Rabbi Lyon’s Blog
Without Passion
How can anyone in the 21st century, who has witnessed and benefited from extraordinary technology, and advances in science and medicine,...
Flex Your Spiritual Muscle
The short but powerful story in Numbers 12, reveals tension between Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Aaron and Miriam call out their brother on...
Fate and Freewill
(Excerpted from Rabbi Lyon’s sermon June 3, 2022) When summer heat in the Middle East fell on the rabbis-of-old, they studied lighter...
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