Posts Tagged: Pini Dunner sermons
Do Wealthy People Believe in God?
The 19th-century business behemoth John D. Rockefeller is often touted as the “wealthiest American of all time.” But although he was a relentless capitalist, he was...
We Don’t Need to Understand the Whole Torah to Embrace It
Socrates, the father of Greek philosophy, is reported by Plato to have declared: “If I know one thing, it is that I know nothing.” This...
The Unending Power of a Mitzvah
Most Hollywood movies are not particularly memorable, even the good ones, and it is rare for a feature film to make the kind of impact...
The Talmud’s Take on Keeping Up With the Joneses
On November 10, 1987, artist Arthur R. Momand died in New York at the age of 100. Although a short obituary appeared in The New...
Lech Lecha: How Abraham Learned to Speak
In the summer of 1725, a group of hunters near Hamelin, Lower Saxony, spotted a strange looking creature, unlike any animal they had ever seen...
The Mark of True Leadership
This week, we were offered two demonstrations of leadership in the face of adversity -- and they could not have been more different. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister...
Proximity to the Righteous Is Its Own Blessing
Next week, thousands of Jews from all over the world will travel to the sleepy town of Lezajsk, Poland. They will be pilgrim visitors to...
Family and Community: The Secrets of Jewish Endurance
The arrest of David and Louise Turpin in Perris, California, earlier this week was immediately followed by details of one of the most disturbing news stories...
When Is a Secret Not a Secret?
The infamous bon-vivant, Anthony Haden-Guest, is purported to have once told a friend: “Of course I can keep secrets; it’s the people I tell them...
Why Divergent Thinking Is Critical to Judaism
All of us have been shocked by the images of yeshivah boys and their rabbinic mentors disrupting traffic and causing mayhem in Israel. They were...
The Choice to Make Choices
We have a number of weddings coming up in my congregation. Therefore, I thought it would be wise to address the glaring contradiction that exists between a widely-held...
Jeremy Corbyn, Moses’ Spies and the Lust for Power
You are certainly familiar with the political crisis raging in Europe following the UK referendum result last week, which saw voters opt to sever the UK’s...
Water as a Metaphor for a Life of Torah
Water has been in the news a lot this week. In Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder used his State of the State address to apologize to...
