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		<title>Sermon &#8211; Rosh Hashanah 5772 The Hope of the Year by Rabbi Joe Blair</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosh Hashanah 5772 Rabbi Joe Blair The Hope of the Year Shalom, and Gut Yontif. I am pleased to be here with all of you tonight/today, gathered as a community to welcome the new year together. We have lived through &#8230; <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sermon &#8211; Yom Kippur 5772 by Rabbi Joe Blair</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yom Kippur 5772 October 7/8, 2011 Our Balancing Act Shabbat shalom and Gut yontif. Good things don’t just happen. I want to recognize that, and start my remarks by acknowledging all those persons who have helped us to celebrate this &#8230; <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practicing for Death; Renewing our hunger for life Yom Kippur 5772 7/8 October 2011 Beth El Congregation, Harrisonburg, VA Temple House of Israel, Staunton, VA Sue Levi Elwell Shabbat shalom and shana tova. This year, Yom Kippur arrives on Shabbat. &#8230; <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosh HaShana 5772 Temple House of Israel, Staunton, VA Temple Beth El, Harrisonburg, VA 29/30 September 2011 To everything there is a season And a time to every purpose under heaven Ecclesiastes 3:1 Sue Levi Elwell I am so very &#8230; <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beth El Congregation, Harrisonburg &#38; Temple House of Israel, Staunton Yom Kippur 5771 10 Tishrei 5771 / September 17-18 2010 Rabbi Joe Blair Gut yontiff, Chag sameach, Shana tovah, and Shabbat shalom! A personal story: Most of you probably already &#8230; <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yom Kippur 5771: &#8216;Jewish&#8217; Wisdom from Dr. Randy Pausch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["...summer was filled with a close encounter with both mortality and new life.  The closeness in time of these two events called my attention firmly and immediately to the theme of the holiday we are celebrating today; a day which juxtaposes the two poles of life and death, and demands a consideration of what it is that really matters."   <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memory &amp; Responsibility &#8211; Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell Rosh Hashanah 5771</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer Nurit and I traveled into the future and into the past. We visited places of dreams and nightmares. We walked along sun-drenched streets and delighted in watching cyclists and pedestrians and families with their children and dogs. And we trudged through the rain along paths that led to torture and death. <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution &#8216;Weekend&#8217; &#8211; Devar Torah on Religion &amp; Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Did that really happen?"  

It seems to me, in fact, that this is the question that is at the heart of the divide in approach between those who seek a literal reading of the Scriptural text , and those who interpret it. These positions in many instances have come to be framed in the light of science versus religion. 

....to dogmatically and stubbornly cling to one or the other – either one - is to minimize the wonder of G-d. For example, when science seeks to dismiss the marvelous, miraculous events of this world as ‘just’ normal, it does damage to all of us as human beings who are privileged to see G-d’s handiwork in the everyday miracles of the growth of a seed into a plant that then buds and flowers, or the birth of a child with a unique, individual personality. At the same time, for the religious to scoff and jeer at the scientific approach as godless and faithless is equally an affront and belittling of G-d, because it was G-d that created mankind with the intellect and the tool making ability, coupled with the urge to explore and understand that led to the scientific method and approach. 
 <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Facing Down Our Fears: Yom Kippur 5769 Sermon by Rabbi Joe Blair</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yom Kippur 5769 October 8-9, 2008 Rabbi Joe Blair   Facing Down our Fears   Gut Yontiff. As one of my colleagues, Rabbi Lewis Eron of Voorhees NJ, has recently described it, we have completed the first two legs of &#8230; <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Affirming the Dignity of All: An Interfaith Litany based on the Declaration of Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends, Today (December 10th, 2008) is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the U.N.’s Declaration on Human Rights.  A colleague and classmate from rabbinical school has produced the following litany which can be read in commemoration of that event.  I &#8230; <a href="http://thoi.org/blog/p=123">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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