Rabbis deliver “words of Torah” each Shabbat, musing and commenting on the weekly Torah portion. Here are some of the texts I’ve shared with my community.
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5786 / Monday 22 September 2025 My friends, I want to begin this sacred day with a confession and a promise. The confession first: I will not speak to you today about Israel and Gaza. I will not touch upon the great challenges of...
Maidenhead Synagogue, Rosh Hashanah 5785, 3 October 2024 What more can be said about the Akedat Yitzhak, the binding of Isaac, a story so central to our tradition, and which I just read to you this Rosh Hashanah morning? This passage is one of the...
The Power of Resilience: Finding Harmony in Broken Strings Maidenhead Synagogue, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5785, 2 October 2024. I want to begin with a story, perhaps more urban myth than historical fact, but one brimming with truth. It’s a story about...