BIO (2024)

BIO: Pesach Steinberg is a community Rabbi in Melbourne Australia and is married with five daughters and two sons-in-law. He is involved in the kashrut industry, is a prison chaplain, author & publisher, sits on industry boards for ethics in human research, has worked in Synagogue administration and has been the Rabbi of a Synagogue. He graduated from Mount Scopus College and Monash University and received semicha from HaRav Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg zt’l. Pesach is also the Australian Ambassador for Sar-El Israel, which places volunteers on IDF bases throughout Israel. (as at 1/1/24)

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Rosh Hashana speech 5780

Askara
Shabbat dinner
Shiurim
Lunches & fruit-veg
Ladies challah, cooking
Men's Haven: 
Make sure in newsletter
Next year: barmi-batmi, cheder, ladies program
Need your support
Acknowledge committee's & benji

Talk to young people
Rav Brodt was not a tzaddik
Ramban - Adam was perfect pre-sin
    No free choice, one derech
    Rashi sin vs his mistake
         (btw, RH history)
    Ramchal - no sins if we knew God
Social media
    Bad posts & job
Cancel culture
    Sarah Silverman
    Shane Gillis
    Justin Trudeau
    Ostracized - excommunicated
    We Jews don't believe in this
Shofar blowing (shai tachlifa)
    Vibrations, shakes
    Wake up call
    Everyday?
    Wake up call to a new year
    Kol nidrei for future
How?
Sefer Devarim
    Torah
    Tochecha, Nitzavim, Vayelech
    Nitzavim ends with Free choice but it is clearly the pre-sin choice, he wants adam&chava back
How to accomplish
    Aseret Yemei Teshuva
    Something for secular world
Change & Habituate: process
Ramchal & Ramban 
    For a while go from automatic to manual
    1 shabbat, light candles, mezuzah, say a bracha, buy a wash cup from golds, 
Book by Rabbi Yoel - my new guide
God wants you back
Haftarah - redemption (1st passuk)
May God bless us to bring us to redemption