Park Avenue Synagogue Podcast

Sermon - Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: The Next Right Thing – March 28, 2020

We all risk decision fatigue as the public health crisis forces us to we make one important choice after another with limited information. In “The Next Right Thing,” Rabbi Cosgrove urges us to take care of ourselves, so that we can make good decisions, and to be compassionate to others, knowing that they face the same demands.

Park Avenue Synagogue seeks to inspire, educate, and support our membership and listeners towards living passion-filled Jewish lives. Through spirited prayer, study, observance and acts of kindness we aspire to foster deep connections with each other, our Torah, our God, the people and State of Israel and our shared humanity. More information available at www.pasyn.org or follow us @parkavesyn or https://www.facebook.com/parkavenuesyn

Sermon - Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: Purim in The Time of Coronoavirus – March 9, 2020

What can Purim teach us in the time of coronavirus? Rabbi Cosgrove presents the story of Esther as a reminder that even when life feels like a lottery, we can all take agency and respond by moving the needle towards good – in our own lives and the lives of those around us.

Park Avenue Synagogue seeks to inspire, educate, and support our membership and listeners towards living passion-filled Jewish lives. Through spirited prayer, study, observance and acts of kindness we aspire to foster deep connections with each other, our Torah, our God, the people and State of Israel and our shared humanity. More information available at www.pasyn.org or follow us @parkavesyn or https://www.facebook.com/parkavenuesyn

Let There Be Disruption

What can synagogues learn from Blockbuster and Kodak? Using the countercultural havurot of the 1960s as a case study (as well as the building of the mishkan/tabernacle), Rabbi Cosgrove explores models of innovative disruption, inviting us to be open-minded in imagining the future of our community.

Park Avenue Synagogue seeks to inspire, educate, and support our membership and listeners towards living passion-filled Jewish lives. Through spirited prayer, study, observance and acts of kindness we aspire to foster deep connections with each other, our Torah, our God, the people and State of Israel and our shared humanity. More information available at www.pasyn.org or follow us @parkavesyn or https://www.facebook.com/parkavenuesyn

Making Sense of Our Moment

In his sermon "Making Sense of Our Moment," Rabbi Cosgrove looks sixty years into the past to find similarities to the present and suggests that the international community's persistent unwillingness to recognize the Jewish people's right to safety and self-determination is today's manifestation of our perennial enemy, Amalek.

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Standing at Sinai

In his sermon, “Standing at Sinai,” given at Temple Sinai in Los Angeles to honor his father at his “second Bar Mitzvah,” his 83rd birthday, Rabbi Cosgrove enacted the fifth commandment, honoring his father and mother by speaking of the influence their Judaism had on his own Jewish values and choice of career. He charged all parents and all synagogues to take and share responsibility for passing Jewish heritage on to the next generation.

Park Avenue Synagogue seeks to inspire, educate, and support our membership and listeners towards living passion-filled Jewish lives. Through spirited prayer, study, observance and acts of kindness we aspire to foster deep connections with each other, our Torah, our God, the people and State of Israel and our shared humanity. More information available at www.pasyn.org or follow us @parkavesyn or https://www.facebook.com/parkavenuesyn