Final Sermon Cheadle Synagogue- Shabbat Hagadol
Courage This Shabbat is known throughout the Jewish world as Shabbat Hagadol- The Great Shabbat. At a Brit Milah we bless the baby, Ze...
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Sermon Yeshurun Shul- Delivered 1st of March 2014
Mediocrity VS Excellence A number of years ago I applied for the BBC Apprentice show. I didn’t have a business plan and the idea of...
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Parashat #Pikudei- Master of the House
Master of the house This week is the final instalment of the Mishkan saga. We have heard and studied every detail of the House of God for...
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Cheadle Sermon Parashat Tetzaveh 8th Feb.2014
Cheadle Sermon Parashat Tetzaveh 8th Feb.2014 Once there was a guru who wanted to train his two disciples by giving them a practical...
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Parashat #Tzaveh
Parashat Tzaveh If you are a parent, be a parent !! I heard the most beautiful music on Saturday night. The melody was so powerful that I...
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Parashat #Terumah
For your eyes only How do you cope when you sense that someone is staring at you? OK, it might depend on who is staring, you might be...
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Sermon Delivered in Yeshurun Shul Cheadle UK on 18th January 2014- Yitro
It really is great to be imperfect The giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai created the Jewish people and brought purpose to their freedom....
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Parashat #Mishpatim
I just want to belong Many years ago the Labour Party had a slogan: ‘Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’. That meant: it...
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Parashat #Yitro
Barriers During a past winter holiday I took my family to see the changing of the guard. My young children were fascinated by the thought...
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Parashat #Beshalach
Parashat Beshalach Come Sing with me This Shabbat is one of the few throughout the year that is given a special name. It is called...
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Sermon Given This Morning in Cheadle shul 4/01/14
Cheadle Parashat Bo – Bar Mitzvah Joe Rose 5774 Mazal Tov, to family Rose on Joe’s Bar Mitzva this morning. To Parents, Sharon and...
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Parashat #Bo
Can you see me? Oscar Wilde once said “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life”. The recent spate of bad weather that has...
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Parashat #Va’era
Parashat Va’era Don’t croak if life is getting you down This week allow your imaginations to run wild as you make sense of the first...
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Parashat Shemot
Parashat Shemot It’s all in the name We begin the second book of the Torah this week, the book of Shemot. The opening verses remind the...
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Sermon on Nelson Mandela and Joseph – Delivered 14th December 2013
Cheadle Drasha Parashat Vayechi 5774 Years spent away from loved ones, languishing in prison, deprived of dignity, respect, yearning for...
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Parashat Vayechi
Parashat Vayechi To Be or Not to Be? Every year when we read the final section in the book of Bereishit, I feel sad as we bid farewell to...
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School Assembly Nelson Mandela RIP
A collection of ideas for use at School Assembly: King David High School Assembly Monday 9th December 2013 Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela...
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Lessons to be learnt from the Maccabees by Rabbi Ruben
The ideas below really resonate with me So another Chanukah has passed, and besides an attack of post-doughnut heartburn, we are ready...
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Parashat Vayigash
If the Torah narratives were made into a TV series, this week would be the series finale. After more than twenty years of agonizing...
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Special Commemorative AJEX Shabbat
Drasha Cheadle – Vayishlach 5764 AJEX SHABBAT Deputy Mayoress of Stockport My Lord Mayor of Manchester Mayor and Mayoress of Trafford...
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Just Pause
The calendar hanging on the wall in our kitchen tells me that this Shabbos is an hafsoko. Sandwiched between Parashas Shekalim and Zachor...
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A time for wailing and a time for dancing
When difficulties overtake us, when darkness envelopes our inner world it is often impossible to see a better tomorrow. We read a few...
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Wishing you Good Shabbos
Imagine you were camped around Har Sinai. You’ve just heard directly from Hakadosh Boruch Hu. It’s the first Shabbos post the national...
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Making space for every Jew
Dovid Ha’melech writes in Tehilim that Yerusholayim is an “Ir sh’chubra la yachdav” a city that unites. Rashi comments that “there is a...
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Smile, you are in love!
For over twenty years I have had the privilege of sharing the beauty of our mesora with children who do not have the zechus to be born...
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Final Sermon Cheadle Synagogue- Shabbat Hagadol
Courage This Shabbat is known throughout the Jewish world as Shabbat Hagadol- The Great Shabbat. At a Brit Milah we bless the baby, Ze...
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Sermon Yeshurun Shul- Delivered 1st of March 2014
Mediocrity VS Excellence A number of years ago I applied for the BBC Apprentice show. I didn’t have a business plan and the idea of...
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Parashat #Pikudei- Master of the House
Master of the house This week is the final instalment of the Mishkan saga. We have heard and studied every detail of the House of God for...
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Holy Boldness
Jump forward to the last day of Chanukah. You’ve eaten enough doughnuts, lit the menorah, said Hallel for eight days and are feeling...
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Be that light even when its dark
As we leave shul on Motzei Simchas Torah we wish each other “a good winter.” With the clocks changing, winter is now upon us. Dovid...
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Maybe we are more like Efron than Avrohom!
We tend to judge our own actions favourably. Afterall, if others push you down or view you negatively, you might be your only advocate....
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Manchester Vigil #bringbackourboys
Manchester Vigil Sunday 22nd June 2014 #bringbackourboys Naftali ,Gilead , Eyal, Od lo avda Tikvateinu! For 2000 years we dreamt of a...
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Parashat #Shelach
Managing our own feelings We don’t always succeed in understanding our own feelings. At times we express them for all to see, sometimes...
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