This is the sermon that I delivered on Yom Kippur morning 5781/2000. It is about racism, privilege, bias, and justice – and about our responsibility to confront this issue and to ensure a just society. The text is below, or you can watch it here: Twenty seven centuries ago, a man stood up in aContinue reading “Break the Bonds of Injustice: A Sermon about Race”
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Life Up Your Head! A Yom Kippur Sermon about Awe
Note: This is the sermon that I delivered on Kol Nidrei this year (5781/2020). It is about the importance of “lifting up our heads” to experience what is awe inspiring in the world around us. The text is below, or you can watch it here: There is a strange story in the midrash. It tellsContinue reading “Life Up Your Head! A Yom Kippur Sermon about Awe”
Hineini: Here I Am
This is the sermon that I delivered on Rosh Hashanah morning 5781 (2020) in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is about the ways that we can be there for each other, even when we can’t be together. The text is below, or you can watch it here: When I was four years oldContinue reading “Hineini: Here I Am”
By the Rivers of Babylon
A Sermon for Yom Kippur Morning 5780 It’s not every day that a song attains popularity in two different years. It’s even more unusual when those two years are more than 25 centuries apart from each other. In 1970, a Jamaican reggae group called the Melodians released a song called “By the Rivers ofContinue reading “By the Rivers of Babylon”
Rabbi Micah Streiffer 