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Need I Explain?? (Vayeitzei)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Broken Yolks and Toldot
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Caves, chaos, and caving in: Chayei Sarah
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Laughing at Angels: Va-Yera
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Entitlement, Majesty and Lekh Lekha
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Oh, No, Noah!
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Was it Good or Was it Bad? (Breishit)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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What’s in Your Head? (Sukkos & V’zot Ha’bracha
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Push-Up Competition and Yom Kippur/Ha’azinu
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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A Plumbing Issue: Rosh Hashanah & Va-Yeilekh
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Who By Fire?
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Don’t F** Up; It’s a Commandment (Ki Tavo)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Starving Children? Where? (Eikev)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Enough Already! (Va’etchanan)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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F & M: D’varim & Tisha B’Av
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Attitudes, Platitudes & the Promise of Bliss: Mattot-Masei
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Joie de Vivre: not so Pinchas
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Real Rabbi NYC (Trailer)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Great Story (maybe not true): Balak
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Jun 23, 2021 |