Geeky Rabbi

Theology, Technology and a bit of Music

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2022

  1. 2022 Yom Kippur Morning: It’s About Time
  2. 2022 Yom Kippur Evening: Regret is Holy
  3. 2022 Rosh Hashanah Morning: Changing How We Think About Change
  4. 2022 Rosh Hashanah Evening: “It is Good”
  5. A New Life During 2 Minutes of Silence
  6. What Whoopi Goldberg can Teach an Athens, GA Elementary School

2021

  1. Response to Capital Riot: Truth Shall Sprout from the Earth

2020

  1. It Remains a Dream (Ki Teitzi)
  2. What Does it Mean to be Free?
  3. Count Each Person. Each Person Counts.
  4. In the Summer
  5. After Death Comes Life
  6. Yom HaShoah 2020
  7. What day is Today?
  8. Hear One Another's Prayers
  9. It Is Time to Stop
  10. Publicizing the Miracle of Judaism

2019

  1. Diverging on the Path of Least Resistance (Lech L’cha)
  2. Stand with Other Tribes (Yom Kippur 5780/2019)
  3. Ecclesiastes and Job Are True (Kol Nidrei 5780/2019)
  4. We Are All Below the Mountain (Rosh Hashanah Morning 5780/2019)
  5. There Is No Messiah … and You're It (Rosh Hashanah Evening 5780/2019)
  6. The Broken Tablets Are Holy Too (Eikev)
  7. We Lost More Than the Temple (Tisha B'av)
  8. The Footsteps of Halachah (B'Chukotai)
  9. The (Future) Memory of Israel (Yom HaZikaron)
  10. We Do It Because We Are Jewish (Yom HaShoah)
  11. Strange Fire (Sh'mini)
  12. A Rabbi Talks About Christianity (from a Unitarian Pulpit)

2018

  1. Jacob's Ideal Death Teaches Us How to Live (Vayechi)
  2. Drawing Near to God and Ourselves (Vayera)
  3. Noah's Ark & Climate Change (Noah)
  4. The Roseto Effect (Yom Kippur Evening 2018)
  5. Happiness Is a Choice (Yom Kippur 2018)
  6. Abraham Failed the Test (Rosh Hashanah Morning 2018)
  7. Indictiveness, Thou-Ness, and Matters of Substance (Rosh Hashanah Evening 2018)
  8. Martin Luther King Shabbat
  9. … And There's Work to Be Done (Vayikra)
  10. Will God Dwell Amongst Us Again? (T'rumah)
  11. A Burden of One (Yitro)
  12. Martin Luther King: Our World House

2017

  1. Safe Spaces, Holy Spaces (Yom Kippur 2017)
  2. You Want It Darker (Kol Nidrei 2017)
  3. Let Truth Spring Forth from the Earth (and From Us) (Rosh Hashanah Morning 2017)
  4. Look at Your Steps & Then, Look Up! (Rosh Hashanah Evening 2017)
  5. Passion Without Compassion (Pinchas)
  6. A King, a Prophet and the Western Wall (Balak)
  7. Fact, Not Truth (B'chukotai)
  8. You Shall Be Holy (K'doshim)
  9. Have We Abandoned God? (Yom HaShoah)
  10. What Has God Done for Me Lately? (Passover)
  11. The Limitations of Our Sight (Ki Tissa)
  12. Never Again (International Holocaust Remembrance Day)
  13. Pharaoh Knew Not Joseph
  14. To Exist or to Live, That Is the Question (Vayechi)

2016

  1. What Is the Real Miracle of Chanukah?
  2. Jacob's Ladder
  3. Should Politics Be On or Off the Bimah?
  4. Yom Kippur Morning 5777: 1, 2, 3 … Smile!
  5. Yom Kippur Evening 5777: Now Is the Time
  6. Make Good Art (Rosh Hashanah Morning 5777)
  7. Rosh Hashanah Evening 5777: Tevye's Other Hand
  8. The Second Telling of Our Lives
  9. The Destruction of the Temple Is Happening Again and Again
  10. Elie Wiesel Taught Me That #BlackLivesMatter
  11. A Home That's Gone: Reflection on the Orlando Massacre
  12. Because I Remember, I Must Reject Despair (Yom HaShoah Sermon)
  13. Please God, Heal Her: Judaism & Healing
  14. I Wanna Sing, Sing, Sing, Praise the Lord
  15. There's More Than One Way (P'kudei)
  16. Enough Prayers, It's Time to March (Yitro)

