Rabbi Ari Lev's Sermons

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

 

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

 

• Deep calls unto Deep, Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5780, September 30, 2019

 

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

 

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

 

• The Season of Sap, Shabbat Shekalim, Mevarchim Chodesh Adar 5778, February 9, 2018

 

• Soft River your Way to Freedom, Yom Kippur 5778, September 30, 2017

 

• The Feeling of Human Solidarity, Kol Nidre 5778, September 29, 2017

 

• Everything is Waiting for Us, Rosh Hashannah Day 1 5778, September 20, 2017

 

• A Heart of Many Rooms, Rabbi's Installation, April 22, 2017 


• Slonimer Rebbe on Purim, March 4, 2017


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

 

• The Holiness of Imperfection, Yom Kippur 5777, October 12, 2016

 

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

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• Teshuva of the Body, Rosh Hoshannah 5777, October 4, 2016

 

• The Courage to Link Our Lives, Rosh Hoshannah 5777, October 3, 2016

 

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

 

• The Call and Response of Prayer, August 12, 2016

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

 

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