Sermons
Sermons

Sermons
Watch, listen or read the sermons in our listing of recordings below. Alternatively, you may subscribe to the Beth Am Sermons Podcast.
Watch, listen or read the sermons in our listing of recordings below. Alternatively, you may subscribe to the Beth Am Sermons Podcast.
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After forty days of waiting, wondering what the future might hold, the scouts finally returned to the Israelites camped in the wilderness of Paran. Moses had sent twelve scouts to survey the land of Canaan, not too much further from their camp, to determine what lay ahead and whether or not it was, in fact, a “Promised Land.” At first, their report seemed to indicate a land of true promise and possibility: “We came to the land you sent us to; it does indeed flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit,” at which point they...
JUDY GOLDBERG
Okay -- so here I am. What ever possessed me to do this? Certainly my mother and father didn't make me do it -- now -- or then. It's my understanding that Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan who started the Reconstructionist Movement -- his daughter was the first bat mitzvah in the U.S. around 1935. But, growing up orthodox, girls weren't expected to or for that matter allowed to become a bat mitzvah. So what brought me to this moment? What has been my path? My motivation? I really don't know. I was quick to latch onto the controversial idea...
Today, in 2018, more than 7000 languages are spoken on this planet. Among them are Arabic and Hebrew -- two distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues, though both belong to the larger family of Semitic languages and have structural similarities. Several words – especially those related to essential elements of human life – are virtually identical in the two languages. Such words are primitive remnants of a time before the two split apart, perhaps 6,000 years ago. Words like “mother,” “father,” “sister,” “brother,” “daughter,” and “son”; words like “head” and “hand,” “blood” and “bone.” Words like “day,” “night,” “water,” “earth,” and “sky.”...
It was the wedding of the century; a fairy-tale wedding, and all the details were perfect. The day dawned bright and pleasantly warm; sunlight bathed the honey-colored stones of St. George’s Chapel, a 15th century Gothic masterpiece on the grounds of Windsor Castle. The ceremony began at noon. The groom wore the dress uniform of the Blues and Royals cavalry regiment; the bride was elegant in a boat-neck, long sleeve mermaid gown with a sweeping train and a white silk veil just over 16 feet long. 100,000 people thronged the narrow streets of Windsor to get a glimpse of the...