Parashat Pinchas 5771 In a famous Monty Python sketch, a man goes to an expert to learn how to argue. But instead of arguing, the so-called expert simply disagrees with everything the man says. At one point the man exclaims, “You’re not arguing, you’re just contradicting me”… to which the expert replies, “no I’m not.” [...]
With so much going on, we cannot afford avoiding passionate conversation for fear of being impolite. We can conduct ourselves with mutual respect and compassion if we focus on those fundamental principles and ideals that we share. What do you care about? What do you really care about? What keeps you up at night? What [...]
Parashat Pinhas – 16 Tamuz 5768 / 19 July 2008 Difficult Choices A sermon in memory of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser (z”l) and Eldad Regev (z”l). In this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Pinhas, we read about a narrative wrought with moral ambiguity. Pinhas killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman because their shameless immorality [...]
Rabbi Salomon Gruenwald has served as the Associate Rabbi of Congregation HEA in Denver, CO since his ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2008. He also serves as a volunteer chaplain with the Denver Police Department. He and his spouse, Melanie Gruenwald, have three children.
