Rabbi Marc Rudolph’s Sermons

             Kashrut -- The Hidden Wisdom of the Torah                   The first ten chapters of Leviticus deal with the laws specific to the Sanctuary. The remainder of Leviticus deals…

The Four Freedoms Passover is the holiday of storytelling par-excellence.  We are told four times in the Torah that we must tell our children the story of Passover.  We have…

Making Mistakes Our parasha for this week, Vayikra, deals with the types of sacrifices that may be brought to the Tabernacle.  The first three sacrifices are the olah offering, the…

 What is our "Fair Share" ? This week in our Torah reading we come to the conclusion of the Book of Exodus and the conclusion of the account of the…

And oftentimes excusing of a faultDoth make the fault the worse by the excuse.~William Shakespeare  In this week's Parasha, Ki Tissa, the Israelites, under the guidance of Aaron, build a…

Chim-Chim-Cherubim Our Torah portion for this week is Terumah.  Moses is asked by G-d to instruct the people to bring gifts and contributions from which a place of worship, called…

Let Holiness Suffuse our Lives There are times in our lives when the presence of G-d is almost palpable – standing at the Grand Canyon at sunrise, witnessing the arrival…

The Torah tells us that when Moses protested that he could not go before Pharaoh because he could not speak, G-d answers:   ".......See, I place you in the role of…

Recognizing the Good Done to Us by Others This week we begin the Book of Exodus in our Torah reading.  The Book of Genesis left us last week at a…

Leaving the Comfort Zone   How do we build the courage to draw upon that light we discovered in December and move forward to a new life – spiritually, socially,…