Sermons
Shoftim – 08/29/2025
‘Ani L’dodi V’dodi Li‘ – I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine. This phrase comes to us from the Song of Songs, love poetry found in our bible. In many Jewish weddings betrothed couples recite this phrase to vow and declare their love for one another. Within a religious context, these words speak […]
Re’eh – 08/22/2025
“Re’eh anochi notein lifneichem b’racha uklalah — See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse.” The Torah insists that blessing and curse are both before us — but it does not say we will always choose blessing. Often we cling to the curse we know, out of fear of the unknown. The […]
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 […]
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