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Erev Rosh Hashanah 5780

Figuring out what I wanted to speak about tonight was a very lengthy and difficult process. I started and abandoned several sermons until...

Tired Tropes and Modern Politics: A Shabbat Sermon

On Wednesday, the Chief Executive and President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis released the following statement: “The...

We Won't Go Back: A Shabbat Sermon

A week and a half ago, Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp signed what was at that point the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country....

Vayishlach: 10 Minutes of Torah

In Parashat Vayishlach, we read of the death of our matriarch, Rachel, who does not survive the birth of her second child, a boy whom she...

Gathering the Sparks

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel described Shabbat as a palace in time. In his mind, the hours from sundown to sundown knit together to form...

A Yom Kippur Sermon

When the first and second Temples still stood in Jerusalem, Yom Kippur looked significantly different than it does today. The ancient...

Kol Nidre 2018

Over the summer, I received a message from Rabbi Paul Kipnes, who serves a congregation in California. In addition to his pulpit work,...

A Rosh Hashanah Sermon

In tractate Sanhedrin 17b of the Babylonian Talmud, we read: A Torah scholar is not allowed to live in a city that does not have these 10...

An Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon

One of the most powerful and important motifs that we find in the High Holy Day prayer book is the idea of the Book of Life. On Rosh...

A Sermon for June 15th

Earlier this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a quote from the New Testament to support the brutal separation of children and...

Rabbi Rachel Bearman