The Naked Torah
Let’s talk about… menstruation, blood, sex and reproduction. Yes, this sermon comes with a content warning.
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 a sermon about the simplest of things; the most common of denominators, and the hardest of truths. Our humanity.
Now we will take a look at what the future may bring and how we may meet the moment.
Quite a number of years ago, when I was a much newer rabbi and still living in the United Kingdom, I befriended a local pastor.
Perhaps you left Egypt with a sense of excitement and confidence, hopeful for what the future brings. Or perhaps you left Egypt with understandable trepidation about the great unknown.
The story-telling element in our Jewish culture is so compelling, worlds of the heart bound in words, each story a gem in a jewel box.
Here we find ourselves; adrift on churning seas.
Did you know that all the world’s citrus fruits are hybridizations of three original species?
I sat across from the rabbi across the table; he was in his mid-sixties or so, with thick-rimmed glasses and a short, scratchy beard.
I sat nervously in his office, among his many books, facing his cluttered, working desk.