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Off the Pulpit with Rabbi David Wolpe — 191 episodes

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Tzav - Weeping in the Evening

2

Toldot - The Crisis: Keeping your head, your heart and your balance.

3

Korach - Sinai

4

Shelach - Israel

5

Beha’alotcha - Torah

6

Nasso - God

7

Yizkor - Memory

8

B’midbar - The Truth About Human Nature

9

Bechukotai - Jews Aren't Bipolar

10

Acharei Mot - 75 and Going Strong

11

Tazria-Metzor - The Message in the Box

12

Tetzaveh - People Love Dead Jews

13

Yizkor - 8th Day of Pesach

14

Pesach - From Cyril to Sinai: Lessons of a Quarter Century

15

Vayikra - The Art of Losing

16

Vayakhel - The Tabernacle and Liberation

17

Pekudei – How Do You Measure A Life?

18

Ki Tisa - Principles and Popularity

19

Tetzaveh - Masks and Machiavelli: Two Purim Lessons

20

Mishpatim - When Feeling Good is Bad

21

Yitro - Chuppah

22

Beshalach - The Funeral March to Freedom

23

Shemot - The double legacy of MLK

24

Vayechi - The Seductions of the Scepter

25

Vayigash - What the White House Means

26

Vayeishev - The Meaning of Shabbat

27

Toldot - A Different Israel

28

Lech L’cha - God and the Election

29

Noach - Living for the Future World

30

Sukkot - The Fallen Sukkah

31

Chol Hamoed Sukkot - The Life and Death of Moshe Rabenu

32

Sukkot - Divine Lessons from the Lulav

33

Ha'azinu - A Story of Everyday Goodness

34

Yom Kippur 5783 - The Hand of God

35

Kol Nidre - What I Believe

36

Vayelech - Beginnings and Endings

37

Rosh Hashanah Live - Blessings in the Darkness

38

Rosh Hashanah - Believing in your life

39

Nitzavim - Three Words for the New Year

40

Ki Tavo - The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

41

Ki Teitzei - Is Everything Jewish???

42

Eikev - God, Pandemic, and Community

43

Va'etchanan - Calling an Audible

44

Devarim - Sorrow and Vision

45

Sh'lach - Overturning Roe v. Wade

46

Behaalotecha - The Problem with Families

47

Naso - I did it and I'm sorry.

48

Yizkor sermon | Rabbi David Wolpe

49

Acharei Mot - What Happened at Sinai?

50

Bechukotai - The Cost Of Distrust

51

Behar - Does God Belong in Your Business?

52

Kedoshim - Our Mothers and Ourselves

53

Acharei Mot - A Different Story of Israel

54

Pesach - Passover, Pandemics, and Possibilities

55

Maror and Charoset - Bittersweetness

56

Tzav - A Narrow Bridge

57

Vayikra - Deep Calls to Deep

58

Pekudei - Rewriting the Jewish Story

59

Vayakhel - Ukraine, Israel and Auto-Emancipation

60

Ki Tisa - Masks, Media, Children and Community

61

Terumah - Commodities and Gifts

62

Mishpatim - The Morality of the Olympics: 1936 and 2022

63

Yitro - What is the Point of the Ten Commandments?

64

Beshalach - A Poem Lovely as a Tree

65

Bo - The Magic of Gifts

66

Va'erah - Promises and Resolutions

67

Vayechi - L'Dor Vador

68

Vayeshev - Mirrors and Windows

69

Vayishlach - Face to Face

70

Toldot - Rise

71

Vayera - Loving the Ladder

72

Lech-Lecha - Mission Impossible

73

Noach - Drunk and Disorderly

74

Yizkor - The Empty Chair

75

Sukkot V - Why Do We Pray?

76

Sukkot I - Three Reasons for Joy

77

Ha'Azinu - The Poetry of Life

78

Yom Kippur - Regrets, I've Had a Few

79

Kol Nidre - Broken Tablets: How to Handle Our Regrets

80

Vayeilech - Our Story and Your Story

81

1st Day of Rosh Hashanah

82

Erev Rosh Hashanah - Raise Your Eyes

83

Nitzavim - Stop!

84

Ki Tavo - Building a Future

85

Ki Teitzei - Preparing Your Heart for the High Holy Days

86

Eikev - Modeling Relationships

87

Balak - Renewing an Ancient Blessing

88

Sh'lach - Jewish Learning, Jewish Future

89

Beha'alotcha - Memorial Day

90

Nasso - Different Kinds of Strength

91

Shavuot II - We Are All Passengers

92

Bamidbar - Counting Jews and Jews Who Count

93

Behar-Bechukotai - To Whom Do You Belong?

