From Adversity to Gratitude
This week’s Parashah could be called, well, not quite ‘four weddings and a funeral’ but close enough: two funerals and two weddings.
This week’s Parashah could be called, well, not quite ‘four weddings and a funeral’ but close enough: two funerals and two weddings.
We’ve uploaded video of Rabbi Hugenholtz giving her sermons from Rosh HaShanah to YouTube.
Despite my prayers and sacred practices, the tried-and-true spiritual technology that usually helps me into a contemplative and connected space, I have felt a barrenness in my soul.
If monotheism is assumed, it is also more challenging to step outside of that paradigm and reflect on why monotheism matters.
I secretly delight in using the pulpit as a confession booth. I mean, I am being facetious, but hear me out.
During my summer vacation, I did that thing that rabbis are prone to doing: I attended services at another congregation.
There is only so much dissonance the human brain can absorb at any given moment and more wisdom (and rage) may filter through the recesses of our consciousness in days to come.
I cannot offer you a nechemta, dear brothers and sisters, dear siblings.
Please allow me to start this sermon with oversharing. One of the weirder trivia about me is that I had three children in three different countries.
‘Feeling like a Passover Pariah? You’re not alone!’ This was the kind of New York Times headline that immediately grabbed my attention.