Parashat Eikev-20 Av, 5773
07/25/2013 01:10:22 PM
Parashat Eikev-20 Av, 5773
by Cantor Phil Baron
“When you have eaten your fill and built fine houses
to live in, and your herds and flocks have multiplied,
and your silver and gold have increased, and everything you own has prospered, beware lest your heart grow haughty
and you forget the Lord your God.”
-Deut: 8:12
There's a joke. It...Read more...
From the Clergy Corner with Cantor Phil Baron
06/05/2013 09:08:22 AM
Parashat Korach-30 Sivan, 5773
by Cantor Phil Baron
I'm proud to announce that I've almost finished reading Moby Dick. Okay, I started it in 2008, but still…
It's a book that is by turns exciting and colorful, scholarly and literary, and also filled with an enormous amount of information that I don't care about. It was clearly written before the acronym TMI (“Too...Read more...
Parasha: Acharei Mot/K'doshim by Cantor Phil Baron
04/17/2013 03:36:22 PM
Parasha: Acharei Mot/K'doshim by Cantor Phil Baron
This week's parasha, Acharei Mot begins the section of Torah that is known as the “Holiness Code.”
In thinking about this parasha I was struck with a nagging question: how do you define holiness? The Torah sets out to specifically teach us how to achieve a state of holiness by doing certain things and refraining from...Read more...
From the Clergy Corner with Cantors Phil Baron and Herschel Fox
02/21/2013 11:38:22 AM
In the spirit of Purim, Cantor Fox and Cantor Baron were sitting around telling funny (not necessarily true) stories about a couple of our esteemed rabbis. Their conversation went something like this.
Cantor Fox: You know, Cantor Baron, years ago, way before your time (because you're soooo much younger than I am) I used to roast Rabbi Schulweis at the Purim Turnabout Service. It was a lot of laughs, and I really gave him a rough...Read more...
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