Looking for a dynamic captivating speaker for your next event, workshop or Shabbaton?
Rabbi ‘Lazer’ Gurkow, with over ten years of extensive public speaking experience can help make it an unqualified success. Whether you need a full-day presentation, a captivating keynote speech or an informal half-day retreat with your community, you'll find a variety of compelling, timely topics to meet your requirements.
Here is a list of presentation topics Rabbi Gurkow has delivered in recent months:
Relationships
Just Who is the Better half? Harmony and Respect in a Loving Relationship
When One Plus One Equals One: The power of a Loving Relationship
Falling in Love or growing to Love: Love, Like Wine, Improves with Age
It's been Two Thousand Years: Can We Still be in Love?
Having Sex or Making Love: The intimate Union of Body and Soul
Torah Responses to Social Dilemmas
Tolerating Tolerance Does a Torah of Absolute Values Encourage Tolerance?
A Jewish Right to A Jewish Land A Country of Divine Promise
Land for Peace and Prisoner Exchange Perspectives of Jewish Law
Exploring the Theme of our Generation If it Feels Good – Do it
DNA and Torah Law: Can Scientific Fact Equal Biblical Truth?
Perspectives
Searching for Me and Finding G-d The Contribution of Chassidus to Jewish Life
The Kabbala of Jewish Meditation Where the Mundane Meets the G-dly
Seeking An Anchor In A World Of Shifting Values Finding the G-d In Good
The Soul's Silent Voice In the Drowning Din of Life
Afterlife & Reincarnation
So What Really Happens on the Other Side? The Afterlife: A Torah perspective
What Lies Ahead? A Dead End or A New Beginning?
Have I Been Here Before? Reincarnation: A Torah perspective
Noah and Moses One and the Same? Reincarnation in Torah Lore
Prayer
Prayer: Landmarks In The Journey Of Life
Prayer Across the Generations: Historical Overview of the Development of Prayer
Minyastics in Prayer The Value of Private Vs. Congregational prayer
A Voice from the Heart Communicating with G-d through Prayer
Crossing the Gender Barrier Men and Women in Prayer
The Oral Tradition
How Many Torahs Are There Anyway? An Argument for the Oral Tradition
Divine Inspiration or Rabbinic Innovation: The Interplay between Torah and Rabbinic Tradition
Torah Across the Generations: Historical Overview of the Oral Tradition
Jurisprudence in Jewish Law: Sanhedrin – The Supreme Jewish Court
The Art of Torah Exegesis: Rabbi Ishmael's Principles of Hermeneutics
Flexing the Inflexible The History of Rabbinic Judaism
The Innerstream Series
Circumcision: The Indelible Mark - The Intrinsic Bond
Circumcision: Thirteen Covenants - Three Rewards
Honoring Parents: A Debt of Gratitude that Grows with Time
Shabbat: When Creation Honors its Creator
The Kosher Diet: Counting our Spiritual Calories
Ethics of the Spoken Word: When The Mouth Runs Away With What We Know We Shouldn't Say