A New Midrash for Sh'miniLeviticus 10:1-3 Now Aaron’s sons Nadav and Abihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered before...
Rosh Hashanah 5784 / 2023CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS SERMON (Go to 1:30 in the video if you'd like to skip directly to the sermon.) While you might not recognize the...
Rosh Hashanah 2022/5783The morning that the Dobbs decision was expected to be released, I was sitting in my office, refreshing the Supreme Court’s website over...
June 24th: We Are the SotahRabbi Bearman's Note: This reflection is based on the Sotah ritual- first described in the Book of Numbers- where a woman would be forced...
A Sermon For May 27th 2022CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS SERMON (Go to 47:50) Shabbat Shalom, friends. I want to begin by saying that I spent some time this week...
A Sermon for NoachThis week’s Torah portion is Parashat Noach, and it includes two very famous stories (and a lot of genealogies). The first of the...
Moses & the StormAccording to tradition, Rosh Chodesh Elul (the first day of the month before the High Holy Days) was the day that Moses went back up...
A Sermon for NasoThis week’s Torah portion, Naso, is the second portion in the book of Numbers. In the middle of the parashah, nestled between seemingly...
A Story of MotherhoodThe sound woke me from a deep sleep. It must have triggered the instinct that caring for my own son had planted deeply in my brain...
Be Holy, EarthlingsIn this week’s double Torah portion - Acharei Mot, Kedoshim- we read a very famous verse, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and say...
A New Midrash for Ki tisaTHE ISRAELITES: The whispers have been flying for days. They buzz and bite like the flies that tormented the Egyptians. Moses has been...