Rebuilding Our Hearts
The cool, distant glare of history does not always reveal the granular, immediate heat of our anguish.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz
About Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz
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We Didn’t Start The Fire
This Shabbat is also known as Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song. This name refers to ‘Shirat haYam’, the ‘Song of the Sea’ that Moses and Miriam sang on the shores of the Sea of Reeds that they had redemptively crossed. I hope you’ll please indulge me as I start with this sermon with a […]
What did the day after look like? Feel like?
For forty days and forty nights, they had been in the bowels of the ark, as the rains pounded down and the waters of the earth spewed forth.
Kol Nidre Sermon 5785
Today, I want to talk about a new teacher at whose feet I – quite literally – sit.
Erev Rosh HaShanah Sermon 5785
‘How are you?’ It’s a loaded question, isn’t it?
The Edge of the Promised Land
‘There are giants in the land’ they say, ‘and we are like grasshoppers in their eyes and in in ours.’
The Naked Torah
Let’s talk about… menstruation, blood, sex and reproduction. Yes, this sermon comes with a content warning.
This is Not A Sermon about Geopolitics
This is not a sermon about geopolitics. This is a sermon about the simplest of things; the most common of denominators, and the hardest of truths. Our humanity.
Sermon Series on the Synagogue: Sermon Three of Three
Now we will take a look at what the future may bring and how we may meet the moment.
