Explore every episode of the podcast Beth Shalom Bloomington: A University Town Synagogue with Rabbi Noach Lawrence
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| Moses, meaning, and the non-pursuit of happiness | Yom Kippur 2026 • 5787 | 09 Oct 2026 | 00:21:01 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's Yom Kippur D’var Torah (sermon) for 2026 • 5787. | |||
| On the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and Rosh Hashanah, Part 2: Before Unetaneh Tokef | 09 Oct 2026 | 00:04:33 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's words at Rosh Hashanah Day 1 morning services. | |||
| On the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and Rosh Hashanah, Part 1: Before Mourner's Kaddish | 09 Oct 2026 | 00:01:25 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's words at Rosh Hashanah Day 1 evening services. | |||
| Talmudic wisdom for “a weird time to be Jewish” | Rosh Hashanah 2026 • 5787 | 09 Oct 2026 | 00:23:47 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's Rosh Hashanah D'var Torah (sermon) for 2026 • 5787. | |||
| Why "Only Joy" is Connected to Welcoming the Stranger - Parshat Re’eh | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:15:57 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's d'var Torah for 25 Av 5786 • August 7, 2026, concluding with a retrospective look back at our moments together in services this past winter, spring and summer engaging with the challenges of our time among Israelis and Palestinians and in American life. | |||
| Devotion, Dissent, and Dialogue: On Shaping a Multi-Faceted Relationship with Israel | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:40:24 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's d'var Torah (sermon) at Shabbat evening services, 4 Av 5786 • July 17, 2026, Parshat Devarim, Shabbat Chazon • Shabbat of the Vision [of Isaiah], the Shabbat preceding Tisha b’Av. | |||
| America at 250, and Jeremiah and Emma Lazarus' Wisdom - Shabbat of 4th of July Weekend | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:18:42 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's words at Shabbat evening services, July 3, 2026 • 19 Tammuz 5786. | |||
| The Iran War and Answering to a Higher Power - Parshat Sh’lach Lecha | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:34:51 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's d'var Torah (sermon) at Shabbat evening services, 28 Sivan 5786 • June 12, 2026. | |||
| Selective Memory and its Political Consequences - Parshat Be-Ha'alotecha | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:16:36 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's d'var Torah (sermon) at Shabbat evening services, June 5, 2026 • 21 Sivan 5786. | |||
| A Jewish response of solidarity with Muslims amid Islamophobia | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:13:02 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. The text in edited and expanded form can be found here: https://rabbinoach.substack.com/p/a-jewish-response-of-solidarity-with Rabbi Noach's words at Shabbat evening services, 14 Sivan 5786 • May 29, 2026. | |||
| Singing "And You Shall Love" — Clergy Intern Molly & Rabbi Noach | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:02:53 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Clergy Intern Molly Singer & Rabbi Noach Lawrence lead us in Debbie Friedman's English V'Ahavta. | |||
| Singing for empathy & safety for all sides: Idan Raichel Project's "Chayim P'shutim," "Simple Life" | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:07:08 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach leads us in expressing our longings for restored safety and empathy for each other through the Israeli band the Idan Raichel Project's 2013 song "Chayim P'shutim," a prayer in its own modern, healing way. The lyrics with Rabbi Noach's original translation from the Hebrew can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jARSTeYTWtH4yOpUYCCYoATq6YESPK-c/view?usp=sharing From our Shabbat evening service on 22 Av 5785 • August 15, 2025. | |||
| Why the Israeli Declaration of Independence's Twin Promises Are In Danger | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:45:26 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's d'var Torah (sermon) for the Shabbat before Israeli Memorial Day and Independence Day, Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzma'ut, 1 Iyar 5786 • April 17, 2026, | |||
| On the Michigan synagogue attack, followed by singing Mi Chamocha (song of crossing the Red Sea) | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:10:28 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. At Shabbat evening services for 25 Adar 5786 • March 13, 2026. | |||
| Pairing modern Hebrew poet Ra'hel's "Tiny Joys" & Psalm 96 sung for Shabbat | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:07:25 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. We shared in this dialogue between a modern, female voice in Israeli culture and this ancient psalm's uplift as part of Kabbalat Shabbat, our opening songs to "warm up" our gratitude, awe, and joy, the first section of Shabbat evening services. 23 Tammuz 5785 • July 18, 2025. | |||
| Singing “For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples” - HIAS Refugee Shabbat | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:05:21 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. From Refugee Shabbat, a global initiative of HIAS (formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), 5786 • 2026. Source text from Isaiah 56. | |||
| Moses' Most Underrated Leadership Trait - Parshat Shemot | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:11:59 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Rabbi Noach's d'var Torah (sermon) at Shabbat evening services, 21 Tevet 5786 • January 10, 2026. | |||
| Matching "Scarborough Fair" to "Oseh Shalom," Rabbi Noach & Clergy Intern Nava | 06 Sep 2026 | 00:03:07 | |
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. An original pairing by Rabbi Noach Lawrence sung by him and Clergy Intern Nava Teller, with Simon & Garfunkel's beloved vocal arrangement for the British folk song and the iconic guitar part written by British folk musician Martin Carthy and adapted by Paul Simon. We begin with "Be-Sefer Chayim," our yearning to be inscribed "in the Book of Life" in the new year, for the High Holy Days, then pair this melody with "Oseh Shalom," our prayer for peace "upon us, upon all the Jewish people, and upon all who dwell on earth," "aleinu, ve-al-kol Yisrael, ve-al-kol yoshvei teiveil." Rosh Hashanah 5786 • 2025 at Congregation Beth Shalom of Bloomington. | |||