Rabbi-Cantor Sharon Steinberg's Sermons
Eikev – Rabbi’s Sermon August 15, 2025
Parashat Eikev is Moses’ long goodbye to the Israelites. He’s speaking to a people about to cross into the Promised Land, reminding them of the forty years it took to get there. Forty years of wandering. Forty years of lessons learned slowly, sometimes painfully. It’s hard to imagine that kind of patience today. And maybe […]
Va’etchanan – Rabbi’s Sermon August 8, 2025
Nine-year-old Joey came home from Hebrew school one day, and his mom asked what he learned. He said, “Well, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines to rescue the Israelites. They got to the Red Sea and Moses had his engineers build a pontoon bridge so everyone could walk across. Then […]
Dvarim – Rabbi’s Sermon August 1, 2025
Tonight we open the Book of D’varim—the final book of the Torah. It begins not with action, but with memory. Moses stands before the Israelites and recounts their journey: the mistakes, the growth, the wilderness. But if you look closely, you’ll see—he doesn’t always tell it the same way it happened the first time. Sometimes […]