The Imperative and Gift of Jewish JoyFor as long as I can remember, my Judaism has been something that I valued, something that I loved about myself, and something that...
Rosh Hashanah 5784 / 2023CLICK 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 May 27th 2022CLICK 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 NoachThis 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 NasoThis week’s Torah portion, Naso, is the second portion in the book of Numbers. In the middle of the parashah, nestled between seemingly...
Be Holy, EarthlingsIn this week’s double Torah portion - Acharei Mot, Kedoshim- we read a very famous verse, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and say...
A Sermon for the last Shabbat of 2020Earlier 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 Yom Kippur 2020For months and months, I’ve been excitedly considering what I should talk about in my first High Holy Day sermon at my new congregation....
Kol Nidre 2019 / 5780I 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 5780Narratives that coalesce around a single person who is the only one who can perform a critical task are ever present and ever popular. I...