Rabbi Artson discusses the nature of social change in this weeks podcast session.
Rabbi Artson discusses the nature of social change in this weeks podcast session.
This is a Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Artson. He discusses topics such as love and justice.
I was travelling with my family to Independence Hall, the Philadelphia locus of the American Revolution. In the middle of this storied courtyard stands a large bell. The entire world knows that bell. It was hung in the Philadelphia State House in 1753, and it sounded to summon the pre-Independence Colonial Legislature into session, and it was used after the Revolution for the Pennsylvania State Legislature as well.
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You Can Be Too Rich. We are justly proud of the ability of our economy to provide so much comfort and so many fundamentals to our own people and to those around the world. The power of American enterprise, with its abundance and its energy, is remarkable by any standard. What used to be affordable only by nobility and the wealthy is now within reach of the average American. Owning a car is no longer a symbol of opulence, and just about everybody has a television set in their own home.
The Rock! - His deeds are perfect,
Yea, all His ways are just;
A faithful God, never false,
True and upright is He.
(Deuteronomy 32:4)
Here's a word that you rarely hear in a rabbinic sermon, unless I suppose you are a member of Valley Beth Shalom and Rabbi Harold Schulweis is speaking. The word is: Hyperthymesia: the documented condition in which a person is incapable of forgetting any detail of anything that ever happened to them. While there are times when some of us might wish for greater recall then we have most of the time, people who suffer from this condition actually suffer terribly.
Rabbi Artson records his 2013 Ordination Ceremony for this podcast.