About Rabbi Boaz Marmon
Scholarship and Service
Rabbi Boaz Marmon
Rabbi Marmon believes that despite a great deal of tragedy and persecution in our history, the native emotional expression of Judaism remains joy – that is why we drink wine for so many Jewish occasions! (Wine makes a person happy, says the psalmist.)
Further, Judaism is generally a practical and logical tradition whose beauty is only deepened as we grow in understanding of the wisdom of our heritage; even if in doing so we acknowledge some flaws or identify certain ideas whose time has passed.
The Rabbi’s goal for Congregation Shaara Tfille in the coming years is to sustain and grow a community living a vibrant, joyous Judaism which is respectful of the demands and dynamics of modern life, while rooted in and representative of our centuries of tradition
Experience &
Perspectives
Rabbi Boaz Marmon came to Congregation Shaara Tfille in the summer of 2020, after serving five years as a Congregational Rabbi in Southern New Jersey, on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Rabbi Marmon was ordained in 2015 by the Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR), a non-denominational seminary located in Yonkers, New York.
In a sense, Rabbi Marmon has been training for the pulpit since birth, as his late father, Rabbi Elliott Marmon (ז”ל), was a rabbi who spent much of his career as a chaplain in the United States Army and Air Force. As such, the Marmons were a family of “wandering Jews” with stops in West Germany, North Carolina, Chicago, Phoenix, San Antonio, southeast England and Nebraska.
Rabbi Marmon served as a Signals Intelligence Analyst and Iraqi Arabic linguist in the United States Army, mostly in California and Germany. He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, before turning to a rabbinic career, adding to an already eclectic set of experiences and influences for a rabbi. AJR, a seminary built on the diverse and eclectic, was the perfect place to grow and mold this background into a practical rabbinic toolkit.
As head of the Hebrew School, Rabbi Marmon is the primary teacher of all the students currently enrolled. He also teaches the Bar and Bat Mitzvah Class. During his first year at Congregation Shaara Tfille, Rabbi Marmon introduced a popular new curriculum, relying heavily on music as a tool to teach Hebrew and prayer.
During COVID-19, Rabbi Marmon has offered learning for adults via Zoom, including a weekly “Art and Architecture of Jewish Prayer” class exploring the prayer service, a weekly Pirkei Avot class and a monthly “Wednesdays with Rashi and Friends” lecture/discussion program examining traditional commentaries on the Torah.
Adult Education Returns: Tanakh: Prophets. Rabbi Marmon’s new Adult Education class explores reading and understanding the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. Mondays, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the synagogue and via Zoom.
Torah Readings
This new page provides information and guidance on the reading of the Torah, the proper protocol for receiving an aliya and provides audio recordings for aliya blessings, Torah tropes, Haftarah tropes and for the blessings after the Haftarah.
The Rabbi’s Blog
Rabbi Boaz Marmon
Congregation Shaara Tfille
December 2024
Perspective shapes everything. Take Chanukah: Roughly 165 years before the Common Era (BCE), the Greek King Antiochus IV, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, that fraction of Alexander’s empire headquartered in Syria and ruling over the Land of Israel, decided to end...
September 2024
As we approach the Fall Holidays this year, we also approach the anniversary of the Simchat Torah Massacre perpetrated by Hamas on the Gaza Envelope communities of Southern Israel and at the Nova music festival, and the yahrzeit of roughly 1200 victims killed in the...