Mixed Multitude
MLK Weekend • Shabbat evening kick-off Temple Beth Shalom, Austin Community Shabbat with Beth Israel and Shir Ami Maybe you’ve heard this...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Jan 14, 2018
- 5 min
Welcome Home
Delivered at Congregation Beth Israel of Austin As part of their "Welcoming the Stranger" MLK Weekend events (The guests referred to...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Jan 12, 2018
- 2 min
Mother Country
Shared during Shabbat evening services at Beth Israel - Austin during their "Welcoming the Stranger" MLK Weekend of events "Mother...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Nov 8, 2017
- 6 min
Problem with prophets
Temple Beth-El, San Antonio Social Action Shabbat November 3, 2017 “Will the Judge of the Earth not do justice?” When Abraham asks God...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Oct 2, 2017
- 7 min
St. John's 'Homecoming'
This morning I had the honor of addressing the Upper School chapel during a service organized by the students of the Jewish Affinity...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Sep 3, 2017
- 1 min
Out of the hurricane
Two of my articles posted today. Links below: In the Houston Chronicle's Sunday Belief section, I wrote a snapshot of faith community...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Jul 11, 2017
- 3 min
Everyone a peninsula
A few thoughts for the week, based on an unexpected connection between a book review in today's WSJ and an old Amos Oz essay relevant to...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Jul 2, 2017
- 2 min
Shalom Aleichem – Farewell blessing
Aspen Jewish Congregation • Farewell Shabbat Benediction It is fitting to close with Shalom Aleichem tonight because it is a song about...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Jun 9, 2017
- 4 min
Farewell Shabbat – Aspen
Aspen Jewish Congregation • Farewell Service Rabbi David Segal & Cantor Rollin Simmons Welcome There’s an old joke about how Jews at a...
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Rabbi David Segal
- May 12, 2017
- 6 min
It Belongs to You
Aspen Jewish Congregation Carbondale Farewell Shabbat at the Orchard I was asked this week what I feel are my biggest accomplishments...
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Rabbi David Segal
- May 4, 2017
- 3 min
A different kind of politics
Manaus Valley Project Sponsoring Assembly The Orchard Church, Carbondale, CO Good evening. I’m Rabbi David Segal of the Aspen Jewish...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Apr 27, 2017
- 3 min
Meat me in the middle
Aspen Jewish Congregation Parashat Tzav • 07 April 2017 Often when a bar or bat mitzvah student learns they've been assigned this Torah...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Mar 26, 2017
- 5 min
Where we are (going)
Rabbi David Segal Aspen Jewish Congregation 24 March 2017 | 27 Adar 5777 | Shabbat HaChodesh This evening marks the beginning of our...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Feb 17, 2017
- 5 min
Fearing Fear Itself
Rabbi David Segal Aspen Jewish Congregation Parshat Yitro • 17 February 2017 President Roosevelt warned us that “the only thing we have...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Jan 23, 2017
- 4 min
People of Hope, People who Plan
Rabbi David Segal Aspen Jewish Congregation January 20, 2017 • Parshat Shemot “She gave birth to a son, and she saw that he was good.”...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Jan 20, 2017
- 5 min
Inaugural Addresses: Readings for Shabbat
To bring some historical perspective to inauguration day, I shared excerpts from several presidential inauguration addresses throughout...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Dec 16, 2016
- 3 min
Swastikas in Aspen
Usually I plan sermons well in advance. But tonight I want to share with you an experience that unfolded this afternoon, which means it’s...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Dec 13, 2016
- 3 min
Jacob's Ladder: A Guided Meditation
Jacob left for Beersheba, and set out for Haran. He came upon a place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Nov 2, 2016
- 4 min
Fight or Flood
I don't want to fight anymore. Judaism has a lot to offer the world, so why does it always have to feel like a fight? A fight for...
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Rabbi David Segal
- Oct 12, 2016
- 8 min
Renewing the Civic Covenant
Yom Kippur Morning Aspen Jewish Congregation One night while he was running for reelection, the mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania went to a...
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