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Hear sermons, conversations, and select programs from Rabbi Cosgrove and the entire Park Avenue Synagogue clergy team to help round out your day. Don’t forget to subscribe to get a notification for our next episode. Listen to live recorded sessions and feel like you’re there at PAS! Find more information at www.pasyn.org or follow us @parkavenuesyn.
Episodes
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
How do we respond to the loss of occasions and opportunities during the pandemic? Rabbi Cosgrove advises us how to acknowledge each other’s sorrow and be present for one another as we gather our strength to step into an uncertain future.
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Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky finds a bit of wisdom from the parsha to help us address the religious needs of our current situation. He also talks with Cantor Rachel Brook, Dr. Matthew Holman, and their daughter Lila about the holidays we love and which ones we are still working on.
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Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Rabbi Cosgrove describes serving as clergy during the past two months and how the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way families experience the death of a loved one and the Jewish rituals of burial and mourning. As difficult as our moment may be, there remains holiness – kedushah – before death, in death, and after death.
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Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky discusses the meaning of holiness and a story about Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev.
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Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Torah commentator extraordinaire Avivah Zornberg, author of six books, with a Cambridge PhD and a grand rabbinical heritage, finds the human side of our greatest biblical figure. Moses's fundamental sense of himself as “not a man of words” comes to a poignant consummation in the long speeches he makes to the people before he dies. What does it mean to learn to speak?
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Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
A sermon dedicated in honor of the medical professionals and researchers serving on the front lines of our public health crisis: Rabbi Cosgrove recounts the life and legacy of Dr. Waldemar Haffkine – revolutionary, life-saving epidemiologist, Zionist, and philanthropist.
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Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky and Rabbi Philp discuss similarities between this week’s parsha and the world in which we live today: illness and isolation. What do we do when themes in the Torah echo modern experience?
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Accept Rabbi Cosgrove’s challenge from his Shabbat Hol Hamoed Pesach sermon: For each of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, call or email someone to whom you might not otherwise reach out. Through social solidarity, we can create a caring community and society as we face the wilderness ahead of us.
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Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of Rabbi Milton Steinberg’s passing, Rabbi Cosgrove draws on his predecessor’s writing to address the question of suffering. Rather than asking why there is suffering, we must seek to give our suffering meaning by responding to our tribulations with dignity, patience, benevolence and with care for others.
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Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Rabbi Witkovsky has a conversation with Rabbi Cosgrove about the difficulties of the book of Leviticus and the importance of Jewish objects and Jewish ritual.
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