Shabbat Inspiration   by Reb Jamie Hyams, Student Rabbi, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, June 21, 2019 Tonight, I want to think a bit about our Judeo-Christian religious landscape in this country.   Two weeks ago, we gathered to celebrate Shavuot, the...

Shabbat Inspiration - “Shavuot and God on the Horizontal Axis”     by Reb Jamie Hyams, Rabbinic Student, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, June 3, 2019   Tonight, I want to talk about God….  Not to go all “holy roller” on you but because so many of our interactions are...

Shabbat Inspiration -  Acharei Mot by Reb Jamie Hyams, Rabbinic Student, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, May 3, 2019 Shabbat shalom, It has been quite a couple of weeks…. My head is swirling with the sense that anti-Semitism is on the rise; the shooting at the Chabad in...

Letter from the Rabbi Emerita: by Rabbi Yocheved Mintz, April Kol Kiruv 2019  We Came to Pray “Ivdu et HaShem b’simcha”/serve G-d with joy is how we are taught to focus our prayers.  On Friday morning, March 8th, approximately 250 women came to the Western Wall to...

Shabbat Inspiration -  VaYekhel by Reb Jamie Hyams, Rabbinic Student, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, March 1, 2019 Shabbat shalom. I am taking a really interesting class this semester entitled “Modern Jewish Ideas, Beliefs, and Practices.”  The class explores Jewish...

Shabbat Inspiration -  Mishpatim by Reb Jamie Hyams, Rabbinic Student, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, February 1, 2019 Shabbat shalom, I recently read a great quote  - “Pray as if everything depended on God, Act as if everything depended on you.”   We are in a covenant, a...

Shabbat Inspiration -  B'shelach by Reb Jamie Hyams, Rabbinic Student, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, January 17, 2019 Shabbat shalom, As I stand up here tonight it is such a joy to see everyone as we begin a new phase of P’nai Tikvah’s journey.  Thank you to everyone who...

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Shabbat Inspiration -  V’yetzei by Reb Jamie Hyams, Rabbinic Intern, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, November 16, 2018 This week’s Torah portion is V’yetzei… the portion opens Jacob left Beer-sheba and set out for Haran.  He came upon a certain place and stopped there for...

Shabbat Inspiration - After Pittsburgh by Reb Jamie Hyams, Rabbinic Intern, Congregation P’nai Tikvah, November 1, 2018 It has been a long week and as Rabbi Mintz wrote in our communication to the community, last shabbat was not a shabbat of shalom, a shabbat of...