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Straight From The Pulpit (And Heart) — 307 episodes

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Shabbat Pinchas 2026: Garlic on the Rhine

2

Shabbat Shelach 2026: Promised Lands

3

Shabbat Naso 2026: The Mystic Chords In My Soul

4

Shavuot Day 1: Ruth's Problem Is Our Blessing

5

Shabbat BaMidbar 2026: The Family We Love

6

Shabbat Emor 2026: Teach Your Children Well

7

Shabbat Shemini 2026: Unpolitically Responsible

8

Pesach Yizkor 2026: New Eyes, Old Hearts

9

Passover 2026 Day 1: Be The Teachers of People

10

Shabbat Vayikra 2026: Long Live the 70's

11

Saturday Ki Tissa 2026: Let's Dance?

12

Shabbat Mishpatim 2026: Who Will Be Your Jewish Valentine?

13

Valera 2026: A Witness In Eyes and Heart - Conversation with Gal Bukshpan, Nova Festival Survivor

14

Shabbat VaYigash 2025: 2 Small Stories, 2 Big Lessons

15

Shabbat Hannukah 2025: Who Protects The Jews?

16

Shabbat VaYetze 2025: The Wrong-ness of Here-ness

17

Shabbat Hayei Sarah 2025: Real Heroes. Real Humans

18

Shabbat Vaera 2025: Herzl's Ghost

19

Shemini Atzeret Yizkor 2025: The Remembered, The Studied and The Missed

20

Shabbat Hol HaMoed Sukkot 2025: The 20/20 on 80/20

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Solidarity Sunday October 5 2025: Rabbi Flanzraich at King Street Community Church

22

Sukkot Day 1 2025: Like Cures Like

23

Yom Kippur 2025: An Ocean of Truth

24

Neilah 2025: A Rope for Hope

25

Kol Nidre 2025 #3: What Day Is It?

26

Kol Nidre 2025 #2: Ibn Hadun's Dream

27

Kol Nidre 2025 #1: God in the Shul

28

Rosh HaShanah 2025: The Other Half

29

Shabbat Nitzavim 2025: Can You Be Married To The Same Person for 40 Years?

30

Shabbat Ki Tavo Board Installation 2025: How (we live) Explains Why (we are)

31

Shabbat Shoftim 2025: War and Crimes

32

Shabbat Re'eh 2025: A (Very) Kosher Sermon

33

Shabbat Nachamu 2025: Sadie Hawkins Day

34

Shabbat Mattot-Masa'ei 2025: Behold, A People

35

Shabbat Pinchas 2025: Promised Lands & Other Lessons

36

Shabbat Korach 2025: Jobs, Money, Blenders & You

37

Shabbat Shelach 2025: By Cunning Shall Thee Wage War

38

Shabbat Beha'alotecha 2025: The Enemies We Talk About

39

Shavuot 2025: Letters From Heaven

40

Shabbat Behar B'hukotai 2025: A Lesson From a Difficult Week

41

Shabbat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: The Evil Son

42

Shabbat Tazria Mitzora 2025: Israel @ 100 (and beyond!)

43

Shabbat VaYikra 2025: The Jewish Difference

44

Shabbat VaYakhel 2025: Heart or Mind?

45

Shabbat Ki Tissa 2025: Sooner or Later

46

Shabbat Mishpatim 2025: The Smallest Coffins Are The Heaviest

47

Shabbat Bo 2025: Same Person, Many Faces

48

Shabbat VaYehi 2024: And Kaddish For All

49

Shabbat VaYigash 2025: Make Your Idea Ignite

50

Sermon Shabbat Hanukkah-Miketz 2024: Which Story is THE Story?

51

Shabbat VaYeshev 2024: 2 Words for Hannunkah

52

Shabbat VaYetze 2024: Take Time To Think

53

Shabbat Toldot 2024: So, How Was Israel?

