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Morrison David Bial
Born in New York in 1917, Morrison David Bial studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, served as a chaplain at Mitchell Field during World War II, and was ordained from the Jewish Institute of Religion in 1945. Rabbi Bial spoke from pulpits in the United States as well as in Dublin, Glasgow, and London. He led a number of tours to Israel, and published thirteen books, including The Rabbi’s Bible: Torah and The Rabbi’s Bible: Prophets (began in 1966, co-authored with Solomon Simon), Liberal Judaism at Home: the Practices of Modern Reform Judaism (1971), and Your Jewish Child (1978). Rabbi Bial spent over thirty years serving Temple Sinai in Summit, New Jersey, from 1953 until he became Rabbi Emeritus in 1985. From 1985–1995, Rabbi Bial joined Temple Beth Shalom in Ocala, Florida, revitalizing its interfaith movement, and served as Rabbi Emeritus until his death in 2004.
Morning Baqashot | 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week | Congregation & Community | Davvening | Homes & Community Centers | Hoshana Rabba | 🌐 Human Rights Day (December 10th) | 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th) | Interfaith & Ecumenical collections of prayers | 🌐 International Workers' Day (May 1st) | Learning, Study, and School | 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th) | Pedagogical Essays on Jewish Prayer | Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers | Phonaesthetics | Pulpit & Ceremonial collections of prayers | Purim Qatan | Repenting, Resetting, and Reconciliation | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Second Temple Period | Se'udat Leil Shabbat | Musaf l'Shabbat | Shavuot | 🤦︎ Taḥanun (Nefilat Apayim) | 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) | 🇺🇸 United States of America | War | 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February) | Well-being, health, and caregiving | Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah | Yom Kippur
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Noson Sternhartz of Nemyriv | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon ben Yaakov Perlov of Karlin | Epictetus the Stoic | Albert Einstein
Ὑμνεῖν με δεῖ τὸν θεόν | “I Must Praise God,” excerpted from the Discourses of Epictetus by Rabbi Morrison David Bial
Contributed by Morrison David Bial | Epictetus the Stoic | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
A short discourse on the necessity for prayer by the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus. . . .
