Sermons
Our Hearts Are Faint
Our grief is raw and real and is scattered across disorienting winds of pain.
Cordoned Off
In Europe, we have a political term that I always paid attention to in the news: ‘cordon sanitaire’
Rebuilding Our Hearts
The cool, distant glare of history does not always reveal the granular, immediate heat of our anguish.
We Didn’t Start The Fire
This Shabbat is also known as Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Song. This name refers to ‘Shirat haYam’, the ‘Song of the Sea’ that Moses and Miriam sang on the shores of the Sea of Reeds that they had redemptively crossed. I hope you’ll please indulge me as I start with this sermon with a […]
What did the day after look like? Feel like?
For forty days and forty nights, they had been in the bowels of the ark, as the rains pounded down and the waters of the earth spewed forth.
Yom Kippur Shacharit Sermon 5785
The desert sun rises with a fleeting crispness in the air. The Kohen Gadol readies himself by immersing himself in a clear, cold pool.
Kol Nidre Sermon 5785
Today, I want to talk about a new teacher at whose feet I – quite literally – sit.
Rabbi Hugenholtz’s Recorded Rosh HaShanah Sermons
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Erev Rosh HaShanah Sermon 5785
‘How are you?’ It’s a loaded question, isn’t it?
