Rabbis' sermons

Rabbi Ari Lev Fornari, Rabbi Mónica Gomery, and Rabbi Michelle Greenfield share some of their teachings--sermons, discussion notes, and thoughts--in the selections below. Most are available as web pages, but those with significant Hebrew or image components are posted as PDFs. Check back regularly for new teachings!​​

• Rabbi Ari Lev: One Thing I Ask, Yom Kippur 5783, October 5, 2022
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• Rabbi Ari Lev: V'lo Nevosh: And We Shall Not Feel Shame, Kol Nidre 5783, October 4, 2022
  
  
• Student Rabbi Koach Baruch Frazier: Rosh Hashanah Day 2 5783, September 27, 2022
  
  
• Rabbi Ari Lev: Gifts from my Nonna, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5783, September 26, 2022
  
  
• Rabbi Michelle: Creating Our Truths, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5783, September 25, 2022
  
  
• Student Rabbi Koach Baruch Frazier: Parshat Beshalach, January 14, 2022

 

• Rabbi Mónica: All Flourishing Is Mutual, Yom Kippur 5782, September 16, 2021

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: The Possibility of Truth and the Practice of Viddui, Kol Nidre 5782, September 15, 2021

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: What We Need Is Here, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5782, September 7, 2021

 

• Rabbi Michelle: Erev Rosh Hashanah 5782, September 6, 2021

 

• Rabbi Mónica: Thank You, Dark Though It Is, Parshat Vayetze 5781, November 27, 2020

 

• Rabbi Mónica: Eych Nashir: How Can We Sing in Exile?, Yom Kippur 5781, September 28, 2020

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Olam Hadash: Towards a Jewish Theology of Abolition, Kol Nidre 5781, September 27, 2020 

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: We Don't Know What Comes Next: Teshuvah, Exile, and Impermanence, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5781, September 19, 2020

 

• Rabbi Michelle: Yom Teruah, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5781, September 18, 2020​

 

• ​Rabbi Ari Lev: The Forest of Words: Meditations on the Machzor, Yom Kippur 5780, October 10, 2019

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Agudat Achat: Community as a Spiritual Practice, Kol Nidre 5780, October 9, 2019

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Deep calls unto Deep, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5780, September 30, 2019

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Teshuva and Tochecha: Tools for Generative Conflict, Yom Kippur 5779, September 19, 2018
  
  
• Rabbi Ari Lev: I Am Mortal, Kol Nidre 5779, September 18, 2018

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: What Shows Us Our Face in a Stranger, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5779, September 10, 2018
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• Rabbi Ari Lev: Why Sing?!, Let My People Sing! 5778, March 17, 2018

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: The Season of Sap, Shabbat Shekalim, Mevarchim Chodesh Adar 5778, February 9, 2018

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Soft River Your Way to Freedom, Yom Kippur 5778, September 30, 2017

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: The Feeling of Human Solidarity, Kol Nidre 5778, September 29, 2017

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Everything Is Waiting for Us, Rosh Hashannah Day 1 5778, September 20, 2017

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Heart of Many Rooms, Rabbi's Installation, April 22, 2017 


• Rabbi Ari Lev: Slonimer Rebbe on Purim, March 4, 2017


• Rabbi Ari Lev: Speak with Your Own Voice, Let My People Sing! Shabbaton, January 28, 2017

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: The Holiness of Imperfection, Yom Kippur 5777, October 12, 2016

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Matters of Life and Death:  Hearing the Call of the Movement for Black Lives, Kol Nidre 5777, October 11, 2016

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• Rabbi Ari Lev: Teshuva of the Body, Rosh Hoshannah 5777, October 4, 2016

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: The Courage to Link Our Lives, Rosh Hoshannah 5777, October 3, 2016

 

• ​Rabbi Ari Lev: Journey to the Well of Jewish Time, Erev Rosh Hoshannah 5777, October 2, 2016

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: The Call and Response of Prayer, August 12, 2016

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• Rabbi Ari Lev: Is God Racist and Sexist? Why Are We? Parshat Mattot-Mase'ei, August 6, 2016

 

• Rabbi Ari Lev: Simcha Shel Mitzvah: Joy as a Spiritual Practice, Rosh Hodesh Adar II, March 11, 2016