High Holy Days 5779 Clergy Sermon
High Holy Days 5779 - Clergy Sermon Yom Kippur Sermons will be added by the end of the month. Thank you! Rabbi David Kosak Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon (9/9/18): A Shortcut to Heaven (text); (audio) Rosh [...]
The Marshmallow Test – Rosh Hashanah 5779 – Rabbi Eve Posen
The Marshmallow Test – Rosh Hashanah 5779 - Rabbi Eve Posen This is the sermon I delivered on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, September 10, 2018. You can listen using the player below or read the text. [...]
Renewing Ourselves – Parshiyot Nitzavim and Vayelech 5778 – Rabbi Eve Posen
Renewing Ourselves – Parshiyot Nitzavim and Vayelech 5778 - Rabbi Eve Posen *Next week I’ll be posting my Rosh Hashanah sermon, so this week I’ve included d’vrei Torah for the portions covering the next two weeks. About a year after Matan [...]
How I Learned to Pray Again – Parshat Ki Tavo 5778 – Rabbi Eve Posen
How I Learned to Pray Again – Parshat Ki Tavo 5778 - Rabbi Eve Posen In the year after my father died, I lost my ability to speak to God. I couldn’t open the siddur, the words which I had read [...]
Till Death Do Us Part – Parshat Ki Teitzei 5778 – Rabbi Eve Posen
Till Death Do Us Part – Parshat Ki Teitzei 5778 - Rabbi Eve Posen As I’ve written about before, I love the way that Judaism tackles death. From the laws of mourning, to the laws of memorializing, there are so [...]
Above the Law – Parshat Shoftim 5778 – Rabbi Eve Posen
Above the Law – Parshat Shoftim 5778 - Rabbi Eve Posen Rules don’t always apply to everyone. There are plenty of examples in the home where decisions are meant for the younger set. Rules like “no ice cream for dessert [...]
Shabbat Service Recordings: D’var Torah, August 11, 2018
Recording from Shabbat Services, August 11, 2018 D'var from Saturday, August 11, 2018 - Rabbi Eve Posen *If you would like to download recording and listen later, right click on the link then click "Save as" and [...]
Go Unnoticed – Parshat Re’eh 5778 – Rabbi Eve Posen
Go Unnoticed – Parshat Re’eh 5778 - Rabbi Eve Posen “Out of sight, out of mind” suggests that we’re going through life like infants, with no sense of object permanence, which of course is absurd. I, for one, am never [...]
Love Lift Us Up – Parshat Eikev 5778 – Rabbi Eve Posen
Love Lift Us Up – Parshat Eikev 5778 - Rabbi Eve Posen “Love is a four-letter word.” It’s a humorous nod to the frustrations and difficulties we encounter in even our closest relationships. Perhaps the real frustration is that love [...]
How Lucky You Are – Parshat Vaetchanan 5778 – Rabbi Eve Posen
How Lucky You Are – Parshat Vaetchanan 5778 - Rabbi Eve Posen There are countless conversations I’ve had with people in generations before me about how lucky I am to live in the world today, and I feel similarly about [...]