Author: Marc Rudolph

Back From Vacation Shabbat Shalom. It is great to be back here this evening with Congregation Beth Shalom. Middy and I missed you.  We had a wonderful vacation, what I…

Walking Modestly Before G-d   In 2001, Rabbi Aurthur Green wrote a book entitled These Are The Words.  In it he defines and discusses 149 Hebrew words that he believes…

Take Me Out to the Ball Game A couple of new Jews arrived in town from Boston this year, and they hold the promise to make winners out of Chicagoland's…

The Power of Money In this week's Torah reading, Moses instructs twelve spies, one for each of Israel's tribes, to investigate the characteristics of the land the people are about…

All of us acknowledge that to err is human.  Yet, most of us go through life assuming that we are right about almost everything – from the big things, like…

In a proclamation dated 5th of May, 1868, General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared that the 30th of May, 1868 would be the…

Be Mindful and Multiply Recently I met in my office with a young Jewish couple who were trying to find a rabbi to marry them this New Years Eve.  After getting…

             Kashrut -- The Hidden Wisdom of the Torah                   The first ten chapters of Leviticus deal with the laws specific to the Sanctuary. The remainder of Leviticus deals…

The Four Freedoms Passover is the holiday of storytelling par-excellence.  We are told four times in the Torah that we must tell our children the story of Passover.  We have…

Making Mistakes Our parasha for this week, Vayikra, deals with the types of sacrifices that may be brought to the Tabernacle.  The first three sacrifices are the olah offering, the…