Rosh Hashanah 2022/5783
The morning that the Dobbs decision was expected to be released, I was sitting in my office, refreshing the Supreme Court’s website over...
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Rabbi Rachel Bearman
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June 24th: We Are the Sotah
Rabbi Bearman's Note: This reflection is based on the Sotah ritual- first described in the Book of Numbers- where a woman would be forced...
A Sermon For May 27th 2022
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 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 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 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....
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....
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...
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...
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