Rabbi Rachel Bearman

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    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

    Yom Kippur 2019 / 5780

    A couple years ago, while I was visiting my family in Memphis, I spent an afternoon doing what everyone does on vacation… digitizing old...
    Yom Kippur 2019 / 5780

    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...
    Kol Nidre 2019 / 5780

    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...
    Rosh Hashanah 5780

    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...
    Erev Rosh Hashanah 5780

    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...
    A Yom Kippur Sermon

    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,...
    Kol Nidre 2018

    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...
    A Rosh Hashanah Sermon

    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...
    An Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon
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