by IHC | Aug 16, 2016 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
My first day of 10th grade English class the teacher could barely walk in the door. He carried in a cardboard file storage box and slowly laid it on the table at the front of the room. Grabbing the first yellow brick off the top he dropped it next to the box and...
by IHC | Aug 15, 2016 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
My grandmother had a beautiful house. Underneath the cream-white carpet the floors stood on a hollow wooden raised foundation that echoed the gentle sound of your footstep with a beautiful acoustic resonance, like the soles of your feet were sending sound waves...
by IHC | Jun 10, 2016 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
My Poppa, Sam Fox, always had a smile on his face. Those ridges of his face, marked over the years by his constant joyful expression. That was him, he was a man we all loved and looked up to. Took a job when he was still in grade school, sweeping up in a local...
by IHC | Apr 29, 2016 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
It’s always when I take my first bite of matzah that I want bread more than any other time during Passover. That moment when I look at the tan speckled cracker and think: “here we go.” Don’t get me wrong, I love the seder, I love the holiday, but I always have such...
by IHC | Apr 8, 2016 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
Tuesdays were perfect. I had no commitments at all. No classes, no lessons, no gigs, and so I knew that that was my chance. Each week I got up at 9, slipped into sandals and drove the hour and a half to the beach in Malibu where I could walk for miles without...
by IHC | Feb 19, 2016 | Rabbi Scott Fox, Sermons
I can’t imagine the clothing being very comfortable. Tough but rudimentary leather stitching and sizing made for you, but still somehow never really fits quite right. The old clothes, made accurate to the specifications of 18th century technology. Weapons that...
