Rabbi David Baum

Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash Baruch Dayan HaEmet - Praised is the True Judge. I write to you today with an extremely heavy heart as...

From Descendant to Ancestor: The Power of Names© Yom Kippur Yizkor 5784/2023 Rabbi David Baum You may be surprised by the question I’m...

What Would Golda Do Today?© The 50th Anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and the Parallels to Today Rabbi David Baum Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre...

Rosh Hashanah Evening 5784/2023 Rabbi David Baum Photo by Danny Howe on Unsplash Click Here for an Audio Recording Twenty-three years...

Rosh Hashanah Rabbi David Baum Congregation Shaarei Kodesh 5784/2023 Click Here For An Audio Recording Click Box Below For Video I...

Rosh Hashanah 5784/2023 Rabbi David Baum Video Click Here for an Audio Recording This summer, one of our children, Harrison, was...

Photo by Hudson Hintze on Unsplash A man was lying in bed on Shabbat morning refusing to leave the room. Finally, his wife said to him,...

I have stood in this place many, many times. I do not know exactly how many mothers I have buried during my fourteen-year career as a...

Rachel Esther Baum, a trailblazing finance director and pillar of the Miami-Dade County and South Florida Jewish community, passed away...

Click Below For Recording of the Funeral As the summer comes to a close, I have to share that this has been the most difficult summer of...

Baruch Dayan HaEmet We are devastated to announce that our mother, Rachel Musman Baum, passed away this morning after a long illness....

My address to our congregation on May 31, 2023 Congregational meetings offer us all a chance to look back and reflect, not just as a community, but as individuals. Personally, I am looking at my role in this community as rabbi. I have served this congregation for the last 14 years, but one of the questions every rabbi has to answer is the following: do I want to be the sage on the stage, or the guide on the side. There’s a text that became a guiding piece of Torah for me - an

This Shabbat, we honored our Legacy donors (those who have pledged after-life gifts to our community) and chaverim/members who have...

On Monday evening, Jews will gather together to laugh and have fun together for the holiday of Purim, but there’s another reason to...

The legacy of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland will forever be with me. When my wife and I started...

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Shabbat Shirah - Beshalach 2023 HIAS/Refugee Shabbat Rabbi David Baum Let’s say you were a slave, and...

Parashat Vayigash 2022/5783 As we come to the close of 2022, I think it’s important to take a step back at how we have all changed, not...

Thanksgiving is a holiday that looks at joy from a Jewish perspective. In Judaism, Simcha, joy, is not just a feeling, but an act. Joy...

Rabbi David Baum Chayyei Sarah 2022/5783 Two Israelis, Chaim and Moshe, are sitting on the beach in Tel Aviv, reading. Chaim has two...

(Delivered on Chol HaMoed Sukkot 2022/5783) This time period is called Zman Simchatenu - the time of our happiness, but what makes us...