Jewish numbers are good news
The following article by Rabbi Raymond Apple originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post on 18 August, 2015. There’s always good as well as bad news. Recent decades have seen us so depressed by external...
View ArticleHow I learned to be a preacher
The following article by Rabbi Raymond Apple originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post on 4 September, 2016. After 45 years in the English-speaking Jewish pulpit, plus occasional forays into...
View ArticleBattle of Beer-Sheva commemoration 2016
Address by Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple AO RFD at the World War I Battle of Beer Sheva commemoration, Park of the Australian Soldier, Beer Sheva, Monday, 30 October, 2016. Every year when young Australians...
View ArticleShabbat Shirah – the Shabbat of Song
The following article by Rabbi Raymond Apple originally appeared in the Australian Jewish News, 10 February 2017. This Shabbat is Shabbat Shirah because the centerpiece of the Torah reading is Shirat...
View ArticleOn top of the world Down Under
The following article by Rabbi Raymond Apple originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post on 9 March, 2017. Bondi Beach, SydneyWhen my wife was a little girl in North London, she and her siblings used to...
View ArticleBattle of Beer-Sheva commemoration 2018
Address by Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple AO RFD at the World War I Battle of Beer Sheva commemoration, Park of the Australian Soldier, Beer Sheva, Wednesday, 31 October, 2018. Rabbi Raymond & Mrs Apple...
View ArticleBattle of Beer-Sheva commemoration 2019
Address by Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple AO RFD at the World War I Battle of Beer Sheva commemoration, Park of the Australian Soldier, Beer Sheva, Thursday, 31 October, 2019. A question: What is today – a...
View ArticleThousands of sermons
The following article by Rabbi Raymond Apple originally appeared on The Times of Israel blogs on 11 December, 2019. Rabbi Apple in his younger years at the pulpit of the Great Synagogue, SydneyModern...
View ArticleRetirement address to the Australian Jewish Historical Society
Address by Rabbi Raymond Apple to the Australian Jewish Historical Society on 27 February 2005 on the occasion of his retirement from the Great Synagogue (published in the Journal of the Australian...
View ArticleSeven weeks of counting
Between Pesach and Shavu’ot we count the days of the Omer because of a verse in Lev. 23 which commands us to keep a daily count from “the morrow of the day of rest”, which denotes the day following the...
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