Recent Sermons

Hanukkah 2021

**What Lights will You Light this Year?**

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, I remember that David was more freaked out by the subsequent anthrax scare than he was by the events of 9/11. I remember him saying that a person can tolerate the first hit; it’s the second one that really gets you.

This year, as we go through our second iteration of pandemic holidays, I feel the prescience of his words....Read more...

**Art and the Imagination**

Real Presence — Art in Vayakhel-Pekudei

It is surprising that after the narrative of the calf, the Torah returns to the mishkan, the tabernacle in the desert. Regardless of whether you hold that the building of the mishkan was a response to the calf or whether you hold that it preceded the calf, either way it is surprising that after the people sin grievously, attempting to locate God’s presence...Read more...