Yom Kippur 5784- 2023
We are Jonah The Machzor, the other name for the prayer book of the High…
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Kol Nidrei 5784- 2023
In 1917, Chaim Nachman Bialik, a Jewish poet and writer born in Ukraine in 1873,…
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Rabbi René’s Sermon- Rosh Hashanah Day 5784
In the months and weeks leading to the High Holy Days, a Rabbi feels a mounting pressure, a growing sense of urgency: what am I going to say to my community this year, as we are preparing to enter a new Jewish Year?
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Teshuvah, Resilience and Law
Rabbi René’s sermons on Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur. In his sermon on Kol Nidre,…
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Choose Life
Rabbi René’s sermon on Rosh Hashanah morning Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist philosopher, has allegedly…
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Our Esther moment?
Rabbi René’s sermon for Parashat Tsav When Mordecai found out what Haman was planning to…
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Completing the work
Finding light in the darkness – Reflections from Rabbi René, Parasha Pekudei The end of…
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“I’ve been there many times…..”
Rabbi René’s reflections for Mental Health Shabbat. ‘Let my people go’, said Moses to Pharaoh….
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The one who wrestled with God
Rabbi René’s D’var Torah on Parashat Vayishlach I would like to start with a quote…
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The eleventh hour
Rabbi René’s sermon on the eve of Remembrance Day On Saturday 13th November – the…
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