Rabbi Steinhardt’s Shabbat Greetings

Dear Friends, This past week I read that a space agency was taking applications from the first group of people who want to colonize Mars. Imagine? The most outstanding dimension of the process, in my mind, was...

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Dear Friends, There’s a rabbinic statement: “Mitzvah gorreret mitzvah, Aveirah gorreret aveirah.” It refers to the fact that a mitzvah (the fulfillment of an obligation or the doing of a good deed) leads to doing...

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Dear Friends, I have said and written this before. When things in the world seem so huge and so out of control, we as individuals can begin to feel small, inconsequential, or even helpless. But there are a few things we...

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Dear Friends,   On Tuesday, the world marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It was the end of one of the blackest moments in the history of humanity. Auschwitz has come to symbolize the depths...

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Dear Friends, Do you know what “Cathy Time” is? At B'nai Torah, there are periods of “Cathy Time” each week when the Director of our Mirochnick Religious School, Cathy Berkowitz, teaches, sings and tells stories to the children - not...

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Dear Friends, So much happening in the world. Many of the events are on a global scale with profound implications for our future. This Shabbat, we will talk about some of them; particularly the terror...

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Dear Friends, Once again terrorists have struck this week. First at the French satirical newspaper office, killing and maiming innocents; and then at the heart of Jewish Paris, attacking and attempting to take hostages of Jews shopping as...

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Dear Friends, I was sitting with family on the night of New Year’s Eve and someone asked the following question to all those around the table: “What do you predict for the year ahead?” The end...

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