54

Shabbat Lech Lecha 2024: On Home and Homelands

55

Shabbat Bereshit 2024: Antisemitism's Strange Journey To Today

56

Shabbat Sukkot 2024: Zionism's Mission

57

Sukkot 2024 #2: Good Enough

58

Sukkot 2024 #1: The Strangest Holiday

59

Neilah Yom Kippur 5785/2024: Not Yet Yesterday, Not Yet Tomorrow

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Kol Nidre 5785/2024: The Lesson In Your Starbuck's Cup

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Kol Nidre 5785/2024 #2: Never Say It's Over

62

Yom Kippur 5785/2024: The Machines Are Coming, But All Is Not Lost

63

Rosh Hashanah 2024: The Lie Which Cannot Succeed

64

Shabbat Nitzavim-VaYelech 2024: Aim Higher, Fail Better

65

Shabbat Key Tavo 2024: Ideas, Ideologies and Beepers

66

Shabbat Re'ah 2024: Maslow's Triangle Turned Upside Down

67

Shabbat Ekev 2024: Your Better Conversation

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Shabbat Pinchas 2024: Moses's Great Fear

69

Shabbat Balak 2024: A Rush To Judgement

70

Shabbat Hukkat 2024: Is 80 the new 40?

71

Shabbat Korach 2024: And To Dust You Shall Return...

72

Shabbat Naso 2024: Difficult Questions, Harder Answers

73

Shabbat B'hukotai 2025: Truth and Messages

74

Shabbat B'hukotai 2024: Moses And His iPad

75

Shabbat Behar 2024: Guard Thy Tongue

76

Shabbat Emor Yom Ha'tzmaut 2024: A Sling, A Rock and a Lesson

77

Shabbat Kedoshim- Hashoah 2024: Frasier, Tao and a Song

78

Passover Yizkor 2024: Moral Imagination

79

Pesach Day 7 2024: The Miracles You Need Are Everywhere

80

Shabbat Hol HaMoed Pesach 2024: A Song of Hope

81

Pesach Day 1 2024: The Tale of Pavlik Morozov

82

Shabbat Metzora-Hagadol 2024: Beware of Leavened Bread

83

Shabbat Tazria 2024: Haredim, Pt. II

84

Shabbat Shemini 2024: Haredim, Pt. 1

85

Shabbat Tzav 2024: Where Is God

86

Shabbat VaYikra 2024: Questions

87

Shabbat Titzaveh 2024: What Kind of Man Will These Clothes Make?

88

Shabbat Yitro 2024: What To Worship

89

Shabbat B'shalach 2024: Miracle of Miracles

90

Shabbat Bo 2024: Dilemmas

91

Shabbat Shemot 2024: 3 Stories and a Headline

92

Shabbat VaYigash 2023: Messiah

93

Shabbat VaYishlach 2023: Mirror, Mirror

94

Shabbat Ha'ye Sara 2023: Decision Time

95

Shabbat Vayera 2023: Of People, Angels and Danger

96

Shabbat Bereshit: Existence

97

Shemini Atzaret Yizkor 2023: Yizkor With Israel

98

Shabbat Sukkot 2023: Moses, Buddha, Steve Jobs...and You?

99

Yom Kippur 2023: Happiness and Its Myths

100

Kol Nidre 2 2023: Bill Gates's Jewish Lesson

101

Kol Nidre 1 2023: The Water You Swim In

102

Shabbat Shuvah 2023: You Are So Invited to My Bar Mitzvah

103

Rosh Hashanah 5774/2023: What If?

104

Shabbat VaYelech 2023: 3 Rules

105

Shabbat Re'eh 2023: Lessons From The Middle

106

Shabbat Shelach 2023: A Wall, A Dot and You

107

Shabbat June 10 2023: Who Will You Listen To?

108

Shabbat Nasso 2023: Too Much Of A Good Thing

109

Shavuot Yizkor 2023: Of Writing and Weariness

110

Shabbat BaMidbar 2023: How Close Is Near?

111

Shabbat Behar Behukotai 2023: Let's Get Real

112

Shabbat Yom Ha'atzmaut 2023: To Be Or Not To Be

113

Shabbat Shemini 2023: Don't Laugh At Gwyneth

114

Pesach Yizkor 2023: Say My Name

115

Pesach Day 7 2023: Judaism's Best Message

116

Chol HaMoed Pesach 2023: Unleavened Living

117

Pesach Day 1 2023: Plagues and Lessons

118

Shabbat Tzav 2023: To The Streets

119

Shabbat Titzaveh 2023: You Are What You Are

120

Shabbat T'rumah 2023: Synagogues

121

Shabbat Bo 2023: The Explainer

122

Shabbat Vaera 2023: What Am I Doing?

123

Shabbat VaYigash 2022: Dream Away

124

Shabbat VaYeshev 2022: Don't Forget Dessert!

