Wednesday, 1 October 2025

On Language - Its Uses and Abuses - Kol Nidrei

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For the sin which we have committed before You with an utterance of the lips. And for the sin which we have committed before You by impuri...

The Presence of Absence and the Absence of Presence - Yizkor 5786

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I want to talk about a Kabbalistic term – Reshimu . It means impression or trace. The term is used in Lurianic Kabbalah to refer to the pr...

Neilah - For This, Ships Are Built

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A colleague of mine, Rabbi Paul Arberman, recently shared a sentence he heard from his mother: “A ship in harbor,” said Mrs Arberman, “is sa...
Monday, 22 September 2025

A Rosh Hashanah Message - The Things that Happen Behind a Veil of Ignorance

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May Pundak and Dr Rula Hardal on Receiving the Innagural Vivian Silver Impact Award  It is, again, a difficult year for writing Rosh Hashana...

A Rosh Hashannah Message - On Jews and Windows

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On this eve of Rosh Hashanah, my mind has returned to a passage in the Talmud I last thought about when we revealed the magnificent Cyril Ko...
Sunday, 17 August 2025

Cancelling Artists - Questions Rabbis (This Rabbi) Get Asked

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Subject:  After a long time ...   Dear Jeremy   I wonder if you would mind sharing your thoughts on an internal dilemma I have. I am no long...
Friday, 8 August 2025

On the 80th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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I  reread  this  week the speech given by Terumi Tanaka at the ceremony to present the Nobel Peace Prize to the organisation he co-chairs, N...