May 26, 2023
Shabbat shalom everyone, Did any of you see the 1998 film ‘Godzilla’, with Matthew Broderick? There is one scene near the beginning, where he is told that he is standing in the sample he is supposed to examine. His reaction is, “I don’t see it! Where is it? I don’t...
May 24, 2023
My dearest sisters and brothers, This coming Sunday is when Talmidis, Karaites and Samaritans all celebrate Shavuot. So in the run-up to Shavuot, why have we been remembering the 7 parts of God’s Covenant over the last few weeks? When I was going through my...
Apr 19, 2023
Shalom everyone, This blog post is about the question, “Why did God create the Universe and the Earth”? Or put another way, “Why is there something as opposed to nothing, other than God?” My gut-feeling is that the answer to this question is ultimately known...
Apr 10, 2023
(message put out to the group Thurs 6th Apr 2023) Shalom everyone, This evening, we hold our Seders, when we remember the story of the Exodus. One of the purposes of retelling the story, is to enable us to feel as if we came out of Egypt ourselves. This aspect of the...
Apr 9, 2023
Shalom everyone, We all know that each religious festival has themes, and that there is a purpose to having those festival themes: that by celebrating these festivals together, God has the opportunity to shape and mould us into the kind of people that God intended us...
