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Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Sh’lach Lecha
They locked eyes in the darkness and he could faintly make out the contours of her face. Her brown skin, a muted warm glow, framed by her dark tresses and red veil; all colors bled of their vibrancy by the pallid moonlight.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon beha'a lot'cha
“We are tired and we are hurting.” This heartrending statement is one I heard over and over again from our siblings of color; in the media, on the internet and in real life, as I find myself listening and reading and sitting with the force of this reality today.
We have decided to begin Friday evening Shabbat services a bit earlier, with a schmooze beginning at 6:30 p.m. and the service beginning at 7:00.
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Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon B’har-Bechukotai
There’s a Dutch saying ‘er op of er onder!’, which translates literally as ‘on top of it or underneath’, meaning that we will either succeed gloriously or fail spectacularly but we need to give it everything we’ve got because the time is now.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Acharei Mot, Kedoshim
The cruelty and mystery of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:1 cannot be understated. Embedded among cultic taboos circumscribing forbidden intimate relations in Parashat Acharei Mot, and juxtaposed with verses exhorting ethical conduct in K’doshim, stands the prohibition against ‘offering up offspring to Molekh’.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Tazria-metzora
Each of us is waging a war, fighting a battle. Each of us will have to contend with what this all means for our souls as well as our bodies.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Shemini
Why does God only have four cubits of Halakhah?
