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Parshat BaMidbar 5781 - Making space for others

Sfat Emet on the holiness of letting other shine. Baal Shem Tov on the two kinds of tzaddik/righteousness.

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Parshat Shemini 5781 - The Four Habits of Highly Morally Effective Kosher Birds

The Mei HaShiloach - R' Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Ishbitz - takes apart the four things that make a bird unkosher, and then derives some interesting principles of personal growth from them.
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Parshat Pesach - Deliverance, Faith, and Awe
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What does it mean for the people to suddenly 'have faith' and also 'have awe'? What does it mean for us? The Tzanzer rebbe on deliverance before faith; R' Menachem Mendel of Kotzk on great awe leading to faith. R' Yisrael Salanter on developing and acquiring a higher sense of Yirah.
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Vayikra 5781 - Get up and do that thing

Maggid of Medzeritch on fulfilling your purpose and elevating yourself. A self-control text by the Seer of Lublin. And the Pele Yoetz with a wild text combining Shabbat, the Asham offering, turning bad to good, and reminding ourselves of God as Creator.
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Ki Tissa 5781 - Mysteries of connection and Creative Destruction
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The Mei HaShiloach on what it means for God reveal God's self to Moses - and what it means for God's love for Am Yisrael. Torah Temimah on creative destruction - sometimes you have to destroy something to move forward.
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Miketz 5781 - Learn from those who have done hard work

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh, son of the Baal Shem Tov, on how to pick your mentor in spiritual growth; R' Shmuel Eliyahu of Zvolin on balancing inner pain with outer tranquility; the Mei HaShiloach on how enduring suffering leads to empathy.
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Vayetze 5781 - God and Torah are for everybody

The Baal Shem Tov on how to spend your money. Shnuer Zalman of Liadi on what we send to God, and what God sends back to us. And, probably my favorite, Rabbi Shimon Shalom of Amshinov - how God became accessible by everybody.
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Toldot 5781 - The Universe in Equilibrium
Deep dive into issues of balance as portrayed in the Jacob and Esau story. Rabeinu Bachya notes that Esau wanted to buy and Jacob wanted to sell - a circle - like the lentil itself. Nechama Leibowitz explores parallels in the Biblical language regarding Esau and Mordechai.
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Chayei Sarah 5781 - Recognizing our own bias
Tzvi Hirsh of Rimanov about knowing God; Menachem Mendel of Kotzk about recognizing our own bias; Rebbe Nachman and Simcha Bunim about prayer amidst the fields.
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Vayera 5781 - Justice, Punishment, Lovingkindness, and Repentance
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Lech Lecha 5781 - Truth
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Noach 5781 - Balancing Intensity
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Bereshit 5781 - Seeing the Good in the World, even when things are not so good
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Yom Kippur 5781​
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Rosh Hashanah 5781 
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Shoftim 5780 - Protect yourself from negative influences
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Hassidut of Social Unrest, Pt. 2
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Hassidut of Social Unrest, Pt. 1 
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Shavuot Teaching - Hassidut for the Quarantined Soul
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Naso 5780 - Without Peace, there is no value to Blessing; Baal Shem Tov & Rav Avraham of Slonim, R' Meir Simcha of Divinsk
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BaMidbar 5780 - Fire, Water, Emptiness, Wilderness: meaning in the metaphors of Torah 
Zera Kodesh, Shem MiShmuel, and Rabbi Hanoch Tzvi of Bendzhin
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Behar 5780 - What is the 'holy' part of 'holidays'? - Me'or Eynayim, Simcha Bunim, R' Eliezer of Metz
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Achrei Mot-Kedoshim 5780 - M.M. of Kotzk, Chiddushei Ha Rim, Rav Aharon Zoldener, R' Salanter
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Love and Fear in the time of Coronavirus - Dvar Torah Shemini
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​Shemini 5780 - Silence, or Singing, through suffering
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Learn the tunes from Jewish prayer

Below are postings of portions of the songs and prayers from our services. Listen along to master the traditional prayers and tunes we use at synagogue.

Kabbalat Shabbat - Friday Night Service

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lai_lai_lai_barchu.mp3
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shema_veahavta.mp3
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amidah_sefatai_tiftach_avot_imahot.mp3
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gvurot.mp3
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aleinu.mp3
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Shabbat Morning

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Shabbat Afternoon and Havdalah

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ashrei_2_happy_are_those.mp3
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adonai_sefatai_tiftach_2.mp3
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minchah_amidah_avot_imahot_gvurot.mp3
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