High Holy Day Sermons
Sermons delivered at Congregation Bet Haverim during the High Holy Days.
Love Letter to My Congregation, Yom Kippur sermon 5782
Love Letter to My Congregation: A Legacy Letter of Appreciation and Blessing for A Lifetime of Learning, Love and Living Jewishly! An old joke, from before even I was a rabbi, goes like this: A congregant approaches his rabbi with a dilemma. “Rabbi,” he says, “I have a big problem. You know I’m a […]
The Twisty Road Towards Hope, Rosh HaShanah Sermon 5782
A brand new word—to most of us outside the gymnastics’ arena, anyway—was introduced into the broader human lexicon this summer at the Olympics. We came to know this new word—“twisties”—through the devastating experience of four-time gold medalist in gymnastics, Simone Biles. The “twisties” caused her to drop out of some of the most prominent gymnastic […]
Yom Kippur, 5781: Rabbi David Aladjem
May Our Glory Shine Together Video of Rabbi David Aladjem’s Yom Kippur Sermon https://youtu.be/RZuJYh-Ys1o Holy Friends: G’mar chatima tova – may each of you, all of our friends and family, and all the world be sealed in the Book of Life for a good and sweet year. I. On Rosh Hashanah, I talked about […]
Yom Kippur, 5781: Rabbi Greg Wolfe
Lessons Squeezed From Lemons: What Life Can Teach Us in Challenging Times Rabbi Greg Wolfe’s Yom Kippur Sermon https://youtu.be/mou1_sGSw_w A beautiful lemon tree stands in our yard. Quiet and unassuming, this little tree produces more lemons that we could ever use, or even give away. The great irony, however, is that our lemons ripen in […]
Rosh HaShanah, 5781: Rabbi Greg Wolfe
The Shofar’s Cries to Arise: Breaking Our Hearts on the Way to Wholeness Rabbi Greg Wolfe’s Rosh Hashannah Sermon https://youtu.be/8Hel-cyi20Y Even in today’s modern world, fires can ravage entire communities, well we know, leaving lives uprooted in the wake of terrible destruction. So you can only imagine, long ago and far away, in the days […]
Rosh HaShanah, 5781: Rabbi David Aladjem
Sermon for Rosh HaShanah – 5781/2020, Teshuvah and the Small Still Voice Rabbi David Aladjem’s Rosh Hashannah Sermon https://youtu.be/WACBIWSjEtU Holy Friends: Shanah tova u’mitukah – may this be a good and sweet new year for us and for all the world! I. To state the obvious, when we gathered together last year at this […]
Yom Kippur 5780: Rabbi Greg Wolfe
“Putting our Values into Action: Our Lives are Hanging in the Balance!”
Rabbi Greg Wolfe
Rosh Hashana 5780: Rabbi Greg Wolfe
The Power of Community: Tending to the Tent of Meaning
Rabbi Greg Wolfe
