D’var by Frank Salomon for Chayei Sara
According to the source-critical approach, Chayei Sara contains three segments.
November 2020
In the Breach and to the Brink
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Vayera
In many ways, the story of Abraham in Parashat Vayera, is the detail – what the Rabbis called the ‘p’rat’ – of the Noach story.
Let There Not Be Strife Among Us
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Lech Lecha
Can we be like Abram? Can we center ourselves on our morality and center each other’s humanity? Can we hold difference and create space? Can we recognize grievance and pain, diversity and blessing? Can we leverage wealth and power not for prestige and conquest but for compassion and the common good?
