The Rabbi and I

Our 6th segment is just as easy to do as the first five, don’t say things that aren’t true to make friends and influence people! And don’t spread rumors and tales.

Vote for Rabbi Block with confidence!

Number 5 in the series “How To Be Jewish In 30 Seconds is about doing the right thing.

There are a lot of views concerning women. The Torah gives us the answer.

Being Jewish means hanging a mezuzah on your door posts. It doesn’t even take 30 seconds.

I am not 77 years young, I am not in my “golden years”, nor do I buy anti-aging products rather I am experiencing getting older.

Episode 3 in the series, recite the Shema. Being Jewish means doing something and not necessarily everything. #30secondJew

AI is becoming ubiquitous and we are enamored with it. Is AI the equivalent of human feelings? Perhaps we are the AI and AI really is human!

We all have free will, we can do whatever we want. Don’t you want your grandma to be proud of you? Sure you do, there are then some things you should do.

In episode 2 of our series the Sabbath meal is introduced as enough to be a good Jew. Being Jewish is not about fulfilling an endless series of rules. Being a Jew means doing something Jewish!

Time to review our marriage to our electronic devices. Perhaps our devices need a break from us!

You have free will. What makes you think that God will give you permission to lie, cheat, steal, or take advantage of others when He specifically said don’t lie, cheat, steal, or take advantage of others!

It’s not complicated. Being Jewish starts with a blessing. You can do more and you don’t need to do more.

You don’t need to follow the religion of your grandparents just because they said so. You can choose the religious practices that make sense to you. And if not now when?

Be careful not to be so concerned with constructing the sukkah that you forget why you are building a sukkah. The Rabbis drafted the construction plans for the sukkah, but God revealed to us why.

The time has come to decide. Courting voters has reach a fever pitch. The lies and deceptions of the candidates have reached a new high or is it a new low!

Every country on the planet has an agreed upon immigration policy. Let’s put aside political posturing from both the Democrats and the Republicans and create an agreed upon immigration policy. What is happening now is destructive not constructive.

Yom Kippur is about you and not about the people you have hurt. It is the time to do a personal inventory and correct your actions. Then and only then do you ask for forgiveness.

Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of a 10 day period of conducting a personal inventory. Have I let chance control my life or have I made thoughtful choices. Gambling has a place, but not when I have the opportunity to choose what to do.

Football gives us many great Jewish lessons and this year is no exception! With the new football season comes new plays. If we are going to survive the coming year we will need new plays. The old ones just don’t work any more.

Father Kelley & Rabbi Block share their experiences of combining a Jewish naming ceremony with a Roman Catholic baptism. Baptism and Jewish naming are not mutually exclusive.

What should I be afraid of this week? Every day the media has us in a frenzy. Don’t you remember acid rain, the hole in the ozone, no more birds, etc. it is never too late for us to panic!

Social Media is anything but! What was a great platform for sharing has become antisocial.

Judaism and Roman Catholicism are more in common than they are different. A wedding with a Catholic Priest and a Rabbi combine the spiritual and traditional elements of both faiths.

Whether in our personal lives, the military, or medicine just because it can be done doesn’t mean we should do it! Too much waste and pain are the result of doing something unnecessary just because we can do it.

Art takes feelings, emotions, and perceptions and makes them visible in the world we live in. Religion takes our feelings, emotions, and perceptions about the universe and expresses them in our actions.

You can never hide from your religion! Let’s not fool ourselves if our religion is valuable and helpful why would we not take it with us. If you need a vacation from your religion it is time to find another religion.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel: “One thing I know with certainty is the God exists and it is not me!” God as described in the Scriptures is just that, an individuals description of that which cannot be described. It is time to stop treating one description as the only description.

Public schools have failed to educate our children. Private schools are beyond the reach of most families. That just leaves home schooling.

The real battle is between Hume and Hobbes. Are people innately good or bad? Your view will determine your actions.

You can never be too careful. Evil crouches at the door. There are many ways to ward off bad luck and evil.

Judge people as good or bad by their actions, not by what they say!

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Fear of Success and fear of failure can immobilize us if we let it. It is human to be afraid, does the fear incapacitate you. Let’s focus on the results of our fear and not focus on the fear itself.

In this episode Rabbi Kushi, the unorthodox orthodox Rabbi, and Rabbi Block discuss what makes art Jewish. Can someone who is not Jewish create a work of art that we label as Jewish?

There is a place in Judaism for everyone. It’s about the little engine that should. Harford County Maryland Chabad Rebbe Kushi Schusterman joins in the discussion of having a place for all Jews.

We often try to run from our religion, but it goes with us. You can’t run away from yourself! Why do you think you can run from your religious practice?

The Talmud tells us when we are required to lie. Come and learn the teachings about when lying is forbidden and when it is required.

No news might be good news, but 24/7 of the same news is making us unstable and paranoid. See what watching the same news is doing to us.

No good has ever come from the state requiring all citizens to be the same religion. History has taught us that state run religion has a bad outcome for every.

Are there any any shortcuts to reach God? No, God is available directly to all. Any aids you need are okay as long as they are not a substitute for direct contact.

Many religions ask us to suspend intelligence and just accept what we are told. What’s going on! Judaism has a simple teaching “if you need to suspend intelligence then run, don’t walk the other way”. Faith should never require you to suspend intelligence.

Judaism Is a religion and a culture. Like a train it has many cars so that there is room on the train for every Jew regardless of level of observance or cultural identity. We keep chugging along because there are no police on the train throwing people off!

Being a Red Sox fan has taught me to live with perplexing. We are in a constant state of being perplexed. Let’s embrace being perplexed and stop embracing solutions that make life more difficult.

You can use the Bible to prove anything you want to prove and that doesn’t mean that what you are saying corresponds to reality. Let me know what you want to prove and I will give you the Biblical quotes you need!

Listen to when the “law of the pursuer” applies and you are required to take out the pursuer. You didn’t know that there situations when you would be required to take a life? Listen to when.

Let’s pattern our laws after the religions of all Americans and not just the religions of a select view. If want religions to be the basis of our laws it can be done.

No one should be denied the right to be joined together. Visit my web site Rabbionthego.com

When you coach you are the coach to all the members of the team and just those whose religion you share. If you choose to pray, show respect for every member of your team and include their beliefs.