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 ofContinueContinue reading “By the Rivers of Babylon”
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(A Sermon for Kol Nidrei 5779/2018) Once, a young disciple went off to seek a great teacher. The old master had been hiding in exile for many years. Very few people even knew where he was. But the disciple was persistent. And when he did finally find the sage, the old man gave him aContinueContinue reading “Yet”
Sharing Our Home: Lessons from a Spider
(Following is the sermon I delivered on Yom Kippur morning 5779/2018.) I had some help writing this sermon…from a spider. I’ll tell you about that in a few minutes, but first, a story. The midrash tells of a group of people traveling together over the water. They were traveling in a boat large enoughContinueContinue reading “Sharing Our Home: Lessons from a Spider”
From Human Doing to Human Being: A Yom Kippur Sermon About Mindfulness
I’d like to introduce you to the philosophical treatise that has most influenced my life: Calvin & Hobbes. You may laugh, but anyone who’s ever read Calvin & Hobbes knows that it addresses serious questions about existence and values and meaning…all through the eyes of the world’s most precocious 6-year-old and his imaginary tiger friend.ContinueContinue reading “From Human Doing to Human Being: A Yom Kippur Sermon About Mindfulness”
Rabbi Micah Streiffer 