Sermons
Ha’azinu – 10/03/2025
Parshat Ha’azinu is Moses’ great song — lofty, poetic, and weighty. And after the High Holidays, with all their intensity, I think we could use a lighter song of our own. So let me share with you one of the Bible’s lesser-known gifts: baseball. You didn’t know baseball was in the Torah? It’s right there […]
Yom Kippur – 10/02/2025 (4 of 4)
The Archer and the Painter – One God – Many Facets This morning, I want to talk about God. That may sound obvious — it is Yom Kippur, after all. But in truth, Judaism often speaks more about what God wants from us than about what God is. We speak about mitzvot, about justice, about […]
Kol Nidre – 10/01/2025 (3 of 4)
We need each other On Rosh Hashanah, we began the tale of the royal archer. The greatest archer in the land, admired by all — yet plagued by disappointment. Because no matter how steady his hand, the wind carried his arrows off course. Inches away from the target felt to him like miles. He reminded […]
Shabbat Shuva – 09/27/2025
Shabbat Shuvah is always a tender time. We stand in the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, with the sound of the shofar still echoing, and the Day of Atonement drawing near. These are days when our tradition calls us inward — to examine our deeds, to measure our words, to do the hard […]
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