Rabbi Rachel Bearman

For as long as I can remember, my Judaism has been something that I valued, something that I loved about myself, and something that...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS SERMON (Go to 1:30 in the video if you'd like to skip directly to the sermon.) While you might not recognize the...

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS SERMON (Go to 47:50) Shabbat Shalom, friends. I want to begin by saying that I spent some time this week...

This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Noach, and it includes two very famous stories (and a lot of genealogies). The first of the...

This week’s Torah portion, Naso, is the second portion in the book of Numbers. In the middle of the parashah, nestled between seemingly...

In this week’s double Torah portion - Acharei Mot, Kedoshim- we read a very famous verse, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and say...

Earlier this week, I read a piece in the New York Times called, “How We Survive the Winter.” The article was published the day before the...

For months and months, I’ve been excitedly considering what I should talk about in my first High Holy Day sermon at my new congregation....

I was taught, and I believe, that the Torah is not the history of the world but is instead the Jewish people’s way of telling our own...

Narratives that coalesce around a single person who is the only one who can perform a critical task are ever present and ever popular. I...