On the Cusp of History
The personal dramas of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs have always played out on the stage of historical change and in this sense, their lives are no different from our own.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Vayechi
The personal dramas of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs have always played out on the stage of historical change and in this sense, their lives are no different from our own.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Vayishlach
Darkness is an overarching theme of Jacob’s life.
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Secretary News, Sermon Chayei Sara
According to the source-critical approach, Chayei Sara contains three segments.
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.
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?
Not so long ago, before the Jewish High Holidays, my five-year-old daughter – the middle child – insightfully asked me whether God ever makes mistakes.
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon
‘Did they’, she wondered out loud, ‘consider the gardens they planted, their last garden?’