Rabbi Hirsch cries out about the need for moral teachers, moral training, and constant moral discipline to counteract the failure of America’s top leaders and educators to respond to October 7th. 43
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In a sermon to his congregation of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in NYC, Rabbi Hirsch offers impressions from his two long days of jury duty, remarking on the reality of human imperfections and the dependency of American institutions on the honor and integrity of those within them. 24
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Rabbi Hirsch leads a gathering in solidarity with Israel from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. 213
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Fifty years after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, Rabbi Ammi Hirsch reflects on his experience as a 14-year-old new Israeli immigrant and the Jewish state’s brilliant successes and unresolved disappointments over the intervening decades. 93
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Rabbi Hirsch looks at the atrocities of history through the lens of Jewish intellectual Stefan Zweig in his Rosh Hashanah sermon which reminds us that events are not inevitable, and that repentance, prayer and charity can avert the severe decree. 48
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Looking at the Torah portion that describes the awful plights that can result from acting unjustly, Rabbi Hirsch discusses the interdependence of humans and how individual failings and successes are actually collective. 63
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In a sermon to his congregation of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, Rabbi Hirsch puts rebuke and criticism of Israel on pause to make room for celebration of the miracle that is the Jewish state for the occasion of its 75th birthday 35
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In struggling to understand how his dental plan could deny his claim for anesthesia during a painful procedure, Rabbi Hirsch highlights the Jewish values of humility, gratitude, and the importance of caring for the suffering of others. 41
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Addressing the crisis in Israel in what he calls the most painful sermon of his career, Rabbi Hirsch describes the struggle as being not only for the proper balance of power but for a confidence in Israel as both a Jewish and democratic state 35
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Looking at descriptions of the Tabernacle in the Torah, Rabbi Hirsch examines the disconnect inherent in how the Torah focuses on the minute detail of the shelter’s construction rather than on its symbolism of morality and justice. 21
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