Rabbi Denise Eger’s Yom Kippur Morning Sermon 2014 – YouTube http://ow.ly/CBSfw
Rabbi Denise Eger’s Yom Kippur Morning
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Posted by in Uncategorized Rabbi Denise Eger’s Yom Kippur Evening Kol Nidrei Sermon 2014 – YouTube http://ow.ly/CBScO
Sukkah Guests
Posted by in Uncategorized Tonight we begin the Festival of Sukkot, our Fall Harvest Extravaganza! In our day and time this is a most overlooked by liberal Jews. With so much emphasis on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur the rest of the High Holy Days- Sukkot, Hoshanah Rabbah, Simchat Torah are often passed by. In the ancient days this…Read more »
Heed the Sounds of the Warnings.
Posted by in Uncategorized Shanah Tovah. Happy New Year to you all. I want to share with you something From the memoirs of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meisels, z”l describing Rosh Hashanah 1944. It is a true story. “The experience of one transport that left Auschwitz is seared in my memory,” he writes. “With the grace of HASHEM I was…Read more »
Yom Kippur Transitions and Remembrances
Posted by in Uncategorized I wish you each a Ketivah v’chatimah tovah! A good inscription and seal in the Book of Life. And for those of you that are fasting a Tzom Kal, an easy fast. In May of 1972 Judaism went through a dramatic transition. The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ordained its first woman rabbi, Rabbi…Read more »
Israel, the Media and You: A new Commitment in the New Year
Posted by in Uncategorized A CNN Reporter, BBC Reporter, and an Israeli commando were captured by terrorists in Iraq. The leader of the terrorists told them that he would grant them each one last request before they were beheaded. The CNN Reporter said, ‘Well, I’m an American, so I’d like one last hamburger with French fries.” The leader nodded…Read more »
Time to ask for Forgiveness
Posted by in Uncategorized It is almost Kol Nidre. The time to be ask and pray fervently to be released from vows and to turn our hearts in Teshuvah, in repentance, for all of the sins of the past year. Sin is a heavy word. When I come face to face with that word I hear evangelical Christian ministers.…Read more »
Awaken My Soul/We Shall Overcome
Posted by in Uncategorized The musical piece that followed my Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon is below. Cantor Mark Saltzman and Jeremy Gimbel with Alec Milstein on Bass http://youtu.be/XyyIcfp27PQ
Awaken My Soul: A sermon for Erev Rosh Hashanah
Posted by in judaism, tikkun olam Shana Tovah Wow! Wasn’t this something. Thank you Cantor and Jeremy and the Kol Ami New Year’s Band for such an uplifting beginning to our Rosh Hashanah 5775! We all need awakening for the New Year. Tonight we can say goodbye to the tzoris of last year. For the last few months I just…Read more »
Universal and Particular
Posted by in Uncategorized The Universal and Particular Next week we will be observing Rosh Hashanah. I look forward to greeting each of you at our magnificent High Holy Day services at the Artani Theatre at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC )in Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles. Our New Year’s observances are different than many other…Read more »
Walking Humbly. Seeking Justice. Living with Hope. 