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1

How to Stop Worrying PLUS

2

Packing the Parachute for Someone Else

3

My Favorite F-Bomb/ Space Travel

4

Passover, Passover

5

Passover Seder with Depth

6

Passover 2.0

7

Current Events and Passover Prep

8

Purim 2026

9

Purim Revealed

10

Valentine's Day & Jewish Love

11

Super Bowl Sunday

12

New Year for Trees

13

Understanding the Addict/Hatred Exposed

14

Genocide, Antisemitism, & Positive Thinking

15

The Power of Thanks

16

Assisted Suicide and Judaism

17

Holy Words!

18

Bondi Beach Massacre

19

Chanukah 3.0

20

Chanukah 2.0

21

Ladders - Chanukah

22

Eight Jewish Principles to Build Self Love

23

Living With the Times

24

Standing Alone

25

The Louvre Heist

26

Hostage Lessons

27

Hostages! Sukkot!

28

Erika Kirk Forgives

29

Yom Kippur 1 thru 3

30

Rosh Hashanah Explained

31

Charlie Kirk, High Holidays, Forgiveness

32

Apples and Honey

33

Boundaries Make The World Turn

34

High Holiday Misconceptions

35

Politics in the Temple?!

36

Marriage High!

37

Sadness Transformed

38

Framing, Genocide Explained

39

What Does G-d Need Us For?

40

July Fourth/Anger Management

41

Israel Today, Israel Tomorrow

42

Random or Miracles?

43

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

44

Having a Center in Life

45

Shavuot - The Mount Sinai Experience

46

Memorial Day Musings/Holocaust Thoughts

47

Hot Balloons and Cremation

48

In Memory of My Father

49

Unity and Unity

50

Welcome Back after Passover, The 614th Commandment

51

Don't Pass-Over

52

Passover Seder Review

53

Queen Esther at her Best

54

Purim Extravaganza

55

Bibas Family Memorial

56

Trees and Food Expo

57

Big Jewish History on Long Island

58

Holocaust Lessons

59

Patience and Burdens

60

Wildfires and the Meaning of 12

61

Reframing Life

62

Chanukah and New Years

63

Menorah Light Thoughts

64

Chanukah Explained

65

Chanukah & Drones

66

Brain Rot Plus

67

Listening to Your Inner Thoughts

68

Thanksgiving Plus

69

Election Results

70

Q & A With The Rabbi

71

Pre-Election Talk/Toxic People

72

October 7th 1st Anniversary

73

Sukkot Explained

74

Post- Yom Kippur

75

Yom Kippur

76

Rosh Hashanah!?

77

Life After October 7

78

Rosh Hashanah Plus

79

A Variety of Issues

80

Remembering Hisrsh Goldberg-Polin

81

Good Stuff

82

Lost NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore

83

Sadness with Hope

84

Celebrating the Elimination of Evil?

85

Deep Dive on Bibi Temple

86

Life and More Life

87

Attempted Assassination of Trump

88

True Leadership 2024

89

Look at Life!

90

Marriage Incorporated

91

Values, Values, Values

92

Rage or Outrage

93

Are Jews a Religion or a Race?/ The Book GoyHood

94

33rd Day Counting the Omar

95

Don't Be A Clone - Individuality in Judaism

96

Students on Campus

97

Tough Talk on Tough Times

98

Passover Concludes

99

Passover in Difficult Times

100

Order in the Passover Seder

101

Helping WHPC/Passover Special

102

Mind Your Own Business

103

Purim Unauthorized

104

A Solar Eclipse, Gladness, and Joy

105

Not By Force

106

Honesty

107

Divorce!

108

Pain

109

Hocus Pocus

110

Women of Valor

111

International Holocaust Remembrance Day continued

112

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

113

Let My People Go

114

Where was G-d on October 7?

115

Weight Watching and Good Kids

116

Rabbi Perl, Antisemitism, and More

117

Dedicated to Sybele Trigoboff, OBM

118

Chanukah In the Window

119

Influence!

