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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
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
21 min
In honor of our annual “Seminary Shabbat,” Rabbi Cosgrove tracks the history of the American Jewish experience through the seven chancellors of the Seminary and raises the question of what sits on the docket of the soon to be announced next chancellor.
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020
10 min
Rabbi Witkovsky discusses a strange phrase that appears three times in B'har. What does security in our land have to do with the way we treat one another? Listen to find out!
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May 11, 2020
May 11, 2020
18 min
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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May 7, 2020
May 7, 2020
13 min
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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May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020
18 min
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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Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020
10 min
Rabbi Witkovsky discusses the meaning of holiness and a story about Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev.
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Apr 29, 2020
Apr 29, 2020
1hr 6 min
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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Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020
19 min
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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Apr 24, 2020
Apr 24, 2020
16 min
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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Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020
16 min
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.
For more information about services and programs at Park Avenue Synagogue, visit our website at https://pasyn.org.