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Every week, our Wilshire Boulevard Temple clergy share their Shabbat message. In about five minutes or less, they offer personal perspectives on a topic of their choice, such as Jewish holidays, the weekly Torah portion, liturgy, customs and traditions, and sometimes current events through the lens of Jewish learning and understanding. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard TempleWebsite: wbtla.orgYoutube: Wilshire Boulevard TempleInstagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

  1. 6 FEB

    A Sacred Symbol - Rabbi Leah Fein - February 6, 2026

    Imagine: You are an ancient Israelite, and all you have ever known - all your recent ancestors have ever known - is oppression. You witnessed the plagues and the sea splitting and you fled for your life into the wilderness. And now, three months later, you are gathered at the foot of Mt. Sinai together with your fellow Israelites.  Morning dawns, thunder and lightning begin, a dark cloud descends on the mountain, the shofar is sounded, and everyone collectively trembles. You see a stack of smoke rising from the mountain, which is on fire and violently shaking. The sounds of the shofar grow louder and louder, until...  Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    5 min

  2. 6 FEB

    It's Over - Rabbi Leah Lewis - Parashat Beshalach - January 30, 2026

    Ran Gvili’s funeral was a moment unique among all others, but the collective need to rise to the next chapter is a feeling familiar to the Jewish people. It is on full display in the Torah portion we read this week. At the core of Parashat Beshalach are two songs, sung not when Pharaoh first freed the people from Egypt, but after they crossed the sea and the waters closed in on the Egyptian armies that had been pursuing them. Finally, they were on the other side. Finally, after a long and tortuous nightmare, they were free, and that in that moment, their new-found freedom was all consuming.  Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    4 min

  3. 23 ENE

    We Are in the Thick of It - Cantor Lisa Peicott - Parshat Bo - January 23, 2026

    Well folks, we are in the thick of it. In just the last few weeks, we have witnessed the abuse of unchecked power against a group of outsiders, the rising up of a people against a heartless dictator, the crumbling of an authoritarian regime, and a people’s chance at true freedom. 2026 is off to a bang, right? Well, not quite. While this description could be the homepage of any news publication today, this is unfortunately a tale as old as time. It is biblical time, but it has a lot to offer all of us trying to make sense of and navigate the complex times in which we are living. Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    4 min

  4. 16 ENE

    Parashat Vaeira - Rabbi Hannah Elkin - January 16, 2026

    In our Torah portion this week, Parashat Vaeira, we see an important moment for Moses to speak the truth. God has told Moses that he will be the savior of the Jewish people, the prophet directly communicating God’s words to Pharaoh to let the Israelites go and bring them back to the land of Israel. But Moses hesitates to take on the task, and he tells God that he is unable and unprepared. Moses says that he cannot possibly communicate this message because he has a speech impediment, or literally “unprepared lips.” In response, God tells Moses to rely on his brother, Aaron, to do the talking for him. So now, God will communicate with Moses, Moses will communicate with Aaron, and Aaron will communicate to Pharaoh and the Israelites. Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    3 min

  5. 2 ENE

    Who Were Ephraim and Menasseh? - Rabbi Leah Fein - January 2, 2026

    For thousands of years, Jewish parents and parental-figures have been saying this exact same blessing. So who were Ephraim and Menasseh, that the Torah warrants blessing our children in their names each Shabbat eve?  We are living through what feels like an inflection point in the history of American Jewry. Antisemitism is sharply on the rise and the broader Jewish community is splintered, especially on Israel and Zionism. All of this raises big, existential questions: What are we supposed to do with this change that we are experiencing as Jews living in foreign lands? Where is it leading us? Where has it come from? In the Spring, Wilshire Boulevard Temple is hosting two major speakers who will share their own insights and help us to think through these questions and more: March 12-14, we will welcome Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, as our Scholar-in-Residence. Donniel’s latest book is “Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become?”On April 15, Sarah Hurwitz will be in conversation with Rabbi Nickerson about her new book, “As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us.” This speaker series is an opportunity for us to engage in high-level conversation, exploration and learning about this unique moment in American Jewish history, and our place within it. As you make your resolutions for 2026, I highly recommend adding Donniel and Sarah’s newest books to your reading lists.  Please visit wbtla.org for more information on this series. Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    4 min

  6. 05/12/2025

    Parashat Vayishlach. December 5, 2025. 15 Kislev 5786. Rabbi Leah Lewis

    Today is the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Kislev. On the fifteenth day of any month on the Hebrew calendar, there is a full moon in the sky. But when the full moon of Kislev arrives each year, it feels as if the light of the moon is wrestling with the darkness of the darkest season of the year. Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    5 min

  7. 29/08/2025

    Collective Responsibility - Rabbi Leah Lewis - August 29, 2025

    Taking responsibility to care for those who are vulnerable has always been core to Jewish tradition, but living this value has always been an imperfect endeavor. That is why this week’s Torah portion, Shoftim, which begins with instructions about setting up systems of justice, ends with a seemingly abstract law about how those in positions of responsibility should handle an unknown person who is found killed in the undeveloped land between towns. Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    3 min

  8. 01/08/2025

    Have I Done Enough? - Cantor Lisa Peicott

    At the conclusion of this Shabbat, the Jewish community will commemorate Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av. It’s a day steeped in mourning and reflection. Traditionally, it commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples—the first attributed to the ancient Israelites’ idol worship, immorality, and bloodshed; the second to Sinat Chinam, or baseless hatred. In each case, it was not divine vengeance that brought about devastation, but the maleficence of mere human beings. Jewish tradition is quite blunt on this point: man’s own moral failings unraveled the fabric of society and led to catastrophe. Each week, a member of the clergy offers their personal perspective on a topic of their choice, such as the week's Torah portion, a Jewish holiday, ritual, custom, or history. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Website: wbtla.org Youtube: Wilshire Boulevard Temple Instagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

    3 min
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Every week, our Wilshire Boulevard Temple clergy share their Shabbat message. In about five minutes or less, they offer personal perspectives on a topic of their choice, such as Jewish holidays, the weekly Torah portion, liturgy, customs and traditions, and sometimes current events through the lens of Jewish learning and understanding. Facebook: Wilshire Boulevard TempleWebsite: wbtla.orgYoutube: Wilshire Boulevard TempleInstagram: wilshireboulevardtemple

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