120

Thanksgiving, Chanukah!

121

Is it Ok to Play Lotto? / Antisemitism

122

More Light Than Darkness

123

The Tough Get Going!

124

Difficult Topics Part 2

125

Difficult Topics Part 1

126

Israel at War

127

Yom Kippur - Overcoming Anxiety

128

Rosh Hashanah Special

129

End of Year Thoughts

130

Thank You! Thank You!

131

Getting Goosebumps

132

Kosher Pig?!

133

Cancel Culture Cancelled

134

Rocks and Marriage

135

Coping with Grief

136

Living Life Intended!

137

Am I Limiting My Options to Find Love?

138

Making It Happen

139

The Titanic and the Titan Tragedy

140

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Replace the Rabbi?

141

Retiring! Rabbi's Confession

142

Never Alone!

143

Shavuot After Thoughts

144

Words That Count

145

World Laughter Day! Is This A Joke?

146

Revenge and Grudges

147

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

148

PPS - Post Passover Syndrome

149

When Passover Ends.

150

The Meaningful Seder

151

Passover Seder Expose

152

Passover Special

153

Forgive and Forget

154

Purim Express

155

G-d Incorporated

156

Where is G-d?

157

Is It Kosher To Be A Non-Believer?

158

Why Can't We See G-d?

159

Can G-d Create a Rock That He Cannot Lift?

160

Is G-d He, She, They, or It?

161

Martin Luther King Jr and Prince Harry

162

Cremation and Sensitivity for All Life

163

Are There Times When You Can Fib?

164

Love With Boundaries/Chanukah Drips

165

The Divine Image of Chanukah

166

Chanukah with Serenity

167

Serenity Pathways

168

Thanksgiving With A Head

169

Thanksgiving With A Spin

170

Burn Baby Burn

171

Why Are There Difficulties In Life?

172

Dirty Words

173

High Holiday Post-

174

Festival Finale

175

Jewish Holidays Explained

176

Making Yom Kippur More Meaningful

177

Rosh Hashanah Thoughts

178

Controlling Negative Thoughts

179

9/11 Lifetime Lessons and Insights

180

Rosh Hashanah Makeover

181

Pre-Rosh Hashanah Days of Introspection

182

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

183

Buying Happiness

184

Meaningful Sadness

185

Near Death Experiences/ The 10 Commandments

186

Why Marry? The Future is Awesome

187

Organ Donation and Animal Premonition

188

Animals and Judaism

189

Jewish Music and the Soul

190

Happiness, Graduations, Abortions

191

The Joke Is On The Rabbi

192

Holding A Grudge is a No No

193

From Sinai to Uvalde! A Lesson To Help

194

Take a Sabbatical

195

Never Too Late

196

Mother's Day and Jewish Thoughts on Abortion

197

Jewish Art, Jewish Birthdays, Jewish Talk

198

Post Passover Crumbs

199

Passover - Much Talk

200

The Slap Heard Around the World

201

Passover and Stuff

202

Why Keep Kosher?

203

Purim with Queen Esther

204

To Power or Empower is the Question

205

Judaism and Death

206

Do The Clothes Make The Man

207

The Power of 60

208

Being Famous and Wedding Insights

209

Be Kind on the Ramp of Life

210

Birthday For Trees

211

Serial Abuse & Suicide in Our Community

212

The Highway of Life

213

Dreams and Judaism

214

The Curse of Social Distancing

215

Marijuana and Judaism

216

Oil On Chanukah!!

217

Chanukah

218

Prepare for Three Eventualities

219

Angels Not Welcome

220

Don't Lose Your Head

221

Best Secret for Happy Relationships

222

Vaccination Pivot

223

Tattoos and Mindset

224

Jewish Double Talk

225

Who Needs Religion?

226

Secret of Happiness

227

What Are You Worth?