94

Emor - Pilgrimage

95

Achrei Mot-Kedoshim - And Now for Something Completely Different

96

Tazria-Metzora - When Not to Listen

97

Shmini - Rededicating the Temple

98

Pesach VII - Freedom, Fear and Faith

99

Pesach I – Trauma and Torah

100

Tzav - Big and Small

101

Vayikra - No Chametz at the Seder

102

Vayakhel-Pekudei - A Sermon In Song

103

Ki Tisa - Defenseless In a Vast World

104

Tetzaveh - Purim Doesn't End

105

Yitro - Why Do the Ten Commandments Matter?

106

Beshalach - What Is A Miracle?

107

Bo - God and the First Born

108

Vaera - Hearts and Masks

109

Shemot - America, Past, Present and Future

110

Vayigash - Spiritual Finances

111

Miketz - A Year of Miracles

112

Vayeshev - Different Kinds of Light

113

Vayishlach - Different Sorts of Dreams

114

Vayetzei - If You've Got Your Health...

115

Toldot - Isaac's Special Gift

116

Chayei Sara - We Must Do As Isaac Did

117

Vayera - Coming Down The Mountain

118

Lech-Lecha - The First Influencer

119

Noach - Noah and the Tower - A Message for 2020

120

Shmini Atseret - Answering the Sin of the Spies

121

Sukkot - Return To The Land

122

Sukkot – The PTSD Holiday

123

Yom Kippur - The Dreams Of Others

124

Kol Nidre - Soft And Strong: A Different Way To Be

125

Ha'Azinu - Lessons From One High Court To Another

126

Erev Rosh Hashanah - Number Our Days

127

1st Day of Rosh Hashanah - The Battlefront

128

Nitzavim-Vayeilech - Lockdown Lessons

129

Ki Tavo - Repeat Again

130

Ki Teitzei - Forgetfulness - Good And Bad

131

Shoftim - How Life Imitates Chess

132

Eikev - What We Learn From Aaron’s Death

133

Vaetchanan - Commanded to Love?

134

Devarim - The Plight of Moses and His People

135

Matot-Masei - Identity And Individuality: Are You Your Group?

136

Pinchas - What Should We Be Zealots For?

137

Chukat-Balak - July 4th Isn’t Black and White

138

Korach - Korach and the Pandemic – A Second Look

139

Sh'lach - Reactivity: The Spies' Sin and Ours

140

Torah Class from June 18, 2020

141

Torah Class from June 11, 2020

142

Torah Class from June 4, 2020

143

Beha'alotcha - How We Talk To One Another

144

Nasso - Lift Yourself And Others

145

Shavuot II -Sadness That Sinks, Sadness That Soars

146

Torah Class from May 28, 2020

147

Torah Class from May 21, 2020

148

Torah Class from May 14, 2020

149

Torah Class from May 7, 2020

150

Torah Class from April 30, 2020

151

Torah Class from April 23, 2020

152

Torah Class from April 2, 2020

153

Torah Class from March 26, 2020

154

Bamidbar - Are We in the Wilderness?

155

Behar-Bechukotai - Marking Graduations in a Pandemic

156

Emor - Imahot - Mothers

157

Achrei Mot-Kedoshim - The Valley Of The Shadow

158

Tazria-Metzora - The New Lashon Hara

159

Shmini - Coming Too Close

160

Yizkor - Losses

161

Pesach III – Interregnum

162

Pesach I – What Would My Father Say?

163

Tzav - A Passover Like No Other

164

Vayikra - The Meaning of Sacrifice

165

Torah Class from March 19, 2020

166

Ki Tisa - Idols And Information

167

Tetzaveh - Purim, Plague and Politics: A Report from AIPAC

168

Bamidbar - What If You Didn't Know

169

Bechukotai - Torah Advice for the Candidates

170

Emor - Who's A Hypocrite

171

Drash

172

Kedoshim - Holiness

173

Achrei Mot - Hurt and Healing

174

Study Source

175

Pesach VIII - I Will Not Die But Live

176

Passover - Redemptions Big and Small

177

Metzora - Pour Out Your Wrath

178

Study Source

179

Tazria - Passover, What’s The Next Question?

180

Shmini - How Judaism became Judaism

181

Drash

182

Tzav - Is This A Test

183

Drash - Rabbi David Wolpe

184

Vayakhel - Turning Knowledge into Wisdom

185

Drash

186

Ki Tisa - Why We Worship Idols

187

SHEMOT – BECOMING A PEOPLE

188

Bereshit – Renewal

189

Shmini Atzeret | Shmini Atzeret Rabbi Judah's Last Wishes

190

Sukkot / סוּכּוֹת 5776 | Koufax and the American Jewish Dream

191

First Day of Sukkot: A Holiday Human and Divine | Shevat - Adar I, 5776