Category: Weekly Insight

    Love the Convert Adapted from Rabbi Braun’s sermon in 5773 Living here in this area had made me particularly sensitive to passages in the Torah that detail our… Read more »

    Shema Adapted from Rabbi Braun’s sermon in 5773 About a month ago I was visiting a congregant in Centre State Hospital. He was in the cardiac critical care… Read more »

      Lessons for Redemption Adapted from Rabbi Braun’s sermon in 5771 Rav Abraham Yitzchak Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of Palestine at the time of the British Mandate,… Read more »

      Death of Rav Elyashiv and Distrust Amongst Jews (Moshe and 2½ Tribes) Adapted from Rabbi Braun’s sermon in 5772 This past Wednesday the Jewish people lost a… Read more »

      Pinchas, Eliyahu and Zealotry Adapted from Rabbi Braun’s sermon in 5771 In today’s world zealotry and fanaticism are dirty words. They do not conjure up images of… Read more »