The Talmud tells about a great sage named Honi who once saw a young man planting a sapling. He sat in the heat of the sun and watched the man digging in the ground, placing the tiny tree into the hole, and surrounding it with earth. And then, Honi sat down in the shade andContinueContinue reading “Lessons of Auschwitz: A Sermon for Yom Kippur 5776”
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A Meditation for Selichot
On this night of forgiveness, we think about the wrongs that have been done. There are people we have wronged. There are people who have wronged us. Our tradition teaches us to be like God, to be “rachum v’chanun erech apayim v’rav chesed v’emet” – compassionate and gracious, forgiving and slow to anger and filledContinueContinue reading “A Meditation for Selichot”
Rabbi Micah Streiffer 