High Holy Day Sermons

2025

• Letting Go of the Jar (Yizkor)
• Disrupting The Violence (Kol Nidrei)
• Embracing the Lighthearted (Rosh Hashanah II)
• The Precision of Pain, The Blurriness of Joy: (Rosh Hashanah I )

2024

• Rosh Hashanah I: Tikun Means Repair
• Rosh Hashanah II: This is Family
• Kol Nidrei: Forgiveness Wasn’t A Priority This Year
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: We Can’t Cut Kohelet in Half

2022

• Rosh Hashanah I: If You Run You Could Fall
• Rosh Hashanah II: In A Place Without Abraham
• Kol Nidrei: The Goat at the Edge of The Cliff
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: Because That’s What Makes It Matter

2019

• Rosh Hashanah I: If Not Now, When
• Rosh Hashanah II: What Can You Imagine
• Kol Nidrei: Letting Go
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: Failing and Falling

2018

• Rosh Hashanah I: You’ll Get It When You Feel It
• Rosh Hashanah II: None Other Than the Name of God
• Kol Nidrei: How is Your Neshama
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: The Last Touch

2017

• Rosh Hashanah I: Space to Dream
• Rosh Hashanah II: Returning to Silence
• Kol Nidrei: Standing by the Window of Forgiveness
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: The Gift That Returns

2016

• Rosh Hashanah I: Yearning to Breathe
• Rosh Hashanah II: You’re Afraid? So am I?
• Kol Nidrei: Behind the Curtain
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: Coming Home

2015

• Rosh Hashanah I: What Courage Looks Like
• Rosh Hashanah II: On Intimacy Love and Fear
• Kol Nidrei: Reckless
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: These Words We Know

2014

• Rosh Hashanah I: Standing Before Israel in Humility
• Rosh Hashanah II: Seeing Beauty in the Face of Age
• Kol Nidrei: Who We Might Become
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: Learning to Die

2013

• Rosh Hashanah I: The Story of My Life
• Rosh Hashanah II: Radical Acceptance
• Kol Nidrei: Spiritual Surrender
• Yom Kippur Yizkor: There She Goes, Here She Comes