NOTE: Each day from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur I will be posting an inspiring Jewish text along with a few questions for reflection. Feel free to answer and discuss here, or to use these questions for your own reflection/journaling. These texts are also being posted on my Facebook page TEXT 10 – Untaneh Tokef Prayer (FromContinueContinue reading “10 Awesome Texts for the 10 Days of Awe – Day 10”
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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”
“Not Very Religious” – A Sermon for Kol Nidrei 5777
It is told that once, just before the start of Yom Kippur, the Baal Shem Tov went up to a Jew in the back of the synagogue and asked him to lead the Kol Nidre service. The man looked up at the Baal Shem and did what any of us might do in the situation:ContinueContinue reading ““Not Very Religious” – A Sermon for Kol Nidrei 5777″
Al Tira – Do Not Be Afraid: A Sermon for Kol Nidre 5776
What are we all so afraid of? About 40 years ago, in the mid 1970s, a psychologist named Roger Hart did a study on the playing behaviours of children in a small town in Vermont. He documented their activities; he interviewed all 86 children in the town about the places where they played. And heContinueContinue reading “Al Tira – Do Not Be Afraid: A Sermon for Kol Nidre 5776”
Rabbi Micah Streiffer 