This week, we spoke with Rabbi Josh Gischner, who loves Torah and Jewish learning! You can find out more about Rabbi Josh on Tiktok @RabbiJoshG and on Instagram @RabbiJoshG. You can also find some of his sermons at the Temple Shalom website.


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“What is hateful to you, do not do to others. The rest of it is commentary: you must go and study it.” - Hillel (Babylonian Talmid: Shabbat 31A)


“If you open up any Torah to the direct center, you will find ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’ Because love is the center of it all.” - Rabbi Jerry Davidson


“The Torah commands us to love our neighbor with the highest quality of the love we reserve for ourselves.” - Nechama Leibowitz


The Teshuva from the Conservative Movement on shame and LGBTQ+ rights in Judaism can be found here.

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