The Pulpit Shelf

A selection of divrei Torah and articles by Rabbi David Minkus...

• 5779's Shadows (Yom Kippur, 5780)
• Snickering at Ourselves (Yom Kippur, 5780)
• CRZ Needs You (Rosh Hashanah, 5780)
• The True and Enduring Meaning of the Torah (Rosh Hashanah, 5780)
• The Week after the Tragedy in Pittsburgh (November 2, 2018)
• The Grooves of God's Creations (Kol Nidre, 5779)
• A Taste of Redemptive Babka  (Rosh Hashanah I, 5779)
• Na'aseh ve'Nishma  (Rosh Hashanah II, 5779)
• Shanah Tovah 5779 (September 7, 2018)
• Not so Ordinary Voices (January 2018)
• Remembering How to Live  (Yizkor, Yom Kippur, 5778)
• The Difficult Texts We Live (Kol Nidre 5778)
• Two Rodfei Trips (Rosh Hashanah 5778)
• A View from the Nile to Charlottesville (Rosh Hashanah 5778)
• Counting Our Time Together (July 2017)
• Impurities and Sacrifices, Israelites and Israel (April 2017)
• Meditations on Dayenu (April 2017)
• Rabbi Minkus on Bomb Scare (February 2017)
• On Refugees and Immmigrants (January 2017)
• Our Story and Our Plot (Yom Kippur Yizkor 5777)
• The Path Toward Renewal (Kol Nidre 5777)
• You Don't Need to Believe to be Jewish (Rosh Hashanah 5777)
• What I Have Learned, What I Want to Define (Rosh Hashanah 5777)
• Korach:  Undoing Midrashic Damage (9 July 2016)
• The Danger of a Single Story (Rosh Hashanah 5776)
• Ordering from a Mitzvah Menu (Rosh Hashanah 5776)
• Teshuvah and Changing the Past (Kol Nidre 5776)
• Yizkor and our Yahrtzeit List (Yom Kippur 5776)
• Black Lives Matter and Vayishlach (6 December 2014)
• Installation Highlights (11 Elul 5774 ≡ 5-6 September 2014)
• An early message from Rabbi Minkus (30 May 2014)

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