Category: Rosh Hashanah
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Rosh Hashanah Day 2 5775: “To Conquer Time”
This was a difficult sermon to write. I had cleared a few hours one afternoon to write. I thought leaving the office and heading to a nearby coffee shop would present me with fewer distractions. I…
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Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5775: “The Palace is in Flames”
Rabbis share professional advice with each other. There are “tricks of the trade” and received wisdom that we pass to each other from rabbi to rabbi, from year to year. One such professional rule of thumb is…
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Rosh Hashanah Day 2 5774: “The Faith of Avraham”
The hero of Rosh Hashanah is Avraham. Yesterday we read the story of the long-awaited birth of his son Yitzhak, as well as how, at God’s command, Avraham was prepared to lose his beloved son Yishmael…
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Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5774: “Common Ground is a Choice”
There was once a king who was traveling to a village in a far-off corner of his kingdom. When he reached the village, the people came to greet him and called out to him, “give us…
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld 