Rabbi Rachel Bearman

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    A Sermon for Noach

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

    Moses & the Storm

    According to tradition, Rosh Chodesh Elul (the first day of the month before the High Holy Days) was the day that Moses went back up...
    Moses & the Storm

    A Sermon for Naso

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

    A Story of Motherhood

    The sound woke me from a deep sleep. It must have triggered the instinct that caring for my own son had planted deeply in my brain...
    A Story of Motherhood

    God is the Fire

    God is the Fire

    Be Holy, Earthlings

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

    A New Midrash for Ki tisa

    THE ISRAELITES: The whispers have been flying for days. They buzz and bite like the flies that tormented the Egyptians. Moses has been...
    A New Midrash for Ki tisa

    Miriam: More Water Than Woman

    I’ve been waiting to die for weeks. Each day, as we travel through the desert, I put one foot in front of the other, toes slipping in...
    Miriam: More Water Than Woman

    In the beginning...

    In the beginning, for unknowable amounts of time, Divinity existed in a world that was unformed and mysterious. They were not lonely....
    In the beginning...

    A reflection on this moment of transition

    A reflection on this moment of transition

    A Sermon for the last Shabbat of 2020

    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...
    A Sermon for the last Shabbat of 2020

    A Midrash For Vayishlach

    The prayer of the unnamed, unloved, and unwritten. We are the wives of Jacob. We are the unnamed, the unloved, and the unwritten. We are...
    A Midrash For Vayishlach

    A New Midrash for Bereshit

    I was the snake. The fruit was not temptation; it was opportunity. The sin would have been to stay in ignorance, to remain in the garden...
    A New Midrash for Bereshit

    A Sermon for Yom Kippur 2020

    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....
    A Sermon for Yom Kippur 2020

    Following Channah's Example: A Prayer for Rosh Hashanah

    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....
    Following Channah's Example: A Prayer for Rosh Hashanah

    My Response to the 2020 Mulan Remake

    **** 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...
    My Response to the 2020 Mulan Remake

    Korach Was Right

    “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...
    Korach Was Right

    A Quilt for the Future

    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....
    A Quilt for the Future

    Wrap Me Up: A Prayer For Those Who Are Overwhelmed

    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...
    Wrap Me Up: A Prayer For Those Who Are Overwhelmed

    A Prayer for Light on Hanukkah Filled With Shadows

    A Prayer for Light on Hanukkah Filled With Shadows
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