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Lech l’cha
Our cat Queenie loves nothing more than to be cradled in the arms of one of the family and to bury his head in the crook of our elbow or in
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Bereshit: what a beginning and how!
Words, words words – Devarim is full of them: eloquent, beautifully crafted words uttered by the man who protested to God over forty years before, as the burning bush burned and didn’t burn away, that he had no way with them, that he was an inarticulate stutterer. Now, back once more in Bereshit, where it all begins, God creates the world
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Kol Nidrei and Yom Kippur Observances
All the High Holy Day services were well attended this year on the 8th and 9th of October with many visitors from afar and our own community of Kehillat Kernow.
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Rosh HaShannah Shines Despite the Weather
It may have been raining on Erev Rosh HaShannah and on the day of 5780, but the sun certainly shone when a large number of people from within the Cornish
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World Cup VS Bar MItzvah
The Fiction, Film, Food Event at Malpas Village Hall on the afternoon of 22nd September proved that both secular and religious rites of passage can somehow be managed with the showing of Sixty-Six for members of Kehillat Kernow and the greater community from the Cornwall Faith Forum. Add some popcorn, scones, brownies, and some Rosh HaShannah goodies, it was a
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Ki-tetze
“Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondsman that is escaped from his master unto thee; he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place
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High Holy Days 5780/2019
Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur will be celebrated in Cornwall this year as follows.
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Re-eh
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel,
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Lev Returns to Kehillat Kernow
By popular demand, Lev Taylor, Reform Judaism’s student rabbi returned to take a service at Kehillat Kernow for Shabbat Va-ethannan on Saturday, 17th of August. Lev is one of four
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Va’ethannan
The names we give today to the five books of the Torah are revealing. In the beginning is Bereshit, which, with vibrant intensity balanced by serene elegance, launches the Torah,
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Mas’ei: map of the past, map of the future
Forty years of wandering through wilderness, mountains and desert are coming to an end and the future is about to arrive. What stories of hardship, inspiration, rebellion and faith we
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Newsletter for August 2019
It’s the latest Kol Kehillat Kernow for August added to the Newsletter page. If you are a Kehillat Kernow member or a registered website user, you may view the full
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Pinchas
Balak and Balaam are a right pair, two nasty pieces of work determined to curse and persecute an innocent people. Balaam is a right pair in himself, a two-sided coin,
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Weekly Commentary on Chukkat
Fair-weather believers seem to be the underlying narrative in the B’Midbar parshot, from the pusillanimous ten spies to the blasphemous insurrection of Korah, Dathan and Abiram and on to
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Sh’lach l’cha
Can you have too much of a good thing? Certainly, the Israelites had. After complaining about their limited diet. God sends them quails, so many that the people gather staggering
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Naso
Was perhaps Spike Milligan supposed to represent a Nazirite when he emerged from a hole in the desert, jumping up and down, half naked, three-quarters mad and one whole funny
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B’chukkotai
In one or two recent services, we have discussed the challenges of some of the laws appearing in the weekly readings when we examine them in the light of contemporary
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Emor
Kedoshim, the parsha before Emor, is reminiscent of Mishpatim, which comes shortly after the Israelites have left Egypt, in that it delivers a whole raft of instructions and laws, all
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Acharei Mot
Your mother, stepmother, sister, half-sister, aunt, granddaughter, sister-in-law and daughter-in-law are not relatives you should marry or have sexual relations with according to the instructions given through Moses to the
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Banner Turnout for Pesach 5779
The largest Seder in Kehillat Kernow history happened this year with 80 people attending the first night of Pesach at Trelssick Gardens in Feock, Truro.People came from near and afar