228

Yom Kippur

229

Rosh Hashanah Plus

230

Rosh Hashanah - No Fault

231

New Year Prepping

232

One Stone, Many Stones

233

The King Is In The Field

234

Don't Be Afraid

235

In Space with Jeff Bezos

236

The Sad Tisha B'Av

237

Framing Life's Perspectives

238

Don't Break Boundaries

239

Keeping Up With The Cohens

240

Why Louis Armstrong wore a Jewish Star of David Overcoming The Woke!!

241

Addressing the Muslim Community & How to Change the World

242

Unity in Trying Times

243

Peace of Mind Plus

244

Meaningful Days With Fish

245

Seeking Mountains

246

The Holiday of Shavuot

247

Life Is Like A Marriage

248

Respect and More Respect

249

Power of Good Words

250

Time Counts

251

The Missing Moses

252

Passover Relevance Today

253

Fish Love and Strategies For Misery

254

Purim Today

255

Rabbi Eulogy on COVID-19

256

Covid Isolation Illness & Mental Health

257

The Sun Will Shine Again

258

Lottery Winners and Senator Sanders' Mittens

259

Judging Others Favorably During Difficult Times

260

The Lessons of MLK Day in Our Times

261

Learning from a Righteous Gentile

262

Good Riddance to 2020 Really?

263

True Leaders Cry

264

Keeping it Bright

265

O'Chanukah!

266

The Answer to Violence in Community Change

267

An Attitude of Gratitude

268

Chanukah and Continuity

269

Cremation and Arranged Marriages

270

Kindness Does It

271

Staying the Course

272

Absentee Jewish Voting

273

Born On What Day?

274

Yom Kippur Explained

275

Days of Awe

276

The Breath of Life

277

The Algorithms for Life

278

Shofar... So Good

279

The New Month... WOW!

280

Learning From The Great

281

Marriage 101

282

Don't Be A Judge

283

Unity in our World

284

Keeping It Together

285

From Despair to Repair

286

Celebrating Differences

287

Remembering the Rebbe

288

Volcanoes of Strength

289

George Floyd: The Freedom to Breathe.

290

What Shavuot?

291

Is 2020 A Lost Year?

292

How To Communicate

293

Mother's Day Exposé

294

Pandemic Thoughts Part 2

295

Take My Mask - Please!

296

Crossing The Sea

297

Pandemic Passover

298

Should I Make A Seder?

299

The Seder Under the Virus

300

Jewish Birthdays, Passover, and Elijah

301

Corona Talk

302

Wasting Precious Time

303

My Jewish Birthday/Coronavirus Talk

304

Please, Talk Nice

305

Mental Control

306

Mental Health and Tree

307

Lessons from a Dog

308

The Burning Bush

309

Staying in the Royal Family

310

My New Year at Stadiums

311

Chanukah Never Ends

312

Chanukah Special

313

Chanukah At Its' Best

314

Don't Fit into the Box Too Soon

315

Chanukah Countdown

316

Breaking the Mold

317

Doing Time

318

Bias Positivity

319

Is it Okay to Curse?

320

Pittsburgh - 1 Year Later

321

Sukkos Plugged

322

We Got You Covered - Sukkos Unplugged

323

Yom Kippur Unplugged

324

Thoughts for a Meaningful High Holiday

325

Rosh Hashanah on the Brain

326

Think Good and Mental Illness

327

Can We Be Non-Judgmental?

328

Why Frankel Over Freud?

329

The Secret of Six and the Goodbye

330

Thou Shalt Not Covet

331

Does America Need a Day of Reflection?

332

Forgotten Baby Syndrome

333

POW - Power of Women

334

Going to the Moon in Jewish Thought

335

Mental Illness is a Jewish Issue

336

My Rebbe & Leadership: 25 Years Later

337

My Rebbe

338

Be Civil!

339

Did You Marry for Beauty or Money?

340

Climbing Mountains

341

No Dirty Words Please

342

The Second Chance of Life

343

No Judgement on Mother's Day

344

Anti-Semitism and Domestic Violence

345

Anti-Semitism

346

Passover Galore

347

The Moon

348

My Walls

349

Purim and Happiness

350

The College Scandal and the Power of Women

351

Facing an Insecure World

352

iMatter v. Technology

353

Organ Donations Allowed?

