Yom Kippur Shacharit Sermon 5784
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.
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Erev Yom Kippur Sermon 5784
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I sat nervously in his office, among his many books, facing his cluttered, working desk.
Erev Rosh HaShanah Sermon 5784
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I invite you to cast back your mind to your first conscious memory of being in synagogue.
Rosh haShanah Shacharit Sermon 5784
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In June, I attended a rabbinic conference – my first one in four years!
Everybody’s Judaism
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Are we willing to be vulnerable? To crack ourselves open a little? Are we prepared to challenge ourselves and grow? To be discomfited for the sake of insight; to be pushed for the sake of change?
Elul Sermon #2
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There are few sights more moving than walking into a full synagogue on Kol Nidrey and seeing everyone wearing their tallitot, anticipating our holiest day of the year.
Elul Sermon #1
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We bring ourselves into this preparatory month of Elul, at the threshold of the holy Season of the Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe.
The Fragments and the Whole
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We had gotten up before dawn, driving out to Salisbury under the grey cover of the British December night.
Erev Shabbat
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The scent of fresh challah was timeless and unmistakable and was leading Jonah’s nose to the small bakery suitably wedged between a bookstore and a flower shop.
With the Sea at Your Back and the Wilderness Ahead
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Sermon Last Days of Pesach 2023 My husband likes to teach that the Seder plate is a time machine: not only is the plate itself round like a clock, but the items placed upon it represent the driving narrative of the Exodus and the timeline it unfolds on. From the time of ‘karpas’ (greens) of […]
