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Daily Video Updates

March 23, 2020by shalommorris 1 Comment

Dear All, With so many of us stuck at home and isolated from one another I’ve decided to put together some videos for you from within London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue. […]

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Musings, Torah, Travels

Ashamnu – S&P Addition By Subtraction

September 19, 2019by shalommorris 2 Comments

Throughout the month of Elul and the High Holy Days we recite the selihot (apology) prayers. One of the most important elements of this service is the vidui, or confession. […]

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Torah

Jerusalem – The City of Sir Moses Montefiore

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A beloved Israeli children’s song honors the long and productive life of Sir Moses Montefiore. Released by Yehoram Gaon in 1969, the song imagines a conversation between Sir Moses, the renowned […]

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Travels

Bemidbar – Making Census of the S&P

July 1, 2019by shalommorris Leave a comment

ב  שְׂאוּ, אֶת-רֹאשׁ כָּל-עֲדַת בְּנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל, The rabbinic name for Sefer Bemidbar is the same as its English name, ‘Numbers.’ The rabbis called it Sefer Hapikudim, ‘The Book of Countings,’ as […]

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Academics, Musings, Torah, Travels

Naples, Pompeii and Amalfi – Two Millenia of Jewry

May 8, 2019by shalommorris 2 Comments

One of my more interesting heritage visits was to the city of Naples and its Western Sephardic community. Sephardic exiles moved there in 1492, however, when Spain took control in […]

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Travels

Holland Park Synagogue – London

March 3, 2019by shalommorris 6 Comments

The Spanish & Portuguese congregation of Holland Park, London built their beautiful synagogue in 1928. I had the pleasure of celebrating its 90th anniversary on 10 March 2019. Despite my […]

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Travels

Ki Tetze -King Henry VIII’s Yibum

August 23, 2018by shalommorris Leave a comment

This week’s Torah reading is central to one of the greatest controversies in the history of England, the Levirate marriage of King Henry VIII, and Sephardim helped to cast the […]

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Academics, Torah

Shofetim – Sephardic Burial Customs

August 16, 2018by shalommorris Leave a comment

One of the few practices that every Jew performs is the ritual washing of hands upon leaving a cemetery (Shulhan Arukh, YD 276:4). The rinsing is meant to spiritually cleanse […]

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Torah

Re’eh – Reform and the Western Sephardim

August 9, 2018by shalommorris Leave a comment

“Two Jews, three opinions” is nothing new to the Jewish community. However, a Biblical prohibition would seem to indicate that this isn’t a laughing matter. The verse states “Ye are […]

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Academics, Torah

‘EKEB – Bendigamos: The Soul of the S&P

August 2, 2018by shalommorris 4 Comments

There is only one Biblically mandated blessing and it appears in this week’s parashah. This singular obligation is to recite Birkat Hamazon, Grace after meals. The verse states: And thou […]

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Torah

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