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Not Bound by Victimhood

Parashat Re'eh - Gainesville In 1981, I was in my last year of college in Toronto and, out of the ...

MORAL BEAUTY

PARSHAT EKEIV - GAINESVILLE One of the interesting ways of reading the Bible is trying to figure out the meanings ...

Lifne Mshurat HaDin – Torah is So Much More

Parashat Vaetchanan - Gainesville Some years ago, a colleague of Stella’s did something totally human: she tripped at her front ...

Varuka Salt Will Never Be a Builder

Parashat Devarim - Gainesville Let’s go back to near the book of Numbers and play a little Columbo episode. Remember ...

Let Them Eat Brioche is Not a Negotiation

Parashat Mattot-Maseh 2025Rabbi Cy Stanway - Shir Shalom - Gainesville Florida Mattot: Let them Eat Brioche is not a NegotiationJuly ...

Balak – God Laughs

Rabbi Cy StanwayShir Shalom - GainesvilleJuly 11, 2025 There is an old saying that what makes God laugh is seeing ...

Parashat Chukat

No More Hiding... GAINESVILLE - JULY 4 2025 When I was at camp many years ago, one of the standard ...

Korach’s Foible

Dvar for June 25 Korach The Torah portion this week is one of the most confusing in the entire Torah.  Its ...

The Strangest Rosh Hashanna: Rosh Hashanna Morning 2020/5781

As you may know, I try to find Jewish content and Jewish meaning in everything.  There always seems to be ...

Beautiful Brokenness

Yom Kippur Morning 2023 Rabbi Cy Stanway I want to share a true story[1] with you:  In 1975, in Cologne, Germany, ...