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Rosh Hashanah Message from the Head of School 2023

Rosh Hashanah Message from the Head of School 2023

by Rabbi Grossman | Sep 14, 2023 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School

Same Time, Next Year We are familiar with the story of Jews and Egyptian oppression:  The suffering slaves flee their bondage and escape to the desert where God speaks to them and makes them a great nation. This story also appears in the Torah reading of Rosh...
Akiva High Holiday Message 2022

Akiva High Holiday Message 2022

by Rabbi Grossman | Sep 22, 2022 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School

Not by Punishment For our annual Father’s Day outing this June I asked my sons if I could take them to the Kingston Penitentiary.  They agreed, but only after my assurance that they would be returning with me to Montreal afterward, and that the prison has been...
Message from Rabbi Grossman – Long Live the Queen

Message from Rabbi Grossman – Long Live the Queen

by Rabbi Grossman | Sep 9, 2022 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School

In antiquity, the passing of years was numbered by the reign of the living monarch, thus we find in the Bible, “In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel (1 Kings 15:9),” or “In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia (Ezra 1:1).”  The death of a sovereign meant...
Elijah and our Children: No Trouble at All

Elijah and our Children: No Trouble at All

by Rabbi Grossman | Apr 11, 2022 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School

Any child who has been called a troublemaker can take comfort in being the victim of the same accusation that was hurled against Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu HaNavi).  Ahab, the wicked King of Israel, dubbed Elijah the “Troubler of Israel” for opposing his policies of...
Sanctuary and Sacrifice – Message from the Head of School

Sanctuary and Sacrifice – Message from the Head of School

by Rabbi Grossman | Mar 10, 2022 | Blog, Messages from the Head of School

The Torah contains an odd number of books perhaps in order that one book be in the middle and thus allow us to say: here is the center of God’s message to us.  That book is Leviticus, and its central message is Sanctuary and Sacrifice. Leviticus, which we begin to...
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