125

Shabbat VaYishlach 2022: What Timna Teaches Us

126

Shabbat VaYetze 2022: The Israel You May Not Know

127

Shabbat Conversation with Maj. Rami Sherman: To Entebbe and Back!

128

Shabbat Hol HaMoed Sukkot 2022: Are We There Yet?

129

Sermon for Shmini Atzaret Yizkor 2022: Unreconciled

130

Yom Kippur Neilah (finale) 5783/2022: What Are You Afraid Of?

131

Yom Kippur Yizkor 5783 - Lurching Inside

132

Rosh HaShanah Day 2 2022: A Message To The Lonely

133

Rosh Hashana Day 1 2022: Good Was Bad But Bad Is Good

134

Shabbat Nitzavim 2022: What New Year?

135

Shabbat Ki Taytze 2022: More Than The Eye Can See

136

Shabbat Shoftim 2022: The Future of Work

137

Shabbat Re'ah 2022: Life's Two Tragedies

138

Shabbat Ekev 2022: What We Talk About When We Talk About...

139

Shabbat Devarim 2022: The Day After The Messiah Comes

140

Shabbat Mattot-Ma'asei 2022: Lapid's Test

141

Shabbat Pinchas 2022: Elijah ain't who you think he is

142

Shabbat Korach 2022: The Book and The Sword (In Memory of David Weiss HaLivni y"h)

143

Shabbat Shelach 2022: Roe v. Wade

144

Shabbat Beha'alotecha 2022: Guard Thy Tongue

145

Shabbat Naso 2022: Behold, A People

146

Shabbat BaMidbar 2k22: A Trip or A Journey?

147

Shabbat Behar 2022: The Meaning of Einstein's Picture

148

Shabbat Kedoshim 2022: Our Secret

149

Shabbat Acharei Mot 2022: Why This Country Is Different From All The Others

150

Shabbat Tzav 2022: How Do You Count Time?

151

Shabbat VaYikra 2022: Simple Ingredients, Great Food

152

Shabbat Titzaveh 2022: The Greatest (Verse) Of All Time

153

Shabbat Peekuday 2022: Solomon Not David (or: the world you don't want Putin to build)

154

Shabbat VaYakhel 2022: Heavy Clouds and Putin

155

Shabbat Trumah 2022: Whoopi's Answer and Your Question

156

Shabbat Mishpatim 2022: Remember Me

157

Shabbat Yitro 2022: So You Think You're Free, Don't You?

158

Shabbat Beshalach 2022: Let The Small Be Mighty

159

Shabbat Vaera 2022: Ain't No Magic Here

160

Shabbat Vaera 2022: The Devil (and more than a few of us) Wears Prada

161

Shabbat VaYishlach 2021: Tik Tok and a Hannukah Story (apologies for the delay)

162

Shabbat Shemot 2021: A Month in Israel And Something To Say

163

Shabbat VaYishlach 2021: You Are Unfinished

164

Shabbat Toledot 2022: Why I Can't Read Old Letters

165

Shabbat Hayei Sara 2021: Tell Me Where It Hurts

166

Shabbat VaYera 2021: Where The Streets Have Names

167

Shabbat Lech Lecha 2021: The Long and Winding Road

168

Shabbat Noach 2021: A Book of Questions (Full Track)

169

Shabbat Ha'azinu 2021: The Lesson of the Rock

170

Yom Kippur 5782 - Who and What. Broken and Stronger.

171

Shabbat Nitzavim 2021: 9/11 and Jewish Memory

172

Rosh Hashana Day II 2021: Listen to Mike Tyson

173

Rosh HaShanah Day 1 2021: Be Not Silent

174

Shabbat Nitzavim 2021: Hold Tight. Let Go.

175

Shabbat Key Tavo 2021: Their Way/Our Way

176

Shabbat Key Taytzay 2021: Crying at the Movies

177

Shabbat Ekev 2021: Imagine

178

Shabbat Korach 2021: (Dis)Unity

179

Shabbat Shelach: Don't Lose Hope!

180

Shabbat BeHa'alotecha: What's It Gonna Be - Image or Character?

181

Shabbat Naso: God Has Something To Say To You

182

Shabbat BaMidbar: How To Talk About Israel When We Talk About Israel

183

Shavuot Day 1: Earth, Wind and Fire

184

Shavuot Yizkor 2021: Destination Unknown

185

Shabbat Behar-B'chukotai: The Lesson of Lessons

186

Shabbat Emor: Which Team Are You On?

