Rabbi Rachel Bearman

The Haftarah portion for Rosh Hashanah comes from the first two chapters of 1 Samuel, and it tells the story of two, very unhappy women....

**** Spoilers for the 2020 Mulan (and also I guess for the 1998 Mulan… which you should have seen by now.)*** Whelp… I watched the remake...

“They combined against Moses and Aaron and said to them, ‘You have gone too far! For all the community are holy, all of them, and the...

This weekend, I set up the sewing machine that I bought after it was announced that we should all be wearing masks when we’re in public....

Ezrat Nafsheinu- Soul sustainer, I'm tempted to go get my tallis, sit with my legs tucked up underneath me, and wrap myself in fabric and...

In Genesis 12:1, God calls to Abram, telling him to leave his homeland and to go to a land that God will show him. Abram and Sarai follow...

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...

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

Genesis 21:3 And Abraham called his son, the one born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, by the name Isaac (Yitzchak, “He-Will-Laugh”). 9...

God of Creation, as this new school year begins, we ask that You: Give our children open minds and hearts and let them encounter new,...

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

They quarreled immediately. [Lilith] said: ‘I will not lie below you.’ [Adam] said, ‘I will not lie below you, but above you. For you are...

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....

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...

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

I stand with my sisters. I look to my left, and I see Dinah who has a knowing look in her eyes. She understands better than anyone what...

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

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