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Rabbi Knopf’s Friday evening message for Parashat Lekh Lekha (November 11, 2016), discussing how we move forward as Jews in the wake of an unprecedented and disorienting election season. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/shtender/S097.mp3Podcast: Download
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Rabbi Knopf’s sermon for Yom Kippur. How a strange, ancient ritual offers powerful insights on the state of our world, our presidential election, and us. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/shtender/S096.mp3Podcast: Download
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Rabbi Knopf’s sermon for Kol Nidrei. Tikkun Olam is hard work. Rabbi Knopf offers thoughts on how to be most effective in our work of world repair, and also why we should bother. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/shtender/S095.mp3Podcast: Download
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Rabbi Knopf offers words of inspiration and prayer to Richmond’s community-wide interfaith Eid dinner, the Muslim celebration of the end of Ramadan. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/shtender/S094.mp3Podcast: Download
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Rabbi Knopf is joined by Rev. Ben Campbell, pastoral director of Richmond Hill and author of “Richmond’s Unhealed History“, for an interfaith examination of the true meaning and relevance of Tisha B’Av. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/Tisch/Tisch209.mp3Podcast: Download
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Rabbi Knopf’s teaching for Parshat Devarim (Aug. 12, 2016). Words are powerful, but we so often do not treat them as such. This is readily apparent in contemporary politics, but also, if we look, in our own lives. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/shtender/S093.mp3Podcast: Download
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Rabbi Knopf’s teaching for Parshat Pinhas (July 30, 2016). Many people think that leadership is about passion, energy, and decisive action, no matter the cost. The Torah warns us about such leaders, and insists that true leadership requires compassion, understanding, patience, and relationship. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/shtender/S092.mp3Podcast: Download
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Part Two of Rabbi Knopf’s teaching for Tikkun Leil Shavuot (June 11, 2016), on the spiritual and moral message of one of Judaism’s oldest and most ubiquitous prayers, the Priestly Blessing. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/Tisch/Tisch208.mp3Podcast: Download
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Part One of Rabbi Knopf’s teaching for Tikkun Leil Shavuot (June 11, 2016), on the spiritual and moral message of one of Judaism’s oldest and most ubiquitous prayers, the Priestly Blessing. https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/Tisch/Tisch207.mp3Podcast: Download
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Rabbi Knopf digs into the Slonimer Rebbe’s extraordinary essay on prayer, “Prayer is the Service of the Heart.” This month: if prayer is about pouring our hearts out to God, what do we do when we pray on Shabbat, where we don’t ask God for anything at all? https://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/jcastnetwork.org/storage/Tisch/Tisch206.mp3Podcast: Download
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