187

Shabbat Acharei Mot Kedoshim: Truth to Power

188

Shabbat Tazria Metzora: What You Find In The Small

189

Pesach Yizkor: Wash, Rinse, Repeat

190

Pesach Day 1: Maxwell House IS Good To The Last Drop

191

Shabbat HaGadol: Why Puff Daddy Belongs At Your Seder

192

Shabbat VaYikra - Here We Go Again: Israeli Elections Round 4 (Gevalt)

193

Shabbat Vayakhel/Pekuday: What We Talk About When We Talk About The Royals

194

Shabbat Terumah: How Supreme Are Israel's Courts?

195

Shabbat Tetzaveh: Fill In The Blanks

196

Shabbat Terumah: What World We Live In

197

Shabbat Mishpatim: The Good Times Are Just Beginning

198

Shabbat Yitro: Religion's Real Lesson

199

Shabbat BiShelach: We Don't Need Rabbis (so said the rabbi:)

200

Shabbat Bo: Children with a Mission

201

Shabbat Vaera: 2 Boats and a Helicopter

202

Shabbat VaYechi: #VaccineNATION

203

Shabbat VaYigash: Elections! Hoping 4th Time Is A Charm

204

Shabbat Miketz 2020: It's Not About You

205

Becoming Jewish Conversation w/ Danielle Crittenden Frum On Conversion, Judaism, Marriage, And Life

206

Shabbat Chanukah 2020: 8 Days? Not True!

207

Shabbat VaYishlach 2020: 3 Stories, 1 Truth

208

Shabbat VaYetze 2020: What G-d Is Saying To You

209

Shabbat Toldot 2021: Great Jewish Athletes. Yes, Its True!

210

Shabbat Chayei Sarah 2020: Finding Leadership In A Cemetery/Cameo Dave Chappelle

211

Vayera 2020: It's Called Religion AND Politics For A Reason

212

Shabbat Noach October 24 - I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you

213

Shabbat Bereshit - October 17 2020 - Wristwatches, Suits, Ties, Business Class, Truth and Facts

214

Sukkot 2020: Get Used To It

215

Yizkor Shemini Atzeret 2020 - Question or Statement: Get Well Soon, Mr. President?

216

Yom Kippur 2020: Living With Failure, Growing With Failure

217

2 Sermons From Kol Nidre 2020: How We Got "Here" and Israeli Surprises

218

Shabbat Shuvah 2020: Yes, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

219

Rosh Hashanah Day II: Rabbi Flanzraich's Sermons

220

Rosh Hashanah 2020 Day I Sermon: All Alone & Something To Be

221

Shabbat Nitzavim - September 12 2020: No Low Hanging Fruit Here!

222

Shabbat Key Tavo 2020: Seth Rogen's American Pickle

223

Shabbat Key Taytze August 29, 2020: Left, Right, Centre - Whose To Blame?

224

Shabbat Shoftim August 22, 2020: Listen Jews

225

Shabbat Re'eh 2020 - Israel, UAE, Peace: What The Past Can Teach

226

Ekev 2020 - Dimmed Fire, Bright Words (in memory of R. Adin Steinsaltz)

227

Shabbat Key Tavo 2020: Why Remember Anything?

228

Shabbat Hukat Balak 2020: Racism? Anti-Semitism? The Difference

229

Shabbat Korach 2020: Better A Descendent or A Disciple?

230

Shabbat VaYishlach 2020: Annexation?

231

Shabbat Baha'lotecha 2020: What Outside Teaches About Inside

232

Shavuot 2020 Day I: Why Ice Cream Makes Everything Better

233

Yizkor Shavuot 2020: When 'And' Is No More

234

Shabbat BaMidbar 2020: Where Am I Going?

235

Shabbat Behar Behukotai 2020: How We Learn, How We Change

236

Shabbat Emor 2020: Not Just Hope But The Hope

237

Shabbat Kedoshim 2020 - Care or Cure?

238

Shabbat Tazria Mezorah 2020: David Bowie and Modern Love

239

Shabbat Shemini 2020: What Does This All Mean?

240

Pesach Yizkor 2020: The Walls Have Come Down

241

Pesach Day 7 2020: What Is Freedom's Real Price?

