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Despair is Not an Option
Episode • Mar 19, 2020
The Decade of Dehumanization
Episode • Feb 6, 2020
Restraint and Transcendence
Episode • Jan 23, 2020
Nature Abhors a Vacuum. Antisemitism Loves One
Episode • Dec 12, 2019
The Promises of Israel
Episode • Nov 28, 2019
How Repentance Really Works
Episode • Nov 14, 2019
Where The Oppressed Shed Tears
Episode • Oct 31, 2019
Bad Faith Broke Us. Only Good Faith Can Fix Us.
Episode • Oct 17, 2019
Everyone Has a Right to Sanctuary
Episode • Aug 15, 2019
Keep The Fires Burning
Episode • Aug 8, 2019
Korach and the Unfinished Business of 1776
Episode • Aug 1, 2019
Entropy and the Imposition of Order
Episode • Jul 18, 2019
Love, Loss, and the Book of Ruth
Episode • Jul 11, 2019
There Are Only Two Commandments…The Rest is Commentary
Episode • Jul 4, 2019
Guns and the Disregard for Human Life
Episode • Jun 27, 2019
Valar Dohaeris
Episode • Jun 6, 2019
When Elijah Comes to the Seder
Episode • May 30, 2019
Do The Dew
Episode • May 23, 2019
The City of Peace
Episode • May 16, 2019
A Practice for Moral Clarity
Episode • May 9, 2019
The Ring is Not Complete Without the Diamond
Episode • May 2, 2019
Train Local, Act Global
Episode • Apr 25, 2019
There’s More to Racism than Blackface. There’s More to Reconciliation than Resignation
Episode • Mar 14, 2019
A Rabbi’s Lesson from Guatemala- All Lives Have Equal Value
Episode • Mar 7, 2019
Soft Hearts, Strong Hands
Episode • Feb 28, 2019
Succeeding at Failing
Episode • Feb 21, 2019
Confronting Pharaoh
Episode • Feb 14, 2019
Ancestors and Ghosts
Episode • Feb 7, 2019
Know Before Whom You Stand
Episode • Jan 31, 2019
Pluralism and Power: A Hanukkah Story
Episode • Jan 24, 2019
God of Victory
Episode • Jan 17, 2019
Pulpit Swap: Rabbi Michael Knopf at Seventh Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Episode • Jan 3, 2019
Pulpit Swap: Reverend Hollie Woodruff at Temple Beth El
Episode • Dec 27, 2018
Let It Go
Episode • Dec 20, 2018
2018 End Of Year Appeal
Episode • Dec 17, 2018
The Name You Earn
Episode • Dec 13, 2018
Love Just Because
Episode • Dec 6, 2018
Putting God Second
Episode • Nov 29, 2018
Praying for Rain and Reviving the Dead
Episode • Nov 22, 2018
Everything is Abel!
Episode • Nov 15, 2018
Embodying Gratitude, Elevating Joy
Episode • Nov 8, 2018
Don’t Just Repent. Vote
Episode • Nov 1, 2018
Think Different
Episode • Oct 28, 2018
The Responsibilities of Privilege
Episode • Oct 25, 2018
You Don’t Need Likes to Be Loved
Episode • Oct 18, 2018
The Torah’s Call for Civil Disobedience
Episode • Oct 11, 2018
What to Do When “We’re in Crazytown”
Episode • Oct 4, 2018
Just Walk Beside Me
Episode • Sep 27, 2018
Listen to Her Voice!
Episode • Sep 20, 2018
The Land of Israel: God’s Conditional Gift
Episode • Aug 16, 2018
The Most Counter-Cultural Commandment
Episode • Aug 9, 2018
Looking Backward to Move Forward
Episode • Aug 2, 2018
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Judah P. Benjamin
Episode • Jul 26, 2018
The World is Yours, But it Doesn’t Belong to You
Episode • Jul 19, 2018
A Kingdom of Priests
Episode • Jul 12, 2018
Not In Heaven
Episode • Jul 5, 2018
No One Invisible
Episode • Jun 28, 2018
God’s Spirit, Our Hands
Episode • Jun 14, 2018
No One Is Really Gone
Episode • May 31, 2018
What Will You Take With You?
Episode • May 24, 2018
Doubt, But Count
Episode • May 17, 2018
It’s Not “Passover”
Episode • May 10, 2018
Our Purpose is Peace
Episode • Apr 26, 2018
Melt Down Your Mirrors
Episode • Apr 12, 2018
The Real Sin of the Golden Calf
Episode • Mar 29, 2018
A Sanctuary From Weapons
Episode • Mar 8, 2018
No Other Gods
Episode • Feb 22, 2018
The Power Is Yours
Episode • Feb 8, 2018
Judah’s Journey
Episode • Dec 21, 2017
What Will You Take With You When You Go?