2015

  1. Chinese Food, a Movie, Jews & Christmas
  2. In a Place Where There Is No Man, Be One (Noah)
  3. Three Lessons of Sukkot
  4. 5776: We Are the Ever-Dying People (Yom Kippur Morning)
  5. Kol Nidrei Is Not About Promises
  6. 5776: Sometimes, Being Perfect Is Not Good Enough (Rosh Hashanah Morning)
  7. 5776: Rosh Hashanah Is Not a Period at the End of the Year; It's a Semi-Colon
  8. Deuteronomy Is Revisionist History, and Here's Why (D'varim)
  9. Rick Santorum, the Pope and the Menorah (B'haalot'cha)
  10. Strange Fire, Tragic Fire (Sh'mini)
  11. Building a Sanctuary of Identity (Ki Tissa)
  12. When Will God Appear? (Va'era)

2014

  1. What Is the Right Way to Spell Hannukah?
  2. My Homeland of Israel (Yom Kippur Morning)
  3. What's Behind the Curtain? (Yom Kippur Evening)
  4. Judaism & the Dark Side of the Subjunctive (Rosh Hashanah Morning)
  5. Look Up and See Blessing (Rosh Hashanah Evening)
  6. Thoughts on Israel & Palestine
  7. This Is Not a Feel-Good Story (Korach)
  8. We Cannot Be Jews Without Israel
  9. The Plague of Gossip (Metzora)
  10. Still Enslaved, Even During Passover: Reflections on Hate
  11. Who Moved My Matzah? (Shabbat HaGadol)
  12. Does Everything Happen for a Reason? (Sh'mini)
  13. Remembering to Forget (Shabbat Zachor)
  14. Drawing Close to God (Vayikra)
  15. Is Shabbat Really a Day of Rest? (Vayak'heil)
  16. Jews Like to Touch Things (Ki Tissah)
  17. The Best Gift You Can Give (T'rumah)
  18. Trust in God, But Tie Your Camel (B'shalach)
  19. The Miracle(s) of the Plagues (Bo)

2013

  1. Dreaming & Living: Joseph & Mandela (Vayigash)
  2. I Will Not Let You Go Until You Bless Me (Vayishlach)
  3. 75th Commemoration of Kristallnacht (Vayetzei)
  4. Is Halloween Traif or Treat?
  5. Drawing Near to God (Vayera)
  6. Journeys Are Not Only Geographical (Lech L'cha)
  7. The Comfort of Noah (Noach)
  8. Yom Kippur Morning 5774: Superman Spends a Lot of Time Being Clark Kent
  9. Life is a Pre-Existing Condition (Kol Nidrei 5774)
  10. Rosh Hashanah Morning 5774: The Mandatory Optionals of Judaism
  11. Rosh Hashanah Eve 5774: Michelangelo, a German Photographer and an Israeli Poet Walk into Rosh Hashanah Services
  12. Now Go and Study (Ki Teitzei)
  13. Justice and Justice Again (Shoftim)
  14. Preparing to Become Ourselves (Elul)
  15. Listening to the Sh'ma (Va'etchanan)
  16. Words About Words (D'varim)
  17. Sometimes We Have to Listen to a Donkey (Balak)
  18. Some Things Just Don't Make Sense (Chukat)
  19. Are We Holy? (Korach)
  20. How Do You Spell Knaidel?
  21. Oklahoma Tornado, the Pope and the Boy Scouts (Beha'alotcha)
  22. The Little Prince and the Torah (Shavuot)
  23. Choosing a Path, Choosing Life (B'chukotai)
  24. Remembering One Life, Remembering 6 Million (Yom HaShoah)
  25. Counting the Omer: Measuring Time, Measuring Ourselves
  26. Israelites' Freedom, Israel's Freedom: Reflections on President Obama's Israel Trip
  27. I Call to God, God Calls to Me (Vayikra)
  28. Enough Already! (Vayakhel/P'kudei)
  29. The Holiness of Broken Tablets (Ki Tissa)
  30. Daniel's Bar Mitzvah Video: Too Much? Not Enough? (Shabbat Zachor)
  31. You Are Talented (T'rumah)
  32. Which Hand Will You Pick? (Mishpatim)
  33. Take a Step Back: Moses, God and Tzimtzum (Yitro)
  34. Every Tradition Begins with a New Idea (Open House Shabbat)

2012

  1. Two Jews, Three Opinions … Why Do We Argue? (Vayishlach)
  2. Put Gratitude in That Attitude (Thanksgiving)
  3. Is It Two People or a Cup of Wine? The Answer Is Torah. (Toldot)
  4. They're Just Words? (Matot)
  5. Intentions, Decisions, ACTions (Pinchas)
  6. Be the Blessing (Balak)