Rabbi Julie's High Holy Days Sermons

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5785 / 2024

Erev Rosh HaShanah: May You Be Written Into the Book of Life

Rosh HaShanah Morning: Living Into Joy

Kol Nidre: Moving Beyond “There Are No Words”

Yom Kippur Day: Sacred Space: Israel, Palestine and Here

5784 / 2023

Erev Rosh HaShanah: Jewish Wisdom for Today: Belonging is Preparing

Rosh HaShanah Morning: Making the Choice to Belong to the Web of Life

Kol Nidrei: Don’t Sow Among Thorns: The Daily Work of Teshuvah Sustains Community

Yom Kippur Day: The Gates Never Really Close

5783 / 2022

Selichot Talk: Injured Pup Elicits the Call of the Shofar

Erev Rosh HaShanah: Being with Love

Rosh HaShanah Morning: Love Yourself, Love the World

Kol Nidrei: Opening the Blocked Channels of Love

Yom Kippur Day: What the Biblical “Lost Ox” Can Teach about Love

5782 / 2021

Rosh HaShanah Morning: Shmita -- Biblical Wisdom for Today’s Crises

Kol Nidrei: Joining the Call

Yom Kippur Day: Deep Time -- You are Older Than You Think You Are

5781 / 2020

Elul Teaching: What does a robot therapist have to teach us?

Rosh HaShanah Morning: Who will live and who will die?

Rosh HaShanah Afternoon: Torah Talk on “The Birth of Isaac” 

Kol Nidrei: We Didn’t Sign Up for This

Yom Kippur Morning: What to do about the Curses?

5780 / 2019

Rosh HaShanah Day One: The Story of Separation ~ The Truth of Interconnection, part I

Kol Nidrei: The Story of Separation ~ The Truth of Interconnection, part II

Yom Kippur Day: The Story of Separation ~ The Truth of Interconnection, part III