Sermons
One God or Less – Monotheism and the Quality of Mercy
If monotheism is assumed, it is also more challenging to step outside of that paradigm and reflect on why monotheism matters.
God is Everywhere, Even the God You Don’t Believe In
I secretly delight in using the pulpit as a confession booth. I mean, I am being facetious, but hear me out.
The Great and Awful Wilderness
During my summer vacation, I did that thing that rabbis are prone to doing: I attended services at another congregation.
Sermonette: Fringes
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 Will Remember the Land
I cannot offer you a nechemta, dear brothers and sisters, dear siblings.
Context Is Everything
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.
Sermon Pesach 2022
‘Feeling like a Passover Pariah? You’re not alone!’ This was the kind of New York Times headline that immediately grabbed my attention.
Time for Rest and Healing
The meaning of Tazria – of both the woman after childbirth and the ‘metzora’ (the person afflicted by tzara’at, a skin condition affecting the individual) – is the implicit and explicit reality of rest and healing.
Casting Wide the Net of Community
Our world has shifted on its axis again and we try to find new footing.
D’var Torah by Lea Haravon Collins
Lea Haravon Collins’ D’var Torah for Parashat Tetzaveh
