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....
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Rabbi Rachel Bearman
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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...
Sarai in the Palace (A Midrash for Lech Lecha)
In Genesis 12:1, God calls to Abram, telling him to leave his homeland and to go to a land that God will show him. Abram and Sarai follow...
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...
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 Midrash for Rosh Hashanah, Day Two
Genesis 21:3 And Abraham called his son, the one born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, by the name Isaac (Yitzchak, “He-Will-Laugh”). 9...
It's that time of year!
God of Creation, as this new school year begins, we ask that You: Give our children open minds and hearts and let them encounter new,...
Tired Tropes and Modern Politics: A Shabbat Sermon
On Wednesday, the Chief Executive and President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis released the following statement: “The...
God's Secret Name
They quarreled immediately. [Lilith] said: ‘I will not lie below you.’ [Adam] said, ‘I will not lie below you, but above you. For you are...
We Won't Go Back: A Shabbat Sermon
A week and a half ago, Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp signed what was at that point the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country....
Vayishlach: 10 Minutes of Torah
In Parashat Vayishlach, we read of the death of our matriarch, Rachel, who does not survive the birth of her second child, a boy whom she...
Gathering the Sparks
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel described Shabbat as a palace in time. In his mind, the hours from sundown to sundown knit together to form...
Those Who Accompany Me
I stand with my sisters. I look to my left, and I see Dinah who has a knowing look in her eyes. She understands better than anyone what...
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...
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...
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