Rabbi Hugenholtz’s Recorded Rosh HaShanah Sermons
Find recordings of Rabbi Hugenholtz’s Rosh HaShanah Sermons.
Rosh Hashanah
Erev Rosh HaShanah Sermon 5785
‘How are you?’ It’s a loaded question, isn’t it?
Rosh HaShanah Shacharit Sermon 5785
Loving Through The Pain Imagine the two of them walking up the mountain path, their sandaled feet cut by bristle and thorn. The sun is already hot mid-morning; their calves ache from the effort and their parched throats speak few words. One is old, the other young. The old one is driven by a zealotry […]
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
What does it mean to go ‘from yourself, from your homeland, the place of your birth and your father’s house?’ Surely, the Torah could have sufficed in saying ‘lech m’artz’cha el ha’aretz asher ar’echa’ – ‘go from your land to the land that I will show you.’ We normally assume that the Torah’s language is efficient and focused, so if the Torah uses a more expanded syntax, it means we are called to read the text very closely. In fact, we are going to read it so closely that we are going to only look at ‘lech lecha’.
That’s right: this is a sermon about two words. Two words.