Episode • Nov 16, 2017
The Lulav and the Importance of Diversity
Episode • Nov 9, 2017
There’s No Sukkah Without U
Episode • Nov 2, 2017
Extremists for Love
Episode • Oct 26, 2017
Three Essentials to Pack for Your Journey
Episode • Oct 19, 2017
Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Teshuvah and the Challenge of Change
Episode • Oct 12, 2017
After Charlottesville, Be A Light
Episode • Oct 5, 2017
Teaching in Honor of Reb Sholom Brodt (z”l)
Episode • Sep 21, 2017
Pay Attention
Episode • Aug 31, 2017
Hope and Healing After Charlottesville
Episode • Aug 24, 2017
“I Believe” Reflection at Charlottesville Prayer Vigil
Episode • Aug 17, 2017
Only For Now
Episode • Aug 10, 2017
Difficult People
Episode • Jul 13, 2017
It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts
Episode • Jul 6, 2017
Do You Control Your Monuments, or Do Your Monuments Control You?
Episode • Jun 29, 2017
In Defense of Boredom
Episode • Jun 22, 2017
Twilight Of The Institutions
Episode • Jun 15, 2017
Heal the Leper, Heal the World
Episode • Jun 8, 2017
God’s Time, Our Time
Episode • Jun 1, 2017
Five Rabbis, Four Children, and a Yin-Yang
Episode • May 11, 2017
To God the Glory
Episode • Apr 27, 2017
Let’s Face Facts: The Torah is Political
Episode • Mar 23, 2017
What Jews Owe Refugees and Immigrants
Episode • Mar 16, 2017
Do You Believe in Miracles?
Episode • Mar 9, 2017
The Moral Message of God’s Sovereignty
Episode • Mar 2, 2017
My Body’s in Richmond, My Spirit’s in DC: Why I Protest
Episode • Feb 2, 2017
Your One Wild And Precious Life
Episode • Jan 26, 2017
Torah for the Post-Truth Era
Episode • Dec 22, 2016
The Brilliant Cognitive Dissonance of Yizkor and Simhat Torah
Episode • Nov 30, 2016
Redeem the Captive, Be a Blessing
Episode • Nov 23, 2016
True North
Episode • Nov 16, 2016
Escaping the Scapegoat
Episode • Oct 20, 2016
Doing Good Better
Episode • Oct 14, 2016
Remarks at 2016 Community Eid Dinner
Episode • Aug 25, 2016
Words Are Things
Episode • Aug 18, 2016
What To Look For In A Leader
Episode • Aug 4, 2016
How to Hear God’s Voice Today
Episode • Jun 30, 2016
In the Same Boat: A Message to the Class of 2016
Episode • Jun 23, 2016
The Gift of Presence
Episode • Jun 16, 2016
Are You All In?
Episode • Jun 9, 2016
Why Memory Matters
Episode • Jun 2, 2016
Shabbat and Leaving Egypt
Episode • May 26, 2016
The Question My Child Asks Me
Episode • May 19, 2016
The Questions Our Children Ask Us
Episode • May 12, 2016
Soul Food
Episode • Apr 7, 2016
How to Keep a Flame Eternal
Episode • Mar 31, 2016
Richmond City Council Invocation
Episode • Feb 18, 2016
Judaism and the Global Refugee Crisis
Episode • Feb 11, 2016
The Plague of Darkness
Episode • Jan 28, 2016
Can We Change?
Episode • Jan 23, 2016
Holy Impatience
Episode • Jan 21, 2016
What it Means to be a Child of Judah
Episode • Dec 24, 2015
Jacob Was a Refugee
Episode • Nov 26, 2015
Why Conservative Judaism Matters
Episode • Nov 19, 2015
Why Sodom Was Destroyed
Episode • Nov 5, 2015
A Better Lion, and a Better You
Episode • Oct 29, 2015
David’s Fallen Sukkah
Episode • Oct 16, 2015
The Sukkah and the Hurricane
Episode • Oct 14, 2015
The Sukkah as Spiritual Conditioning
Episode • Oct 12, 2015
In Every Direction
Episode • Oct 9, 2015
Bound Together
Episode • Oct 8, 2015
Our Kids
Episode • Oct 2, 2015
Mastering the Service of the Heart
Episode • Oct 1, 2015
The Diamond
Episode • Sep 23, 2015
Where They Are
Episode • Sep 22, 2015
Make Everything Torah
Episode • Sep 21, 2015
The Responsibilities of Luckiness
Episode • Sep 14, 2015
Show, Don’t Tell
Episode • Sep 2, 2015
Fake It Till You Make It
Episode • Aug 24, 2015
Israel – Loyal Opposition
Episode • Aug 23, 2015
Israel – The Fragile Miracle
Episode • Aug 19, 2015
How Prayer Works
Episode • Aug 17, 2015
Israel – Why It Matters
Episode • Aug 12, 2015
The Fools of Prophecy
Episode • Aug 10, 2015
Israel – The Agitator State
Episode • Aug 6, 2015
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Episode • Aug 3, 2015
For the Charleston Nine
Episode • Jun 22, 2015
Cowed by How
Episode • Jun 18, 2015
Will You Marry Me?
