judaism – Page 10 – Rabbi Micah Streiffer

Va’etchanan: On the Doorposts of the Sky

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8i32j-e52a73 Deep thoughts about the holiness, awe, and the oneness of the universe – that came to me at 4 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 ofContinueContinue reading “By the Rivers of Babylon”

From Other to Neighbour

A Sermon for Kol Nidrei 5780. This past year we watched as migrant children were separated from their families at the US border. As people slept on the floors of crowded detention facilities. We watched as our neighbour to the south struggled to know how to handle a flood of people coming from somewhereContinueContinue reading “From Other to Neighbour”

Yet

(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”