by Rabbi Ken Brodkin | Sep 9, 2019 | Elul, Holiday
Ladies and gentlemen, we have hit the jackpot. Whichever political party you love or hate – life here in the US is pretty amazing. There is economic bounty, political freedom and only four years until you get to vote your least favorite politician out of office....
by Rabbi Ken Brodkin | Sep 5, 2019 | Holiday
Ever feel that you don’t know where your destiny lies? You’re not alone. Ever since Avraham, the Jewish people have been on a vulnerable journey to a destination that’s often unknown. *** This past April, four days before Pesach, I arrived in Israel. I went...
by Rabbi Ken Brodkin | Aug 27, 2019 | Holiday
Meaning of Time Recently, my wife was diagnosed with an intracranial tumor. Though benign, this large tumor exerted pressure on her optic nerve, and she experienced significant loss of vision over a period of several months. For a long time, we were in the dark...
by Rabbi Ken Brodkin | Aug 11, 2019 | Posts
A Moral Crisis A young woman recently asked her father, upon his retirement, if he had fulfilled his life dreams. Her father remarked that his greatest accomplishments were not his business success. Rather, it was the moral choices that he made: standing aside his...
by Rabbi Ken Brodkin | Aug 7, 2019 | Posts
The Roots of Destruction For much of the world, summer is associated with baseball, beaches and BBQs. For us Jews, we think about national crises and existential challenges. Our rabbis say that it all comes down to speech. As the Gemara teaches, the Second Temple was...
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