sermon

Kohelet said, There is nothing new under the sun. In many ways, our society is quite different than it was several thousand years ago. But…

There have been 18 school shootings since the beginning of the year. And our country has done nothing to stop them. God asks us: Where are our T’rumot?

This Torah portion features the giving of the Ten Commandments. But before that, there is a small but incredibly important exchange between Moses and *Yitro.*…

celebrate our holiday of Passover. When thinking about the injustices of our country, the intolerance, systemic prejudice, racism and sexism, it will hard to say that we are free. We are still enslaved. And I think this is worse than our Biblical slavery because in this case, we are doing it to ourselves.

In my garage, I have a box of tools. I even know how to use one or two of them.

Pinchas’s passion, however, is quite problemetic, and God’s adulation is even more so. Pinchas took it upon himself to kill a fellow Israelite and his Mideonite partner, essentially murdering them for being in an interfaith relationship.