Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Nov 23, 2009, 3:47 pm
One day in late November a few years ago I ran into a congregant in the hallway of my Temple. She wished me a Happy Thanksgiving. Then she said: “Oh wait a minute. I didn’t mean to offend you....
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Nov 16, 2009, 10:08 am
This past weekend a new movie came out, 2012, in which human civilization will comes to an end on December 21st, the winter solstice, in the year 2012. The film is based on an interpretation of the ...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Nov 2, 2009, 11:52 am
Florence Foster Jenkins was an operatic singer who performed in New York City for decades, singing her last show at Carnegie Hall in 1944. Mrs. Jenkins portrayed herself as a legitimate opera singer ...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Oct 26, 2009, 11:32 am
The current religious/secular divide in the State of Israel in part came about as a result of secular Jews ignoring their religious past. The Jews who came to Palestine in the late 19th Century were ...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Oct 20, 2009, 11:11 am
With Fall upon us, my fishing season is nearing its end as the temperature continues to drop. On a recent fishing trip in October, I felt the chill of the water on my hands and the brisk air in my l...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Oct 7, 2009, 9:17 am
The day after Yom Kippur, I received a phone call from one of my congregants who invited me to the Dorothy Day Hospitality House, the soup kitchen in Danbury, CT. On Yom Kippur, one of my sermons wa...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Sep 21, 2009, 1:39 pm
Every year on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, Jews travel to a lake, stream or the ocean and cast into the water. It is not a worm or fishing fly that we send into the stream; instead we cast our...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Sep 8, 2009, 7:28 am
This past summer, I played a fair amount of golf. I am the first to acknowledge that I am not very good at the game. I even had to swallow my pride this year and admit that my younger brother is a b...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Aug 30, 2009, 7:11 am
Abraham was the first Jew, living about 3700 years ago. The Bible tells us that when Abraham was 99 years old, God instructed him to circumcise himself, his 13-year-old son Ishmael and all of the men...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Aug 24, 2009, 7:12 am
Reeling in a beautiful rainbow or brown trout can be a metaphor for dealing with problems in our lives. We face all sorts of issues each day, from work, from home and even inside of ourselves. Some...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Aug 17, 2009, 8:30 am

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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Aug 10, 2009, 7:53 am
In July, my wife and I spent a week in Paris. We had an amazing trip, visiting the Eiffel Tower, the Arc De Triomphe, Jardin des Tuileries, The Lourvre, The Musee D’Orsay, Versailles and walking th...
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Rabbi Eric E. posted an article on The Fly Fishing Rabbi - Jul 6, 2009, 8:56 am
This week, I received a report from Howie in Jerusalem, describing his fishing trip to Dag-Bakfar (A Fish in the Village) fishing park located in the north of Israel. Thank you, Howie for this inform...
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