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Category: D’var Torah and Sermons

D'var Torah and Sermons / Words from the Rabbi

A HOLIDAY MESSAGE FROM RABBI ARNOLD SALTZMAN

Dear Congregant, In a time of events which have caused unfathomable suffering, we find that even in this time we are inspired by selflessness and sacrifice as we witness rescuers …

D'var Torah and Sermons / Newsletter / Words from the Rabbi

Rabbi’s Sermon: “Rule 19”

by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman How do we explain that a gifted and dedicated woman in the United States Senate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, was silenced this past week by using Rule …

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D’var Torah:  Parashat Bo

Exodus 10:1 – 13:16 “Being Humble” Every synagogue is a beit tefillah, a beit midrash, and a beit Knesset:  a house of prayer, study, and assembly.  We are here on …

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Rabbi’s Sermon: “Love and marriage — and impulsiveness”

by Rabbi Arnold Saltzman This sermon appeared in Washington Jewish Week on Dec 2, 2016:  http://washingtonjewishweek.com/35005/love-and-marriage-and-impulsiveness It is difficult for me to understand, yet my European-born father match-married several of …

D'var Torah and Sermons / Newsletter / Words from the Rabbi

What Is In a Musical Note? Or: Therapy for a Rabbi-Cantor

This was Rabbi Saltzman’s sermon during our Dec. 10 Shabbat morning service: You may be surprised by this, but rabbis and cantors can be good candidates for therapy.  As a …

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Don’t Curse the Darkness, Light a Candle

A Hanukkah Message from Rabbi Rick Jacobs, URJ President In his essay “The Legacy of the Maccabees,” Dr. Shaye Cohen writes: “From the perspective of world history and Jewish history, …

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D’var Torah for Chayei Sarah

George Gazarek gave this d’var on Friday, Nov 25 There are five Torah portions named after men in the Torah but only one named after a woman: Sarah, the wife …

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D’var Torah for Rosh Hashanah

Suzanne Darby gave this d’var on Rosh Hashanah. Abraham’s binding of his son Isaac, the Torah portion our congregation reads each year at Rosh Hashanah, is quite familiar and memorable …

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How Yom Kippur is Like Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’

George Gazarek gave this d’var on Yom Kippur. This was in the Reform Judaism Weekly Update last week.  I thought it was good enough to share with you this morning. …

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New Season in the Spiritual Cycle

By Rabbi Arnold Saltzman This article appeared in the Washington Jewish Week at http://washingtonjewishweek.com/33731/new-season-in-the-spiritual-cycle/editorial-opinion/torah_commentary/ That week’s Torah portion was Nitzavim, Deuteronomy 29:9 – 30:20. The synagogue poet Ruth Brin wrote, …

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Congregation Sha’are Shalom

18 Henry Ford Circle
Waldorf, MD 20602
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Shabbat Services are held on the second Saturday of the month at 10:00 AM and the first and fourth Fridays of the month at 8:00 PM at Temple Sha'are Shalom in Waldorf, MD
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