Yom Kippur Day 5775/2014
Our Promised LandYitzchak Epstein was the first to understand the challenge. Back in 1907, Epstein, a writer, linguist and pioneer in the instruction of Modern Hebrew, published an essay entitled…
These are Rabbi Marc Rudolph’s weekly sermons.
Our Promised LandYitzchak Epstein was the first to understand the challenge. Back in 1907, Epstein, a writer, linguist and pioneer in the instruction of Modern Hebrew, published an essay entitled…
Forgiving our Worst SelvesHad I been a rabbi in the Middle Ages, charged with the task of choosing a prayer that would open the services of the holiest day of…
Finding Spirituality in the Most “Unlikely” Places I used to wear my yarmulke on airplanes but I stopped a few years ago. Wearing my yarmulke would guarantee meeting some very…
Take Off Our ShoesLeon Wieseltier, the literary editor of the New Republic, wrote a book a number of years ago called Kaddish. It is a meditation on the year that…
Something momentous has happened in Naperville, and I want to share that with you this evening. I have been attending a class called “Total Body Fitness” twice a week for…
The Hidden and RevealedThis week, every time I turn on the television or open a newspaper, or read online, I hear about – the crisis in the National Football League.…
Some of the people I admire most are working class people. There is the waitress who serves you with a smile after standing on her feet for eight hours; the…
Our parasha this week instructs the Israelites not to offer sacrifices in any place that they may see, but only at the places that G-d may indicate. Earlier in the…
Some Thoughts on the Deaths of Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall This week we lost two great American actors: Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall. Fellow Americans and people from all…
The Answer to our PrayersYesterday morning our adult study group read the first chapter of the Book of Lamentations – the scroll that we read on Tisha B’Av. The first…