354

Lottery... why we didn’t win!

355

Making Happiness S(h)tick

356

Life After the Super Bowl

357

Wet Clothes Have Meaning

358

Happy New Year Trees

359

Holy Foolishness!!

360

Mind Control

361

Why Did Moses Stutter?

362

The Shema - The Iconic Prayer

363

Chanukah Has Gone to His Head!

364

Chanukah after Pittsburgh

365

The Observance of Kislev

366

Prison in Judaism

367

Kathleen Rice

368

Praying for a Child

369

Bigotry in Two

370

High Holiday Blues

371

Sukkot

372

Yom Kippur

373

Rosh Hashanah with a Broken Heart

374

Ameer Benno candidate for Congress in NY's 4th District

375

Senator McCain Remembered, Death and Post-Mortem

376

Aretha, Respect, and How to Be a Man that Women Respect

377

Reading Spouses Emails....Plus

378

Joshua Bell in DC

379

Amazon's Wealth Plus

380

Vision with Both Eyes.

381

Consolations

382

Broken Walls, Broken Tablets

383

Temple of the Mind.

384

Self Sacrifice for Others

385

Charles Krauthammer - Life and Death

386

Suicide and Kate Spade

387

Offensive Tweets, The Circle of Life

388

Making Music.

389

"Jerusalem Revealed."

390

“Silence is golden”

391

Are Human Rights a Divine Endowment?

392

Women and Men are Equal?

393

Does the Holocaust Still Matter?

394

Life After Passover

395

Passover Stuff

396

Haste Is Not Always Waste

397

If You Won the Lottery

398

Gun Control and Purim

399

Parkland - The Missing Link

400

Stop Saying it is Broken

401

Prophecy in Our Time

402

Double Dipping and Jerry Seinfeld

403

New Years Resolutions

404

Violating Borders and Boundaries

405

Chanukah Live! Part 2

406

Chanukah - BIG TIME!

407

Modesty in the Workplace

408

Rolling the Stone

409

Jewish Marriage Part 2

410

Jewish Marriage Part 1

411

The Role of the Rabbi

412

You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do

413

Hit the Road Jack

414

Is There Life After Yom Kippur?

415

The Joys of Yom Kippur

416

Why Apples and Honey?

417

Hurricanes and Rosh Hashanah Prayers

418

Destroying Statues and Preparing for the New Year

419

The Meaning of the Solar Eclipse

420

Life is a Wedding

421

Foul Language and Marriage

422

Tisha B'Av - The Saddest Day on the Jewish Calendar

423

Raiders of the Lost Ark

424

Defying The Odds

425

Rabbi at the End of His Rope

426

The Rebbe

427

Staying Mentally Healthy

428

Noah and the Mikveh

429

Born an Original - Don't Become a Copy

430

Shavuot & Memorial Day Thoughts

431

My Jerusalem at 50

432

Lag B'Omer - The Fire of the Soul

433

The Jewish Spin on Fidget Spinners

434

The Baseball of Life

435

The Holocaust in Jewish Law

436

The Lost Afikomen (Part 2)

437

The Lost Afikomen (Part 1)

438

The Magic is in Your Hands

439

Passover with a Seder

440

The Morning After

441

Queen Esther Finds her Voice

442

Responding to Hatred with a Purim Twist

443

Is There Life on Other Planets

444

Mother Saves Child's Life

445

Life After the Super Bowl

446

Thank You G-d for Making Me a Woman

447

Do Jews Believe in Hell?

448

Trump and the Heroin Epidemic

449

Miracle on the Hudson

450

Books with Souls

451

The Role of Jewish Study in Jewish Life

452

The Chanukah Light of Peace

453

Building Bridges in the Spirit of Chanukah

454

Overcoming Challenges with Strength and Respect

455

Staying Connected

456

Why So Many Marriages Fail

457

The Election of Donald J. Trump

458

Surviving the Elections - A Rabbi's View