Live Archived Recording: 2020

September 25, 2020

Meaning and Melodies of Yom Kippur - A Concert with Noah Bar-Shain and Rabbi Gershon Albert

The song sheet that includes the words as well as brief commentaries can be found at Meaning and Melodies Pre-Yom Kippur Concert - Song sheet. 

September 16, 2020

We so wish that we could share words of Torah with you together in person this Rosh Hashanah. But in the absence of face-to-face Torah, we are honored to share two video recordings with you to help bring you into this unique Rosh Hashanah.

Rabbi Albert's sermon is titled: "The Year the World Became Small: A Rosh Hashanah Drasha for Unprecedented Times." 

We are also sharing a Family Conversation Starter from Rabbi Shua Brick titled: "What Kind of Day is Rosh Hashanah?"

September 13, 2020

Meaning and Melodies of Rosh Hashanah - Concert with Noah Bar-Shain and Rabbi Albert

Click here for the songsheet and sources.

September 12, 2020

First Night Selichot at Beth Jacob Congregation

September 9, 2020

Lights of Return - On the Mystical Teshuva of Rav Kook (Part 3 of 3)

September 3, 2020

Erev Shabbat Drasha: Parshat Ki Tavo – New Fruits and New Years

September 1, 2020

Lights of Return - On the Mystical Teshuva of Rav Kook (Part 2 of 3)

August 27, 2020

Erev Shabbat Drasha - Parshat Ki Teitze - Returning Lost People to Themselves

August 26, 2020

Lights of Return - On the Mystical Teshuva of Rav Kook: 

Rav Kook’s Torah, almost 90 years after his death, remains dazzling in its depth. His work Orot HaTeshuva (Lights of Return) is often considered an entry-point into his system of thought.

Join Rabbi Albert for a series of 30-minute classes to explore Rav Kook’s concept of Teshuva as a movement that encompasses not only our own journeys, but the entirety of the universe.

Part 1 of 3

August 20, 2020

Parshat Shoftim – Pure, Simple, Whole: Resolving to Find our Place in the Chaos

Also, here is a link for the sources if people would like to read them: 

DRASHA - Parshat Shoftim – Pure, Simple, Whole - Resolving to Find our Place in the Chaos.docx

August 13, 2020

Erev Shabbat Drasha - Parshat Re'eh: Forty Days of Renewal

August 6, 2020

Erev Shabbat Drasha - Parshat Eikev: A Neo-Chasidic Manifesto Revisited

July 30, 2020

Tisha B’av lecture with Professor Shawn Zelig Aster of Bar Ilan University:

How Did Jeremiah Defend the Jews?
A discussion of key points during the process of the destruction of the First Temple, and how Jeremiah's mission, articulated in chapter 1 of the book, to defend the Jews, is fulfilled at each point. The shiur will illustrate why the Shulkhan Arukh limits our Tish'a B'av learning of Navi (Books of the Prophets) to Jeremiah, as opposed to other prophets. 

Watch the recording at  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1boLsk-U7ZrPszsShBJGJSycYKPzfn6RS/view

July 27, 2020

Talmudic Tales of Destruction: Part Three of a Three-Part Series with Community Scholar Michal Kohane:

Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yochanan: What Comes After Destruction?

For the class material click here

July 23, 2020

Erev Shabbat Drasha for Parshat Devarim / Shabbat Chazon with young leader Ali Zak.

During the month of July, we are very excited that some of our talented BJC young adults will virtually "come home" and offer words of Torah for our Erev Shabbat Drasha.

July 19th, 2020 

Talmudic Tales of Destruction: Part Two of a Three-Part Series with Community Scholar Michal Kohane

The Romans and the Rabbis: “This Kingdom was Decreed by Heaven”

July 17, 2020

Erev Shabbat Drasha for Parshat Matot- Masei with special guest Ari Rosenthal

Dedicated in memory of (L'iluy Nishmat) Yonim Eliezer Meir ben Tania Chana V'Yehoshua

July 12, 2020

Talmudic Tales of Destruction: A Three-Part Series with Community Scholar Michal Kohane

Part 1: So The Temple is Gone, Who Cares? Introduction to the Three Weeks

July 6, 2020

Recipes for Prayer: Prayer as Love (for the other)

June 29, 2020

Recipes for Prayer: The Prayer of Generations - based on the book by Rav Dov Singer

June 22, 2020

Recipes for Prayer: Uniting as One based on the Book by Rav Dov Singer