Rosh Hashana September 28,2003 The seven most boring and potentially horrifying words with which to open a sermon are probably, “Results of a recent demographic study reveal….” So instead, I will try something a bit catchier, and shorter. Its only four words – “Sex and the City.” Actually, I will make a deal …
Rosh Hashana September 27, 2003 In 1933, facing the growing menace posed by an increasingly bellicose and well-armed Third Reich, as well as the problems of a ravaged economy, and personal disillusionment and widespread depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt uttered the immortal words, “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” He wanted …
Yom Kippur September 16, 2002 I heard a remarkable story the other day, which I must share with you. It is the kind of thing which I would expect to read about, and then I would have clipped and saved in order to use in a sermon. Instead it is, what we call …
Kol Nidre September 15, 2002 Most of us here tonight are probably too young to recall a year like the one we have just experienced. After the liquidation of Jewish life in Europe, and the annihilation of six million Jews, the Jewish people displayed an amazing resiliency and tenacity, defying all expectations, by refusing …
One of the central features of the Jewish wedding ceremony is the sheva brachot, the seven blessings. It corresponds to the seven days of creation and the fact that a new entity and world is created through the sanctification of the union of the new couple standing under the chuppah. The last of the …
Rosh Hashana September 7, 2002 All year long, I collect material which I consider using for the high holidays. A few weeks or months before Rosh Hashana, I begin the process of reviewing what I have gathered. When something doesn’t make the cut one year, I often keep it and put it back into …
Erev Rosh Hashana September 6, 2002 I want to ask you an unusual question this evening. Have you ever ridden on a public bus? As a child, I used to take the number 5 bus from Franklin Junior High School in Reisterstown, Maryland to mid-week Hebrew school. And I would sometimes take the …
Yom Kippur September 27, 2001 It is more than just an aphorism to state that life as we know it will never again be the same. Time will now be measured in terms of Before September 11, 2001 and after. Two weeks later, it is still hard to get the horrific images out of …
Kol Nidre September 26, 2001 This time of year is such a moving one, lending itself to introspection and reflection upon important issues, which otherwise might not receive the attention they deserve. This day is truly a gift, bequeathed to us by our ancestors. Although they lived in a far simpler time, or perhaps precisely …
Rosh Hashana September 19, 2001 We have just heard, and shall hear again more fully, during the musaf service the sound of the shofar blasts. Maimonides explains in the Mishneh Torah that the blasts are meant to summon us to arise from our slumber, so that we may search our deeds and repent. Its …
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