The Imperative and Gift of Jewish Joy
For as long as I can remember, my Judaism has been something that I valued, something that I loved about myself, and something that...
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Rabbi Rachel Bearman
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Rosh Hashanah 5784 / 2023
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...
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....
Kol Nidre 2019 / 5780
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...
Rosh Hashanah 5780
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...
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...
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...
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