Episode • May 21, 2015
Words Create Worlds
Episode • May 18, 2015
The Questions God Asks
Episode • May 13, 2015
Holiness, From Baltimore to Nepal
Episode • May 11, 2015
Let It Go
Episode • May 8, 2015
RE-JEW-VENATE RVA
Episode • May 1, 2015
Whole Bodies, Holy Souls
Episode • Apr 30, 2015
To Be Jewish is to March Together
Episode • Apr 29, 2015
To Hate Injustice Is To Be Jewish
Episode • Apr 8, 2015
To Doubt is to Be Jewish
Episode • Apr 6, 2015
Shabbat Salvation
Episode • Mar 20, 2015
Mooved to Empathy
Episode • Mar 16, 2015
The Purpose-Driven Life
Episode • Mar 13, 2015
Live Long and Prosper
Episode • Mar 6, 2015
Fair Trade
Episode • Feb 26, 2015
God’s Dwelling Place
Episode • Feb 20, 2015
Breaking Free of Fear
Episode • Feb 12, 2015
Planning Your Vacation (in Time)
Episode • Feb 11, 2015
Breaking Free of Materialism
Episode • Jan 28, 2015
Square Pegs
Episode • Jan 27, 2015
Breaking Free of Insecurity
Episode • Jan 21, 2015
Selfless Prayer
Episode • Jan 20, 2015
Breaking Free of Cynicism
Episode • Jan 14, 2015
Shalom From Shabbat
Episode • Jan 12, 2015
How Can I Stand Before Our Father in 2015?
Episode • Dec 31, 2014
Perfect Imperfection
Episode • Dec 29, 2014
Parenting from the Inside Out
Episode • Dec 19, 2014
Implicit Bias and Dangerous Silence
Episode • Dec 10, 2014
The Dawning of the Age of Jacob
Episode • Nov 28, 2014
Don’t Box Me In
Episode • Nov 26, 2014
The Spirituality of Welcoming
Episode • Nov 12, 2014
The Book of Torah
Episode • Nov 10, 2014
The Ideal and the Real
Episode • Nov 5, 2014
Happy Challahween!
Episode • Nov 4, 2014
Rabbi Knopf’s Installation
Episode • Oct 31, 2014
Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?
Episode • Oct 29, 2014
From Ferguson to West Africa, Who is My Brother?
Episode • Oct 24, 2014
Light It Up
Episode • Oct 23, 2014
Why Sukkot?
Episode • Oct 16, 2014
An Edifice or an Act of Love?
Episode • Oct 15, 2014
The Quantified Life
Episode • Oct 9, 2014
Recipe for a Renaissance
Episode • Oct 6, 2014
Higher and Higher
Episode • Oct 3, 2014
The Internal Israel War
Episode • Oct 1, 2014
A House of Prayer for All People
Episode • Sep 29, 2014
Experiential Education
Episode • Sep 24, 2014
In Memory of Prof. Dov Zlotnick (z”l)
Episode • Sep 17, 2014
Consider the Parking Lot
Episode • Sep 15, 2014
Don’t Look Away
Episode • Sep 10, 2014
Does Power Corrupt
Episode • Sep 8, 2014
Conflict Resolution
Episode • Sep 3, 2014
Judge Yourself Fairly
Episode • Sep 1, 2014
Perspective and Reality
Episode • Aug 27, 2014
Ferguson and the Jewish Call for Justice
Episode • Aug 25, 2014
The Ebola Epidemic
Episode • Aug 20, 2014
Torah from the Jester, the Genie, and John Keating
Episode • Aug 18, 2014
Planting For Our Children
Episode • Aug 13, 2014
Keeping Up With the Steins
Episode • Aug 11, 2014
True, Important, Kind
Episode • Aug 6, 2014
The Secret of Jewish Survival
Episode • Aug 5, 2014
Get Up, Move
Episode • Aug 4, 2014
What You Can Do for Israel (And What You Can’t)
Episode • Jul 30, 2014
Judgment Free Zone
Episode • Jul 28, 2014
Oath of Office
Episode • Jul 23, 2014
#menschesofrichmond
Episode • Jul 22, 2014
Credo – The Last Har Zion Sermon
Episode • Jun 30, 2014
“The ‘Why’ Revolution”
Episode • Jun 23, 2014
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