242

Shabbat Hol HaMoed 2020: Back In Toronto and in Quarantine. Again!

243

2nd Day Pesach 2020: Is It Better To Be An Adult Or A Child?

244

Shabbat Terumah 2020: Is It Most True to Be A Jew?

245

Shabbat Bo 2020: At The Crossroad!

246

Shabbat Va'era 2020: What Is There To Be Afraid of?

247

Shabbat Sh'mot 2020 - You Shall Not Hide

248

Rosh HaShanah Day 2 Discussion with Rabbis Flanzraich & Rothschild

249

Rosh HaShanah 2019 Day 1: We Need Herzl's Eyes

250

Shabbat Sukkot 2019: Things Parents Say

251

Yizkor Shemini Atzeret 2019: Memories and Lions

252

Kol Nidre 3: Why Hebrew?

253

Neilah 2019: "We Are Many"

254

Yom Kippur Yizkor 2019: There Are No Substitutes for Living

255

Kol Nidre 2019: #1 "Lost & Found" #2 "The Choosing People"

256

Shabbat Shoftim 2019: What Will You Choose To Be?

257

Shabbat Ekev 2019 - Israel: Jewish, Democratic or Both?

258

Behaalotecha 2019 - Elections Israeli Style!

259

Naso 2019: How Strong Are You?

260

Shavuot 2019 The Map Of Your Life

261

BaMidbar 2019 Wonderful? Painful? Family!

262

B'Hukotai: Ideas That Never Die

263

Dare You Speak Your Mind?

264

The Question Before Us: True or Right; Safety or Lives?

265

Pesach Yizkor 2019 - We Are Limited and Limitless

266

Pesach 2019 - Courage and Hope

267

What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Auschwitz

268

Shabbat B'Shalach 2k19 - Why The Mighty Fall

269

Shabbat Vayigash 2k18: The Journey Of Your Life

270

Shabbat Vayeshev 2018 - Choose Your Chanukah Miracle

271

Shabbat VaYishlach 2018 - A Report From Germany

272

Shabbat Chayei Sarah 2018: What Are The Jews To Do?

273

Shabbat VaYera - A Conversation with Imam Abdullah Antepli

274

SBS Lech Lecha 2018 - Is Religion Truth or Fact?

275

Neilah 2018 "The Gate That Waits For You"

276

Yom Kippur Yizkor 2018 Einstein's Dream

277

Kol Nidre 2018 #2 The Parent Who Loves You

278

Kol NIdre 2018 #1 - Seeing Feelingly

279

Rosh HaShanah Day 2 "Why Be Here?"

280

Rosh Hashanah Day 1 "A People Who Don't Walk A Straight Line"

281

Shabbat Shelach 2018 - 3 Simple Words: Fauda Season 2

282

Shabbat Korach 2018 Will Having Make Your Being?

283

Shabbat Beha'alotecha Where Is Heaven Found?

284

Naso 2018 Being A Good Neighbor

285

Shabbat Itanu 2018 Making Every Me A Part Of The We

286

Shabbat Kedoshim - How Do You Live In A Dangerous World?

287

Pesach Yizkor 2018 - Why Can't I Just Forget?

288

Shabbat Pesach 2018 - Guns or Souls?

289

VaYikra 2018 The Keys To Heaven Are On Earth

290

Yitro 2017 How Safe Is Safe?

291

Shabbat T'rumah - Poland, History, Memory And Truth

292

Ki Tissa 2017 What Makes Us Good?

293

Sermon Miketz Trump's Jerusalem

294

VaYishlach 2017 Look Them In The Eye!

295

Vayelech 2017 Taking Sex and Giving Love

296

Chayei Sarah - Do You See Or Feel?

297

SBS Lech Lecha 2017 - Your Money Or Your Life?

298

Sukkot 2017 - Tear Down That Wall!

299

Shemini Atzeret Yizkor 2017 - Eternal Memories

300

Shabbat Sukkot 2017 What Is It Like To Not Have A Home

301

Kol Nidre 2 - Gifts From Above

302

Kol Nidre 1 - Journeys

303

Yom Kippur 2017 The Broken & The Beautiful

304

Rosh HaShanah: Courage & Character

305

B'shalach 2017 Broken Glasses And Happy LIves

306

Baha'alotecha - Will You Live by Truth or Fact?

307

Shavuot Yizkor 2017 - The End of Egypt